The Most Boring Storyform in the Entire World

In this episode we cover the world's most familiar--and therefore, drabbest and dreariest--story structure. A popular message out of America in the mid to late 20th century, this storyform speaks of the essence what it is to be Male and focused on achievement.

Show Notes & Links

The Dramatica Mentorship Program - our premiere service designed to give you the tools and techniques for applying Dramatica's powerful concepts to your stories.

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• Tangled: Before Ever After I hear the story is good


• Episodes of Sex and the City and Ally McBeal with complete stories in them


• Dramatica analysis of Roman Holiday You can find links to the podcast and video of the meeting here


• Next month's Dramatica analysis of an episode of The Americans this replaces the Breaking Bad episode we were going to do. Sorry, but this kid hates spoilers!


• Dramatica analysis of The Sixth Sense group analysis of this scary film


• Dramatica analysis of American Beauty sad sack finds beauty in suburbia


• Dramatica analysis of The Usual Suspects the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that every story was a Hero's Journey


• Dramatica analysis filter Bookmark this link and use it as much as you can


• Rethinking and Revisiting the Reservoir Dogs Analysis the article where we show a more accurate way of determine the storyform for this indie favorite


• Storyforms with an Overall Story Issue of Self-Interest quick link so you can follow along as you listen to the excitement


• Dramatica analysis of Witness the "greatest" screenplay of the 1980s through the eyes of Dramatica


• Our analysis of Arrival our view of this spectacular sci-fi story


• Plotting Your Story with Dramatica our current series of articles outlining a specific methodology for developing a solid structure for your next story

Narrative First theme by Alex Hull. Hear more on his Soundcloud, Operation Solace