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Section Three

Chapter 12
Exposing Character Events

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Dramatica for Screenwriters by Armando Saldaña Mora

Chapter 12

Exposing Character Events:
Incorporate Your Characters Into Your Story

Writing with Dramatica is a process of gradual liberation.  Our characters usually start imprisoned in small, abstract concepts like "Motivation of Consider," or "Purpose of Knowledge."  From there, we illustrate those concepts to release our characters from the abstract realm.  We give them relationships to set them free of their individual prisons, and we describe the relationships' interactions to bring our characters into the world, to turn those cold, abstract elements into scene material.

At the end of the process, our characters live in illustrated interactions like this:

"Suze considers going after the killer by herself, but Lieutenant Washington struggles to make her reconsider."

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