<HEAD> <TITLE>"Dramatica - questions"</Title> </HEAD> <BODY> <A NAME="pgtop"></A> <A HREF="indexc.htm"><Img Src="flconts.gif" alt=""></A> <A HREF="index11.htm"><Img Src="fllarrow.gif" alt=""></A> <A HREF="index13.htm"><Img Src="flrarrow.gif" alt=""></A> <A HREF="#pgbot"><Img Src="flnote.gif" alt=""></A> <BR> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="index12.gif" alt=""> <HR> <A NAME="pgbot"></A> <UL><LI>Dramatica Pro is a software program and a theory of story development. The main component of Dramatica is a guided question-and-answer system in which a story is examined thoroughly in many dimensions. The software doesn't write a story, and it can't fix a bad story, but it does cause you to think about a story you have already in mind. It helps you to shape the story more carefully than without the analysis. <LI>For example, I tried out the Dramatica software by starting to answer the questions with a well-known story in mind -- Little Red Riding Hood. After answering about a quarter of the questions available, I felt that I understood the old folk tale much better than I ever had before. Actually, I'd never really thought deeply about Little Red Riding Hood, and answering the questions led me to a deeper understanding. <LI>Going through the entire query system does take a lot of time, though. It took me about an hour to finish only about a quarter of the questions for Little Red Riding Hood. For a more complex story it would take even longer. </UL> <HR> <A HREF="#pgtop"><Img Src="flpage.gif" alt=""></A> <FONT SIZE="-2">Published by Lotus® Freelance Graphics® </BODY>