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Dramatica Workshop

Learn Dramatica in an exciting weekend workshop on September 6 and 7. Chris Huntley, Academy Award winner and co-creator of Dramatica, leads a weekend workshop designed as a practical introduction to Dramatica, a bridge between "traditional" story concepts and Dramatica's own tools for story development and analysis.

This workshop has writing exercises peppered throughout to put what you learn immediately into practice. Though many film clips are used to illustrate Dramatica concepts, the focus of the workshop is on STORY and is valuable for novelists, playrights, and other storytellers in addition to screenwriters.

Some of the topics to be covered include: creating realistic character growth, exploring the single biggest problem a story can have and learning how to avoid it, using the eight story dynamics to give a story coherence and meaning, developing solid plots that integrate character, theme, and genre, and more.

For a complete outline and schedule for this Dramatica Weekend Workshop, click here.

If you have any questions or wish to register by phone, please call us at 1-800-84-STORY.

Regular Price: $300.00
Early Registration Discount: $250.00

Got a great story but don't know where to start?

Dramatica Pro software is your creative writing partner. Create great characters. Plan your plot from start to finish. Dramatica Pro blasts away those writer's blocks. Dramatica Pro is the only story development software to receive four stars from Writer's Digest magazine.

Structure your plot
Answer Dramatica's questions about your characters and plot. This narrows down the possible ways of telling your story to the one that best expresses your vision.

Illustrate your story
Use your story to write specific examples of character arc, story goal, plot points, theme, and conflict. At the click of a button, see how your story's scenes compare to examples of history's greatest writers.

Create Scenes
Weave together all the parts of your story. Determine how elements of character, plot, and theme will be revealed to your audience. Place your examples into specific Acts, Scenes, or Chapters. Use this plot outline to write a killer first draft.

Mac and PC Friendly
Dramatica Pro works equally well on PC and Macs.

Join the Dramatica Community
Thousands of novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, and fiction writers use Dramatica Pro to perfect their story. When you write with Dramatica, you'll join a large supportive writing community.

Click on each thumbnail for a larger screenshot view.

Dramatica Desktop

A collection of 12 clickable tiles that activate the key tools in Dramatica.

StoryGuide

There's only one way to write your story -- your way. StoryGuide leads you step-by-step through the ideal path to creating your unique story. Quick Start gives you instant feedback, Advanced guide takes you from beginning to end.

Character Casting

Visualize your characters by casting them from your choice of over 500 icons. Name them from a database of over 5,000 unique names.

Build Characters

Interesting. Deep. Real. Memorable. Dramatica helps you craft characters that leap off the page and into the hearts and minds of your audience. Define the relationships between your characters by assigning thematic elements to character icons. Explore character relationships and see how they help or hinder each other. Decide what's motivating your characters and how they'll express the central themes of your story.

Story Engine

Dramatica's Story Engine takes you to the heart of your story, graphically showing you how the changing of one dramatic element ripples throughout your story and influences its structure. Explore your creative choices here as Dramatica interacts with you, intuitively changing the impact of your story on an audience.

Story Status

Responding to your choices, Dramatica shows you what other character, plot, and themes issues you need to address, and in what order, to come out with a perfectly structured story. As each stage of Story development is completed, Dramatica gives you visual feedback on your progress, staying with your until your story is fully realized.

Tutorial & Help

A complete online Tutorial nurtures you through the story creation process. Dramatica's searchable, indexed Help System provides accessible guidance instantly, while the entire Dramatica Theory Book online provides helpful background.

Theme Browser

In one place, see how all your story's thematic elements interconnect. Zoom in to focus on one area of your story, or zoom out to get a bird's eye view of the big picture.

Plot Progression

Dramatica shows you the linear act structure of your story's 4 throughlines from beginning to middle to end. Each throughline has 4 plot points-signposts indicating how the story will spin from act to act-and 3 acts-your characters' emotional journeys from one plot point to the next.

Scene Creation

Here's where you weave together all the parts of the story you've developed. Determine how elements of character, plot, and theme will be revealed to your audience over time. Illustrate how they'll show up in the story by assigning them to the specific Scenes, Acts, or Chapters that combine to make up your story's outline, treatment, or plot synopsis.

Amazing Export for Screenwriter Users

Users of Movie Magic Screenwriter can import their Dramatica story treatment directly into a formatted script. All character names and descriptions, scene headings, and scene descriptions are formatted automatically-you're up and running on your first draft!

Dramatica Pro® Reviews

“I believe there is no tool out there that allows you to skirt formulaic writing better than Dramatica.”

Michael Backes, Apple Master; Screenwriter, Rising Sun
Cofounder, American Film Institute/Apple Computer Center for Film and Video Makers

“Dramatica: Indispensable power tools for my imagination . . . Dramatica is my indispensable tool both in bringing form to my new novels and in the repair and tune-up of stories that I am revisiting. It has added a new, grander dimension to my craft. These are power tools no storyteller should be without.”

