Writer's DreamKit 4 Win/Mac | 
 enlarge | From: Write Brothers
Category: Software
List Price: $59.95
Buy New: $29.25
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 969
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows 98, Mac Os X, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 1.4
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 1wd0041
UPC: 705868060059
EAN: 0705868062473
ASIN: B000I8FADG
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New language features like Term Swaps and Impulsive Responses, plus many more | | • | Create your own unique scenes and illustrate your story points with character arc, theme, conflict, tension and plot points | | • | In-depth breakdowns of over 60 films, novels, plays, and short stories offer guidance and inspiration | | • | StoryGuide Paths take writers step-by-step through the writing process, from initial idea to finished treatment | | • | New structure templates enhance the writing experience by giving practical suggestions |
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Product Description
The Dramatica Writer's Dream Kit helps you create the story floating around in your head. It asks thought-provoking questions about your characters and plot, helping you find your voice as a writer. Realize your Personal vision and unlock the strengths of your writing to create a classic story! Pre-built dramatic structures for your novel, screenplay, or short story -- complete with instructions
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Challenging to use December 4, 2008
David L. Smith (Rochester, MN United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This software does provide a framework to organize and expand your story ideas but the framework feels a little too rigid as it forces stories down a canned path after a few preliminary questions.
The guided mode took me through the increasingly complex process. At first it was great, helping me flesh out my characters and challenging me with questions about their motivation. Once I got to the part were you outline scenes to mesh your idea with the prefabricated story arc it started to irritate rather than help me.
All the character and story information you enter is stored in several disjoint views making it hard to print out a report that showed the flow of what you had input. I like using a word processor for writing my stories and typing my work into text boxes without so much as a spell checker bothered me as well.
Finally it saves everything you enter in a proprietary binary file format which makes it difficult to pick up the outline and start working with it in a standard word processor.
 Terrible Software Misleading Description April 18, 2008
Astrocloud (Phoenix, AZ USA)
This was given to me as a gift in order to help me write short stories. There was really nothing to this software except some hack's cliched views on what story development should be. This is not only a waste of money (in my case it was a gift) -this is a waste of time for anyone trying to figure it out.
A WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME April 10, 2008
Warren Thompson
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased the product two years ago when I was drafting my novel. I went through the menus and tried to use them to outline my story and characters... my head still hurts. I got some index cards and outlined each scene, character, narration and a year later self-published my novel. To this day I look at the cover box of this product and shake my head...then I suddenly stop, because I remember it makes my head hurt even more.
For theorist only January 12, 2008
Lab Jenkins (Sugar Land, TX United States)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This will hurt your brain. A detailed book needs to come with the software. It's too complicated and confusing. Don't bother with this if you use your basic instinct to write stories. Otherwise, you'll have to learn a whole new way of thinking just to enter a character description. I gave up working with this software in less than a week. Save your money for something more productive.
A complete waste of my time and money January 9, 2008
Liz Lynch (NY)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this hoping to use it as an editing tool for my writing. It is not at all what the description purports it to be. It has an extremely long learning curve and the user is expected to plug into the software writer's idea of novel creation, rather than provide tools of support to enhance or streamline the writing experience. The clipart employed for distinguishing the characters is completely hideous. I don't know who this product is intended for, but in my opinion, the description of the software's intended purpose is completely misleading. At the risk of sounding cliche, I would still say that this is a nightmare rather than a dream.
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