Really I would think the meaning (or lack thereof) of life and the meaning that Dramatica offers would be two different types of meaning. One refers to a purpose or a lasting effect, and one refers to solutions to problems. Maybe that’s why I think I’ve seen (or read) where Mr. Hull claims he says that as a joke. But that’s probably getting above my head.
With that in mind, this next question is not meant to be argumentative, merely inquisitive. How would you explain the supposedly predictive powers of Dramatica in real world situations? I’m thinking here of the article about how ESPN (I think it was) had Dramatica applied to their business model and received a supposedly accurate prediction about their future sometime before it played out. (2 yrs stands out in my mind but not sure if that’s correct).
If “life is life” is to say that things that happen are neither good nor bad nor successes nor failures and only perceived as such by people (I may be putting words in your mouth, i apologize if this is the case), then it’s very interesting to consider why we would see the events leading up to something as following a certain path-that is, following one of the storyforms that leads to, say, a Success/Good ending for an event that we perceive to be a success and a good thing-and that any time we see a certain series of events, like the ones leading to a Success/Good storyform, we would then see the outcome as a success and as good presumably regardless of what the outcome is, for that is the only way I can currently conceive of a narratively meaningful theory having predictive power in a narratively meaningless world.
( I’m sure I’m making some leaps in there I shouldn’t, but I guess it’s just a bunch of meaningless pondering 
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