Documentation is pretty basic - and can be found here: https://platform.dramatica.com. We did update the main index page to be less marketing and more informational, to get you set off in the right direction. Dramatica is a complex narrative design system, so if you’re having trouble this would be the first place to catch up on things.
The Playbook is where we will be cataloguing and presenting narrative workflows, i.e. step-by-step tutorials to help guide you through the story development process and possibly inspire you to find new and more personal workflows along the way.
We currently have three workflows available for you:
Many, many more will be available in the coming weeks and months spanning a wide variety of use cases. You can find the Playbook here: https://dramatica.com/playbook
Audio input and auto-transcription is my favorite with this release. Sure, you could use your devices microphone input OR you could use the audio input found in the bottom right hand corner of the Narrova composer window.
To activate, simply tap and begin speaking. Narrova will capture the audio as you riff about your story. Don’t worry about stumbling, saying the wrong words, or being smart–just speak stream of consciousness and watch as the response you get back is more richer than it ever could be with you typing it all out.
While listening, if you hit the stop button, your audio will be instantly transcribed and ready for you to add additional details (either more speaking, or typing). If instead you hit the checkmark, Narrova will automatically bundle up the transcription and send it off as an instant request - which is much more PTT (Push-To-Talk) in implementation.
We’ve opened up the Plot & Players section in Subtxt, as well as the Character Arcs section. These initial big picture views into your story (found in the Forming section of Subtxt) will help guide you towards figuring out both the head and heart of your narrative.
The Plot section of Plot & Players will help you figure out the Story Goal, Story Consequence, and most important Story Drivers (Plot Points), while keeping it all aimed towards the Story Outcome. The Players section is coming soon.
The Character Arcs view shows you the Problem and Solution for both the Main Character and the Influence Character–with some affordances added to help you visualize and better understand the difference between the Change character and the Steadfast character in Dramatica theory.
The last one fulfills a big ask of Subtxt users over the years (and me too!) - which is a LIVE update of saved narrative components within Narrova saved out to Subtxt and vice versa. Similar to the integration of Narrova within the Storyform Builder, now when you discuss various aspects of your story within the context of a Storyform (either in Subtxt or in a conversation in Narrova), you can easily “save away” your work and see it instantly reflected and updated in Subtxt.
Eventually, this will likely be an automatic process where you won’t even have to think about it, but for now, just ask Narrova to save X or Y Storypoint, Perspective, Storybeat, or Overview, and Narrova will oblige your request.
Lastly, while updating and installing new Canonical Storyforms into the Platform, I could see that the PRCP values (Potential, Resistance, Current, and Power) and KTAD values (Situations, Activities, Aspirations, and Contemplations) found in the Dramatic Scenarios were off.
The Justification process in Dramatica (converting authorial intent into progressive temporal beats) is not the easiest thing in the world to both compute and evaluate, and there were some mistakes with the original rollout. Thankfully, this is a very detailed aspect of the theory and likely not used by many of you–but it’s important to me that the results are as accurate as they can be given the original intent of the theory.
All Storyforms across the entire Platform have been updated, so if you were working with them over the holidays, be sure to check in and see if anything has changed for your story.
