Thoughts on Some Difficulties in Using Dramatica

This would be a good place to remind everyone of a great suggestion and/or caution given to us by Armando Saldanamora in another forum, years before the publication of his Dramatica for Screenwriters.

To paraphrase: Do not use a writing of yours that means a lot to you as the [initial?] tool to take apart and analyze, as a way to learn the Dramatica theory for writing. In fact, he then spontaneously created a fun short example using a vampire, I think, demonstrating ‘stuff’.

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