What Story Structure Looks Like To Your Characters
03/25/17 • 45 min
It's one thing to play God when writing a story, but wouldn't it be great if you could see what the major plot points in your story look like from the point-of-view of your characters? Well, now you can.
In this episode, not only do we present our greatest impression yet, but we also manage to cover the Four Throughlines of Manchester by the Sea, speak about the objective and subjective nature of story paradigms, and lay down a detailed approach for connecting story structure to your characters.
The Dramatica Mentorship Program - our premiere service designed to give you the tools and techniques for applying Dramatica's powerful concepts to your stories.
Show Notes & Links
- Narrative First Membership special goodies for friends of the show
- The Throughlines of Manchester by the Sea the Four Throughlines for this magnificent film
- The "You and I Are Both Alike" Montage the classic Dramatica introductory video. There is a structural reason why this phrase keeps popping up
- The Incredibles Dramatica analysis of this Brad Bird spectacular
- The Roman Holiday Videocast our Dramatica analysis of this classic presented in vivid color
- Episode #33: The Most Boring Storyform in the Entire World last week's episode about the Issue of Self-yawn-Interest
- Main Character Approach does the Main Character of a story prefer to take action in the external world or do they prefer to internalize when it comes to personal problems?
- Main Character Problem-Solving Style does the Main Character of a story prefer to take action in the external world or do they prefer to internalize when it comes to personal problems?
- Star Wars the Dramatica analysis of a film I saw 250+ times on my parent's first VCR
- The Matrix the Dramatica analysis of naked batteries
- Generating Dramatic Tension Within Each Act Of Your Story: Part One how to use the Story Requirements and Story Prerequisites to generate tension in your story
- Plotting Your Story With Dramatica the series of articles on how to plot your entire story out using Dramatica's insightful and powerful story points
- Subscribe to Narrative First be a friend and join the greatest living story structure site on Earth
- The Veil Between Author and Audience key insight on the difference between Dramatica and other theories or paradigms of narrative
- Screenwriting with Outliner4D and Dramatica on a Mac our experiment with reinstalling this Windows program on our beautiful Macs
- The Plot Sequence Report articles and blog posts covering this magical report from Dramatica
- Finding the Major Dramatic Question Of Your Story instead of guessing, you can actually tie it to the deep thematics of your narrative
- Dramatica: A Fractal Model of Story Structure it just keeps going...and going...and going...
Narrative First theme by Alex Hull. Hear more on his Soundcloud, Operation Solace
It's one thing to play God when writing a story, but wouldn't it be great if you could see what the major plot points in your story look like from the point-of-view of your characters? Well, now you can.
In this episode, not only do we present our greatest impression yet, but we also manage to cover the Four Throughlines of Manchester by the Sea, speak about the objective and subjective nature of story paradigms, and lay down a detailed approach for connecting story structure to your characters.
The Dramatica Mentorship Program - our premiere service designed to give you the tools and techniques for applying Dramatica's powerful concepts to your stories.
Show Notes & Links
- Narrative First Membership special goodies for friends of the show
- The Throughlines of Manchester by the Sea the Four Throughlines for this magnificent film
- The "You and I Are Both Alike" Montage the classic Dramatica introductory video. There is a structural reason why this phrase keeps popping up
- The Incredibles Dramatica analysis of this Brad Bird spectacular
- The Roman Holiday Videocast our Dramatica analysis of this classic presented in vivid color
- Episode #33: The Most Boring Storyform in the Entire World last week's episode about the Issue of Self-yawn-Interest
- Main Character Approach does the Main Character of a story prefer to take action in the external world or do they prefer to internalize when it comes to personal problems?
- Main Character Problem-Solving Style does the Main Character of a story prefer to take action in the external world or do they prefer to internalize when it comes to personal problems?
- Star Wars the Dramatica analysis of a film I saw 250+ times on my parent's first VCR
- The Matrix the Dramatica analysis of naked batteries
- Generating Dramatic Tension Within Each Act Of Your Story: Part One how to use the Story Requirements and Story Prerequisites to generate tension in your story
- Plotting Your Story With Dramatica the series of articles on how to plot your entire story out using Dramatica's insightful and powerful story points
- Subscribe to Narrative First be a friend and join the greatest living story structure site on Earth
- The Veil Between Author and Audience key insight on the difference between Dramatica and other theories or paradigms of narrative
- Screenwriting with Outliner4D and Dramatica on a Mac our experiment with reinstalling this Windows program on our beautiful Macs
- The Plot Sequence Report articles and blog posts covering this magical report from Dramatica
- Finding the Major Dramatic Question Of Your Story instead of guessing, you can actually tie it to the deep thematics of your narrative
- Dramatica: A Fractal Model of Story Structure it just keeps going...and going...and going...
