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Section Two

Chapter 4
Storyforming from a Premise

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Dramatica for Screenwriters by Armando Saldaña Mora

Let's do one more:

"Unconditional Sacrifice Leads To Freedom."

  • "Unconditional" as an OS Theme would connote an OS Issue of Morality seeing that: "the Story's thematic focus is about doing or being based on what is best for others" —and that gives us a nice, broad area for our thematic discussion.

  • "Sacrifice" as an OS Plot Dynamic would represent a Driver of Action, since: "in our story actions force decisions"—and the "sacrifice" actually is a major event in our plot.

  • "Leads To Freedom" as a Main Character Dynamic would stand for a Main Character's Growth of Stop, because: "regarding the Main Character the audience is waiting for something to end"—in this case, the imprisonment.

Important: keep in mind that Premise analysis and Creation aren't exact sciences.  A piece of a Premise that would seem clearly like a Character Part to an author, may look like an obvious Theme Part to another.  Also an undeniable Dramatica choice for a screenwriter may seem completely wrong for another.

Again, a Premise is a writing tool, and its only standard of evaluation is how useful that tool is to our writing.

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Now that our Premise gave birth to our Storyform, let's move to another key decision. Who should be our most important characters? Armando Q & A

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