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Dramatica
Dictionary
H
Help -- [Element]
-- dyn.pr. Hinder<--> Help -- a direct assistance to
another's effort to achieve their goal -- The Help characteristic assists
another's efforts. This can be a real boon to someone struggling to achieve.
Sometimes, however, someone doesn't want any help. He either wants to
do it on his own or what he is trying to do has been misread by the character
representing the Help characteristic who is actually hindering him. Did
you hear the one about the Boy Scout who helped the little old lady across
the street and then she bashed him with her handbag because she had been
waiting for a bus? -- syn. aid, assist, support, bolster, abet
Hinder -- [Element]
-- dyn.pr. Hinder<-->Help -- a direct detraction from
another's effort to achieve their goal -- The Hinder characteristic strives
to undermine another's efforts. This might be seen as a negative, as it
often is. But sometimes a character functions to hinder an "evil"
character, disrupting his plans. Hinder merely indicates the effect on
the plans not whether that is a good or bad thing. -- syn. retard,
obstruct, impede, fetter, undermine, block, burden, encumber, thwart
Hope -- [Variation]
-- dyn.pr. Dream<-->Hope -- a desired future if things
go as expected -- Hope is based on a projection of the way things are
going. When one looks at the present situation and notes the direction
of change, Hope lies somewhere along that line. As an example, if one
is preparing for a picnic and the weather has been sunny, one Hopes for
a sunny day. If it was raining for days, one could not Hope but only Dream.
Still, Hope acknowledge that things can change in unexpected ways. That
means that Hoping for something is not the same as expecting something.
Hope is just the expectation that something will occur unless something
interferes. How accurately a character evaluates the potential for change
determines whether he is Hoping or dreaming. When a character is dreaming
and thinks he is Hoping, he prepares for things where there is no indication
they will come true. -- syn. desired expectation, optimistic anticipation,
confident aspiration, promise, encouraging outlook
How Things Are
Going (a.k.a. Progress) -- [Type] -- dyn.pr. Future<-->How
Things Are Going -- the way things are going; progress -- How Things Are
Going concerns itself with change -- what direction and how fast? It is
not so important where things were, are, or will be, but rather how the
struggle between inertia and change seesaws over the course of the story.
-- syn. flowing, advancing, proceeding, moving forward, developing
step by step, graduated, staging, successive, procession, the way things
are going
Hunch -- [Element]
-- dyn.pr. Theory<-->Hunch -- a conclusion based on
intuition -- A Hunch is an understanding arrived at by circumstantial
evidence. The phrase "where there's smoke, there's fire" describes
the concept. The advantage is that when evidence mounts, even without
direct connections, one may draw an analogy that has a substantial likelihood
of being correct as in "I've seen that pattern before!" Of course,
a Hunch is merely a suspicion. The danger is acting upon it as if it were
fact. -- syn. intuition, premonition, impression, suspicion
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