Dramatica Pro 4.1

Got a story in mind? How about an idea for a story? Either way, Dramatica Pro is a great place to start. As your creative writing partner, it takes you to a special place- a story development environment where together you'll solve the plot and character problems that prevent many good stories from becoming great enough to sell.

Dramatica's StoryGuide will handhold you from initial idea all the way through to completed narrative treatment, inspiring you and supporting you along the way. It's like having a successful author as your writing partner, sitting by your side and mentoring you!

Structure Your Plot
Answer Dramatica's thought provoking questions about your characters and plot. This narrows down the possible ways of telling your story to the one that best expresses your personal vision-and prompts Dramatica to supply some answers of its own. Amazingly, it can show you which parts of your story are strong, and which need punching up!

Illustrate Your Story
Write specific examples of how each of your story decisions about character arc, theme, conflict, tension, story goal, plot points, etc. will play out in your story's scenes. At the click of a button, see how the great writers illustrated the same story points in their classic stories.

Create Scenes
Now you weave together all the parts of the story you've developed so far. Determine how elements of character, plot, and theme will be revealed to your audience over time, and place your written examples directly into specific Acts, Scenes, or Chapters. Your step outline or plot synopsis is complete, ready to be honed into a killer first draft!

FEATURES

Dramatica Desktop
A collection of 12 clickable tiles that activate the key tools in Dramatica.

StoryGuide
There's only one way to write your story -- your way. StoryGuide leads you step-by-step through the ideal path to creating your unique story. Quick Start gives you instant feedback, Advanced guide takes you from beginning to end

Character Casting
Visualize your characters by casting them from your choice of over 500 icons. Name them from a database of over 5,000 unique names.

Build Characters
Interesting. Deep. Real. Memorable. Dramatica helps you craft characters that leap off the page and into the hearts and minds of your audience. Define the relationships between your characters by assigning thematic elements to character icons. Explore character relationships and see how they help or hinder each other. Decide what's motivating your characters and how they'll express the central themes of your story.

Story Engine
Dramatica's Story Engine takes you to the heart of your story, graphically showing you how the changing of one dramatic element ripples throughout your story and influences its structure. Explore your creative choices here as Dramatica interacts with you, intuitively changing the impact of your story on an audience.

Story Status
Responding to your choices, Dramatica shows you what other character, plot, and themes issues you need to address, and in what order, to come out with a perfectly structured story. As each stage of Story development is completed, Dramatica gives you visual feedback on your progress, staying with your until your story is fully realized.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Mac

PowerPC G3 or greater

OSX 10.2 or greater
(10.3 or greater recommended)

128 MB RAM

30 Megabytes of Hard Disk Space

CD-ROM drive

Windows

Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT & XP

8 MB RAM

20 Megabytes of Hard Disk Space

CD-ROM drive

NOTE The currrent version for Windows is 4.0, while the current version for Mac is 4.1. The only difference between 4.1 (MAC) and 4.0 (WIN) is Mac OS X compatibility.