Dramatica

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 a writing program that provides a story development environment that developes work from the initial idea to a narrative treatment. It creates questions regarding characters and plot and a guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the text including examples for other writers. Determine how elements of character, plot and theme will be revealed over time and place written examples directly into specific acts, scenes or chapters.

Dramatica - Features

Dramatica Pro is a writing program that provides a story development environment that developes work from the initial idea to a narrative treatment. It creates questions regarding characters and plot and a guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the text including examples for other writers. Determine how elements of character, plot and theme will be revealed over time and place written examples directly into specific acts, scenes or chapters.

Features include:

• Dramatica Desktop: twelve clickable tiles that activate the key tools
• StoryGuide: a step-by-step guide through the creation of a story. Quick Start provides feedback and Advanced Guide runs from beginning to end
• Character Casting: visualise characters by casting them from more than five hundred icons. Name them from a database of more than five thousand names
• Character Building: craft characters and define the relationships between them by assigning thematic elements to character icons. Explore character relationships and see how they help or hinder each other. Decide character motivation and the way that they will express the central themes
• Story Engine: visual realisation of the effect of changing of one dramatic element upon the structure
• Story Status: character, plot and theme suggestions that respond to previous choices to provide a structured story
• Tutorial and Help: an online guide to the story creation process and searchable, indexed Help System
• Theme Browser: thematic element interconnection view. Zoom in to focus on one area or zoom out to obtain an overview
• Plot Progression: display the linear act structure using throughlines with four plot points indicating the way that the story will develop from act to act and the characters' emotional journeys from one plot point to the next
• Export for Screenwriter 3.0 Users: import Dramatica story treatments directly into a formatted script. Character names and descriptions, scene headings and scene descriptions are formatted automatically
• Exporting: export a story treatment containing the scene-by-scene narrative plot synopsis or treatment into a word processor.

Dramatica - System Requirements

Mac:

• Power Mac with G3 or greater
• OSX 10.2 or higher (10.3 or higher recommended)
• 128 MB RAM
• 30 MB of available hard disk space
• CD-ROM drive.

Microsoft Windows:

• Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT or XP
• 8 MB RAM
• 20 MB of available hard disk space
• CD-ROM drive.