What Is The Story Mind?

The Story Mind is a model of human psychology that grew out of the development of the Dramatica Theory of Story, which describes the psychologies of characters. In fact, every story has a mind of its own. Its structure represents the story's psychology, its storytelling determines the story's personality.

In stories, characters portray our conflicting motivations, theme describes our value stndards, plot relates our problem solving techniques, and genre documents our moods.

By examining story structure from a psychological point of view, we can learn how to resolve our own problems and to find balance and equity between our reason and our passion.

Welcome!

Hi, I'm Melanie Anne Phillips, co-creator of the Dramatica theory or story and the Dramatica software. and I'd like to welcome you to a blog about all things Dramatica!

For more than a decade I've kept a web site on Dramatica at Storymind.com/dramatica but web sites are geared more to large articles and organized explanations., making it rather stodgy and overbearing.

In contrast, my personal style has always been more fluid and toward serendipity - following the Muse when an idea pops up as long as interest holds, be it a short trip or a long one. A blog suits itself well to this kind of approach.

So, while longer and more detailed articles may appear here (especially at first, as I import materials from the Dramatica web site) the purpose at hand is to create an open, expanding, free-wheeling exploration of the story theory and how to use the software tool designed to wield it.

For me, a theorist by trade, this is quite liberating. I hope you find it a good source of information and inspiration, and I look forward to your comments and participation.