Interactive Playthroughs: You can now run guided, interactive sessions that walk you through story development. Think choose-your-own-adventure, but with Dramatica.
Visual Storytelling: Image generation is now woven directly into Dramatica Interactive, letting you visualize scenes as they unfold in the moment. With the new Visual Design Overview, you can set a consistent visual language for your project so images stay coherent from session to session — same story, same world, same aesthetic, without fighting the prompt every time.
Players: A new Players section brings characters fully into the structural workflow. You can define a Player’s Role, Appearance, Voice, and Bio, generate images that stay consistent with your Visual Design, and — most importantly — assign individual Elements directly to Players. This grounds Objective Story dynamics in the cast itself, turning abstract pressure points into something concrete, trackable, and embodied in the people carrying the conflict.
Plotting section complete: Weaving operations and Generated Synopses have been fine-tuned. For even more control, head over to Overviews and add the new Writing Style component to format what you get from generated synopses.
Writing Section open (All Storytelling, All Synopses, Downloads): The last section of Subtxt, the Writing area, is now open. This section gathers all the Storytelling and Synopses from throughout the Illustrating section and strips all the Dramatica terminology out, leaving just the story. Perfect last stop before getting to the hard part. You can also download them as a package for sharing or review.
PDF exports with images: Downloads (both in Narrova and in Interactive) now include related images alongside the PDF, so the package is complete and presentation-ready.
Longer conversations: Context compaction keeps extended chats fast and aligned, so you can keep working without slowing down. The process is both manual (type /compact within Narrova), and automatic when you start to get down to your last resources.
File uploads: Drafts and images upload more reliably and are easier to recall later in the conversation. Ability to toggle visibility of uploaded files in every context (Conversation, Story, and Storyform)
Storyforming indicator: It’s now clearer when Storyforming mode is active, so you know when you’re using a deeper analysis engine (and therefore using more capacity).
Blog and Documentation: We refreshed the blog and documentation resources to make guidance easier to find and follow.
Expansion Capacity Packs: Purchased capacity now carries over across billing cycles and stays available for up to 12
Also, a good time to let everyone know that we will be officially shutting down https://subtxt.app on February 17th, 2026. With this latest release, we’ve finally ported over everything that we’ve built over the past eight years, with some extra-added goodies along the way.
Thanks so much to everyone for all the support over the years, and hope you enjoy this latest release!
Hey Jim, do we need to make sure to download/export any stories in Subtxt that we want to save, before Feb 17? (I have a lot! Mostly just storyforms though, nothing added to them.)
Not necessarily - should’ve been clearer - i’ll be shutting down new signups, Muse, and new generations. You’ll still be able to download everything, so no rush!
You know what would be really helpful for me is a support “quick start” video, maybe 45-50 minutes, targeted at people who are already familiar with the theory, maybe have taken a class, have been here with the app’s various incarnations but have struggled to keep up with all the updates and terminology.
I’ve been trying to go through some of the latest videos but it’s tough for me to carve out 1 1/2 hours or put another way, if I have that kind of time, I’d prefer to use it for writing. A shorter video I could watch on my lunch hour. I have struggled over the years to use the app – sometimes I feel like every time I log in I have to try to relearn something about how the app works.
Here’s how I would use the app for novel writing and sometimes short stories:
Before I open the app I will have worked out a general idea of my OS, Protagonist, Antagonist, MC, IC and RS. There will be vague spots but I’ll have a broad idea of the arcs.
When I get into the app I want to get my storyform, get a handle of my story drivers, and map out a general idea of my signposts.
When I have that, I’m ready to go write.
I would come back to the app if I get stuck. I am hilariously consistent across every project I’ve ever used Dramatica of having skinny 3rd SPs. Then I would go in for targeted brainstorming.
Just an idea. Thanks for all you do – you’ve always been very generous with your time and your enthusiasm is infectious.
You are extremely welcome, and yes what you ask for is desperately needed!
I will try to do one that is less than 50 minutes - we have plans to do lots of shorter videos (and not just me, Chris Huntley will do a bunch, maybe Melanie!) - we were thinking even more shorter form if at all possible.
The only problem is the problem always with Dramatica is that you can’t just rifle off something in 5 minutes because it’s not as simple as some of the other ways of looking at story where everything gets all blended together up into a “story”. You have to explain Throughlines, and Context, and Perspectives…
Now that Subtxt is in Dramatica, my hope is to return to weekly Livestreams next week (or mid-Feb). Meeting with Chris next week to figure out his schedule but expect to see more offerings like this in the near future!
Thanks for the recommendations and the suggestions, I’ll try to go through your notes next week when I return for the Livestreams (or get someone else to do it!)
