Dramatica: The Lost Theory Book

by Melanie Anne Phillips

From the "Before the final version of “Dramatica – a New Theory of Story” there was an earlier draft that contained unfinished concepts and additional theory that was ultimately deemed “too complex”. As a result, this material was never fully developed, was cut from the final version of the book, and has never seen the light of day — until now! Recently, a copy of this early draft surfaced in the theory archives. The following are excerpts from this “lost” text." Included in this edition - 24 new archetypal characters beyond Dramatica's "official" 8 archetypes, an exploration of the character justification process, exploring the chemistry of characters, plus alternate explanations of the Story Mind concept, origins of the Story Mind, Objective and Subjective Characters and more!

Genres: Writing

118 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 23, 2013

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm grateful for the publication of these shorter but no-less-dense collections of supplemental material to the two main Dramatica texts. Most valuable in this one is Phillips's full explication of the archetypal elements in the original Star Wars characters. There's much else of value here, however. Dramatica story theory is difficult to wrap your head around. Each of these supplements, just by discussing some aspect of Story from a different angle, or in more detail, has given me several oh-now-I-get-it moments.