Dramatica's Structural Semantic Items

Dramatica 64 Variations (Issues)
Variation -- [Structural Term] -- The 64 items that represent the thematics under which problem elements can occur -- The variations describe the thematic message and the development of that message in the story. Variations are measuring sticks by which the author wishes his message to be evaluated. It is the discrepancy between opposing ways of evaluating the meaning of the story that creates the thematic statement as to which is the best way or that one way is no better or worse than another. There are 64 Variations in the Dramatica structure, 16 to each Class.

1. Ability 2. Analysis 3. Appraisal 4. Approach 5. Attempt 6. Attitude 7. Attract 8. Choice 9. Circumstances 10. Closure 11. Commitment 12. Conditioning 13. Confidence 14. Deficiency 15. Delay 16. Denial

17. Desire 18. Destiny 19. Doubt 20. Dream 21. Enlightenment 22. Evidence 23. Expediency 24. Experience 25. Fact 26. Falsehood 27. Fantasy 28. Fate 29. Hope 30. Instinct 31. Interdiction 32. Interpretation

33. Investigation 34. Knowledge 35. Morality 36. Need 37. Obligation 38. Permission 39. Preconception 40. Preconditions 41. Prediction 42. Prerequisites 43. Rationalization 44. Reappraisal 45. Repel 46. Resolution 47. Responsibility 48. Sec

49. Self-Interest 50. Sense-of-Self 51. Senses 52. Situation 53. Skill 54. State-of-Being 55. Strategy 56. Suspicion 57. Thought 58. Threat 59. Truth 60. Value 61. Wisdom 62. Work 63. Worry 64. Worth