What is Dramatica -- REALLY!!

An article I wrote on October 26, 1993 explaining our early work on Dramatica Theory

What is Dramatica -- REALLY!!

All self aware minds work in the same patterns. They have the same points of view and understandings available to them. Personal experiences put different input to those points of view creating different values to the understandings. So minds don't differ in their operating system, only in the software that is running on it.

Dramatica has mapped out this intrinsic operating system using fractal patterns, non-linear equations, chaos theory, as well as new means of appreciating systems that are unique to Dramatica. When views with these tools, the reason for Characters, Themes, Plots, Acts and Scenes becomes clear: they all represent nodal points in the spatial and temporal processing of the Story Mind. The specific story that is being told is the software that is loaded into the Story Mind's operating system.

Dramatica allows an author to set values in the Story MInd - values that create justification and inequities. The unfolding of a story is the path by which the Story Mind attempts to rid itself of inequities and shake itself free of justifications. Sometimes the Story Mind can accomplish this and sometimes not. All the specifics are interrelated so that a change in Character (representing a point of view of the Story Mind) will have an effect upon the plot (representing a methodology of the Story Mind).

When all is said and done, Dramatica allows an author to document a single problem or inequity completely and move an audience to understand the impact and outcome of such an imbalance.