{"id":47,"date":"2004-03-18T01:41:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T01:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2004-03-18T01:41:16","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T01:41:16","slug":"a-ciabatta-is-born-and-dramatica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"A Ciabatta is Born, and Dramatica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baby Rebecca got the message. Congrats to Jack and Heather! Lots of pictures here<\/a>. Cal and I were rooting for you to name her Ciabatta, but Rebecca will do just fine.
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\nAnyone who’s ever thought seriously about narrative would do well to check out Dramatica<\/a>. It’s a theory of story unlike any I’ve encountered before.
\nIts premise is that there is a specific type of story, the “grand argument story”, that has a particular resonance. This type of story is a representation of a human mind turning over a problem and coming to a conclusion. It teases out all of the elements that must be included in order for a story to become a grand argument story.
\nI found it incredibly insightful. I have believed for a long time that narrative is something that is, to some extent, hardwired into us; that certain stories have special power and meaning. Dramatica is an attempt to identify the structure of those stories, so that writers can create them.
\nI won’t go into details – there are a lot of them. There’s a free-to-download Dramatica book in pdf <\/a>thats a few hundred pages long. They’re really trying to push the software they came up with for sale – the software takes the theory and turns it into an operation, asking questions and making suggestions to build up a grand argument story. The theory itself is free.
\nI find it fascinating to consider that the narrative structure that humans are attuned to is a metaphorical representation of behavioural problem-solving.
\nI’m not sure how this links to the Joseph Campbell myth-structure stuff. I think they would fit together well, but I’m hardly an expert on either theory.
\nSo. Yes. Dramatica. Check it out. Within the task it sets itself it makes a lot of points that resonate. I’m currently working through a novel plan that I was stuck on, and it’s giving me plenty of ‘of course!’ type moments, which was the goal. I wouldn’t use its approach for all my writing, but it’s a good tool for the arsenal.
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\nI really want to write a substantial response to idiot\/savant’s piece on ‘false consciousness’<\/a>, because it’s good and something I have opinions & thoughts on. But, as usual, it’s nearing 1am and I still haven’t sent out the email for this week’s Ottakars club thing. So. Sleep instead. Night all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baby Rebecca got the message. Congrats to Jack and Heather! Lots of pictures here. Cal and I were rooting for you to name her Ciabatta, but Rebecca will do just fine. ———— Anyone who’s ever thought seriously about narrative would do well to check out Dramatica. It’s a theory of story unlike any I’ve encountered … Continue reading A Ciabatta is Born, and Dramatica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}