Dramatica Dictionary
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Vocabulary
Grammar
Dramatica's terminology
has its own grammar with structures, designations, and usages which are
reflected in the vocabulary listings. The individual Vocabulary listings
are constructed as follows:
Example:
The types of items which will be noted in the Vocabulary references include:
Structural Semantic items:
[Classes]
The 4 basic areas
a story can affect (Universe, Physics, Psychology, Mind).
[Types]
The 16 basic categories
of what can be seen from a specific point of view or Class.
[Variations]
The 64 terms which
describe the thematic message and its development within a story as
well as the ways of evaluating this message (semantic items).
[Elements]
The 64 descriptions
which represent the highest resolutions of approaches and attitudes
required to solve a story's problem (semantic items).
Story
Points items:
[Overview Appreciations]
Items relating to
the widest appreciation of your entire story, including the Character
and Plot Dynamics which describe its dramatic mechanism and basic feel.
[Character Dynamics]
Items relating to
your Main Character's essential nature, behaviors, and attitudes.
[Plot Dynamics]
Items relating to
the entire story (both Objective and Subjective Story) in terms of the
forces that drive the plot forward and the outcome to which they lead.
[Structural
Items]
Items relating to
the thematic arenas to be emphasized in a particular Storyform, focusing
on goals, events, and activities.
[Archetype]
A specific type
of character reflecting one of eight quintessential arrangements of
64 Characteristics required to solve a story's problem.
[Dynamic Pairs]
Implied by every
term is a specific term that is its reciprocal. Together they create
a paired unit where the presence or absence of one affects the presence
or absence of the other. Every term that is a structural semantic item
is part of a dynamic pair.
[Storyform]
The skeletal blue
print of appreciations that are at work in any single story. It contains
the appreciations at work in the story which are independent of how
an author chooses to illustrate them.
[Throughlines]
The story appreciations
that are developed from the four distinct perspectives common to all
stories (the Objective Story, Subjective Story, Main Character, and
Obstacle Character perspectives) create a line of observations, from
each of those points of view, which can be followed through the course
of the story. These are called the throughlines, one throughline for
each perspective.
[Storyforming]
Determining the
appreciations that will be explored in a story, the perspectives from
which they will be explored, and the order in which these explorations
will occur within the world of a story is called Storyforming. This
is independent of any Storytelling and instead deals with ordering the
pieces common to all stories.
[Storytelling]
Illustrating a storyform
with the cultural signs and artistry that an author feels are appropriate
to his story.
[Storyweaving]
Combining the Storytelling
of a story with its Storyform.
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