Tracy Hickman, NY Times Bestselling Author, DragonLance (series), Rose of the Prophet (series), Deathgate Cycle (series), Bronze Chronicles (series)

“The story for “Copy Shop” was in my head for 10 years. Dramatica is with me for 5 years – long enough to burn the 12 essential questions into my subconsciousness. The 12 minute film won 25 international awards and an Oscar-nomination.”

Virgil Widrich, 2001 Oscar Nominee
Best Short Film: “Copy Shop”

“I suppose subjecting myself to the process—the discipline of Dramatica—has had an invaluable consequence: I have more confidence in the final product. I know the bones of the screenplay are good because I know I made my fundamental decisions in a most dramatically informed way.”

Marc Moss, Screenwriter
Along Came A Spider, Flint

“Dramatica is a dream come true for any writer who thinks in cinematic terms, and it makes a wonderful creative companion. You cannot take your brain off it!!!”

Euzhan Palcy, Screenwriter/ Director
A Dry White Season, Sugar Cane Alley, Cesar

“Dramatica Pro guides you through the nitty gritty of creating your story. It’s a focusing tool. I’ve taken my story ideas with character sketches and plugged them into the Dramatica Pro program. By the time I finished answering all of the questions, my story is fully realized and I’m ready to write.”

Yvette Freeman, Writer/Actor
Winner—Hollywood Black Film Festival Screenwriter Award

“Dramatica is the most effective tool in the market place today for writer’s on every level.”

Bill Duke, Actor/ Producer/ Director, The Limey, Payback, Hoodlum, Sister Act II

“Dramatica Pro is a story development tool I am pleased to recommend to other writers. It can either develop a story with minimal feedback from the writer or significantly enhance an existing idea by fanning writer passion to an unexpected level. This has allowed my story development process to shift in several truly systemic ways.”

David O’Neal, Novelist, Fool Me Twice, What Goes Around, The Pact With Bruno, Choosing to Kill

“I had my pitch meeting with a producer… Everything he wanted to know I’d been forced to game out with my ol’ friend Dramatica… the program will make your job as a writer not only easier, but more fun. By the way, I got the deal.”

David Obst, Wired Magazine; Author, Too Good to Be Forgotten: Changing America in the ‘60s and ‘70s

“Dramatica is an essential tool for developing a story’s structure. I used it extensively to develop a screenplay that was awarded first place in the SlamDance Screenwriting Competition.”

Carl Weaver, 1st Place Winner
SlamDance Competition

My comedy won the first prize in the ‘Salzburg Screenplay Competition’ today. The jury said that my script was miles ahead of all others.”

Virgil Widrich, Winner of the Salzburg Screenplay Competition

“I finished the first draft story outline of a piece I’ve been working on for a couple of months. It came together exactly as I had envisioned it. While I credit myself for a large part of that, endless accolades must go out to Dramatica. The program forced me to focus on exactly what I wanted to do. It also gave me great insights as to do much of it. You guys really did a job with this program.”

Dana Cameron, Writer

”...I can say that I have never approached a book project with more confidence that I am on the right path. Dramatica Pro refuses to let me off the hook; rather, it forces me to think things through, directly and indirectly, in such a way that no avenues seem to be left unexplored. I feel certain that this thoroughness will eliminate problems down the road—problems that surely would have emerged without Dramatica Pro’s vaccination. The process also seems to be drawing from me more than I knew I had in me. That feels good, and is reinforcing as I work through my story idea.”

Patricia Sierra, Writer

“Creating characters can drive a comic bananas and I take my funny business very seriously. That’s why I chose Dramatica Pro to make my work fun. There’s only one thing missing – Comedica Pro.”

Kat Caverly, aka Shirley Kenosha, Writer/Comedian, TomKat Productions, NYC

“I LOVE this software! You and your have my deepest gratitude. That you offer different approaches to the process is extraordinary in software, period, but also, indispensable for a creative modeler like this.”

Roseanne Johnston, Writer

“Obviously I would not be writing if I had not derived a great deal of enjoyment and many productive hours from Dramatica. It is an impressive and graceful achievement.”

Derrick Smith, Writer

“I was intrigued enough by the recent write-up of Dramatica in the current issue of the Writers Guild Journal to order a copy of theory book from your company. I am pausing after just a few pages to give you this feedback: The first four pages are perhaps the most intellectually elegant profoundly reframing words I have ever read concerning the idea of story.”

Jim Boke Tomlin, Writer

“Thanks for a terrific program. Out of the box and without even looking at the manual, I used it to help me find a problem in a script I had written and optioned a couple of years ago, but attracted no further interest. Then I read the manual and have since been using it to outline a novel.”

John Michael Flynn, Writer

“I’ve tried other programs and they are all fine products, but Dramatica takes you to deeper levels… If I were to rate the programs I’ve tried, I’d give top prize to this one. I first read about it in Writers Digest and was curious since it was the only one rated ‘Excellent’ in the story development software category. Now I see why.”

Robert F.Phillips, Writer

“Congratulations on a great software!... I’m currently in the process of rewriting a script that I had nearly completed a month ago. Dramatica pointed out the weaknesses in my story structure in the first seven days after installation.”

Jan Wellman, Writer