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Section Five

Chapter 22
Using the Z-Pattern

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Dramatica for Screenwriters by Armando Saldaña Mora

The question, then, is how to create this exact number of Events?

In its present version, Dramatica gives us the following options to create a strict number of Events that tell the whole story:

  • Sixteen Signposts (way too low for a feature film).

  • Twenty-eight Signposts/Journeys combinations (still too low).

  • Sixty-four Variations from the Plot Sequence Report (too much for a feature film).

In its present version, Dramatica doesn't have a way to accurately create those Forty-Eight Events.

Or does it?

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