Storyforming from a Premise

writing
#21

I spent years and years believing that the way to write a story was just drafting and redrafting. Then I realized that structuring and outlining would help, and it did – a lot! But then I got into my current phase where I end up writing and rewriting my outlines. Dramatica was supposed to help with that – i.e. speed up the structure part. I would say I’m not quite there with that yet. Now the risk is that I just spend the time encoding and re-encoding the storyform.

I think I’m getting better at the jumping back and forth though.

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#22

This is for screenplays?

#23

Novels. Does that make a difference?

#24

I think it’s easier to pare movies down for outlines, but I could be biased towards what I do.

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#25

It would be interesting to look at the differences between the two forms especially as relates to using Dramatica. I wonder if Dramatica might be even more important for novel writers because it’s so easy to get lost in substories or extraneous scenes that you love but don’t belong in the book.

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