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Section Four

Chapter 15
Note & Sketch Development

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Dramatica for Screenwriters by Armando Saldaña Mora

Another good use of the Story Points table is in the rewriting stages.  We can keep all the material we love and fancy, yet change the structure to obtain a different effect on our story.  Want a happier ending?  A "Success/Good" finale that will brighten this dark comedy?  We don't have to scratch out the scene where the hero is condemned, just change it to another place and give it another function.  The material remains—it is the structure that changes.  And the structure adapts to whatever story we want to create with our cherished material.

Speaking of rewriting stages, let's see what Dramatica has to offer for these final phases of the development process and for fully finishing a complete draft.

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