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RockofStrength on June 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Rules of Storytelling According to Pixar

A very interesting theory of storytelling is the Dramatica theory of story. http://storymind.com/dramatica/

I believe the movie Contact (any many others) were written with the Dramatica template.

This area was how I was introduced to the site (I was investigating Robert Mckee because of seeing the movie "Synecdoche New York"): http://www.dramatica.com/theory/articles/index.htm

egypturnash on June 9, 2012 [–]

I'm about thirty pages into the Dramatica PDF and am finding it very interesting in how it specifically codifies some things I've observed about stories while working on my comics. This promises to be an interesting read, thanks!

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