Hey Mike,
Thanks for the heads up! Unfortunately I’m not able to afford another class right now
I meant to tell you that I heard your story on Holly’s podcast (cool!) and now I’m listening to that podcast, which is great. I’ve read a couple of her books now, which I think I first heard about on these forums.
I’ve been struggling hard with this over the last few days. Thanks to @jhull and Subtext I finally have a strong outline, but I’ve been really have problems moving forward with the draft. I’m still diagnosing the problem – I think it has something to do with trying to shoehorn pre-existing material into the draft, so I’m (once again) backing up a few thousand words in the hopes that I can make it all work.
I am interested in finding ways to make other tools work with Dramatica (as necessary). Holly is great at the “muse” stuff, and her approach reminds me a bit of Melanie’s Storyweaver stuff (I don’t own Storyweaver, but I’ve read a couple of Melanie’s books).
Another one I keep chewing over and may post another question on eventually is the possible relationship between the scene/sequel method and Dramatica’s approach to scenes. In short, I suspect that (as usual) Dramatica is more precise but Swain is more user-friendly. Anyway, more on that at some point.
Can’t wait to read these!