Narrative First theme by Alex Hull. Hear more on his Soundcloud, Operation Solace
Previous Episode
The Most Boring Storyform in the Entire World
In this episode we cover the world's most familiar--and therefore, drabbest and dreariest--story structure. A popular message out of America in the mid to late 20th century, this storyform speaks of the essence what it is to be Male and focused on achievement.
Show Notes & Links
The Dramatica Mentorship Program - our premiere service designed to give you the tools and techniques for applying Dramatica's powerful concepts to your stories.
- Why Daylights Savings is a Bad Idea Smart people agree
- Narrative First Membership Support your favorite story structure publication while receiving hidden insights into the magic of Dramatica
- "Nosedive" Black Mirror Episode Definitely check this one out--a complete story in an hour!
- Outlining a Television Series with Dramatica everything you need to know about planning four years ahead
- Tangled: Before Ever After I hear the story is good
- Episodes of Sex and the City and Ally McBeal with complete stories in them
- Dramatica analysis of Roman Holiday You can find links to the podcast and video of the meeting here
- Next month's Dramatica analysis of an episode of The Americans this replaces the Breaking Bad episode we were going to do. Sorry, but this kid hates spoilers!
- Dramatica analysis of The Sixth Sense group analysis of this scary film
- Dramatica analysis of American Beauty sad sack finds beauty in suburbia
- Dramatica analysis of The Usual Suspects the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that every story was a Hero's Journey
- Dramatica analysis filter Bookmark this link and use it as much as you can
- Rethinking and Revisiting the Reservoir Dogs Analysis the article where we show a more accurate way of determine the storyform for this indie favorite
- Storyforms with an Overall Story Issue of Self-Interest quick link so you can follow along as you listen to the excitement
- Dramatica analysis of Witness the "greatest" screenplay of the 1980s through the eyes of Dramatica
- Our analysis of Arrival our view of this spectacular sci-fi story
- Plotting Your Story with Dramatica our current series of articles outlining a specific methodology for developing a solid structure for your next story
Narrative First theme by Alex Hull. Hear more on his Soundcloud, Operation Solace
Next Episode
Narrative Science and the Dawning of the Singularity
Ready to have complete stories beamed directly into your nervous system? Fear not, Narrative First and Dramatica will be there to help make the transition a smooth and painless procedure.
This week we discuss the singularity and the hope that those in charge of our Brave New World know a thing or two about the Dramatica theory of story. After all, if you're going to invade the mind you might as well have a working model of how it problem-solves and justifies, amiright?
The Spike Jonze indie-tech film her takes center stage for this week's Throughline Thursdays and we answer email concerning the wacky plot progressions Dramatica offers up for some stories. Oh, and we look at the most perfect 3-Act Structure film of all time, Witness.
Show Notes & Links
- Dramatica Why not link to it? We talk about it pretty much every single day.
- Discuss Dramatica Forums official Dramatica discussion forums...for now.
- Dramatica Writers Google+ Community Remember when Google+ was going to replace Facebook? This used to be the place for Dramatica discussion. Linked for history.
- The Throughlines of her this week's Throughline Thursdays offering
- Elon Musk's Neuralink in 70 years we won't recognize ourselves
- Dramatica - Where'd the Idea Come From? one version of Melanie explaining Knowledge, Thought, Ability, and Desire
- "You and I are both alike" the classic Dramatica montage between Main and Influence Character
- The Throughlines of Manchester by the Sea from Dramatica's point-of-view, the same Genre structurally as her
- The Throughlines of Arrival similar to her with the flopping of the Overall and Relationship Story Throughlines\
- The Narrative First Throughlines Collection our archive of Throughline studies in film
- The Difference Between Main Character and Protagonist The classic 3-Act Structure, Witness, is not as perfect as many would have you believe.
- Super positive feedback we're making a difference here, people.
- Protagonists Who Act as Influence Characters the ultimate collection of the unknown who drive stories towards resolution
- Dramatica analysis of Witness the official Dramatica analysis of this classic film
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