# How Do You Use a Quad to Write a Short Story?

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**Category:** Dramatica Theory\
**Created:** [September 22, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/how-do-you-use-a-quad-to-write-a-short-story/3110 "2020-09-22T23:34:57Z")\
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> [@SharkCat](#):
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> I keep seeing generally what I want to do, but I can’t make the pieces fit together when it comes to actually plotting something. There are always logic problems.

I would try first to find an issue for your plot-idea. Then you could try how the elements fit. Gists are helpful in that part of the process.

Here is an example for a Dilbert Comic I just googled:

 ![dilbert](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/uploads/dramatica/original/2X/7/7f22d0a539df8ccec8d011c3ea4d093b81a750b1.png)

Deficiency

Slide 1 - Figuring Out Something’s Likeliness (Possibility)  
Slide 2 - Offering an Estimation for Something (Evalutaion)  
Slide 3 - Being Improbable (Probability)  
Slide 3 - Considering Something Again (Revelatuation)

Edit: Sometimes starting with a Gist/Element also works. By picking an Element you get 4 topics you could chose from.

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