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Jul 27, 2016 24 min

Star Trek: The Case for Writing a Screenplay with Dramatica

from Narrative First: where story is always king Hosted by James R. Hull

In this episode we explore the Dramatica theory of story and how its ability to predict the intuition of a writer could possibly be the sole remaining piece of magic left on the planet. We then turn our attention to the latest Star Trek movie and wonder why they didn't use Dramatica to construct an emotionally fulfilling narrative. Also. Epic music! Links and Show Notes Links and Show Notes Operation Solace: My 17-year old son's epic Soundcloud channel. Dramatica: Secrets of the Quad: Melanie's 2-hour mind-blowing video on how Dramatica works the way it does. Storyforming Series: Brand new ultra-cool video tutorial series on how to use Dramatica to uncover a story's unique storyform Character Arc Snapshots: Short 2-minute videos that describe the deep thematic elements behind a character's "arc" Story Concepts: Articles and blog posts organized by the story concept they cover Discussion on discuss.dramatica: Writers looking to pattern match Dramatica's storyform will always fail to arrive at a satisfying conclusion.

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In this episode we explore the magic behind the Dramatica theory of story and why it worked wonders for the first Star Trek reboot in 2009...so why didn't they use it again for Star Trek:Beyond?

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