Dramatica co-creator Melanie Anne Phillips documents the events that led up to her present task of creating a dynamic model of story to compliment the current structural model.

And herein lies the essence of the paradox of mind that has hung over my head for all of these years: structure gives us one partial view of a larger Truth and dynamics give us another. Neither view is wrong; each is incomplete.

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Another in Melanie's Beyond Dramatica series, this one covering recent developments in the creation of a dynamic model of story.

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The Dramatica model of the mind can predict human behavior. Melanie explains the basis for this assertion in her latest article.

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Jim Hull discusses the emerging field of Narrative Science, its roots in Dramatica and how a better understanding of both can eventually lead to greater storytelling.

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Dramatica co-creator Melanie Anne Phillips begins a new series on an as-yet-to-be-explored area of the theory: the dynamic model. The one we have now -- the one presented on this site and in the software application -- looks at story from a structural perspective. These would be the bits and parts of story, rather than the ebb and flow, rise and fall that many may sense in story, but can't quite yet define it. This series begins the process of defining this side of story.

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Dramatica enthusiast (and sometimes teacher) Jim Hull publishes a new article comparing physics in the external world with physics in the internal world of the "story mind." He presents a nice analogy to starlight and Dramatica's concepts of Problem and Symptom.

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