Dramatica Pro® Reviews
“Dramatica Pro is the ultimate creative writing companion and our “TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award” Winner. This program is stacked with great features and allows you to determine and organize every aspect of your story before you ever begin to write. You can easily switch between different story guide paths, allowing you to achieve your maximum writing potential. Write Brothers Inc. designed this software with the serious writer in mind, and it shows—Dramatica Pro has more practical features than any other writing product we reviewed.”
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“I believe there is no tool out there that allows you to skirt formulaic writing better than Dramatica.”
Michael Backes, Apple Master; Screenwriter, Rising Sun
Cofounder, American Film Institute/Apple Computer Center for Film and Video Makers
“Dramatica: Indispensable power tools for my imagination . . . Dramatica is my indispensable tool both in bringing form to my new novels and in the repair and tune-up of stories that I am revisiting. It has added a new, grander dimension to my craft. These are power tools no storyteller should be without.”
Tracy Hickman, NY Times Bestselling Author, DragonLance (series), Rose of the Prophet (series), Deathgate Cycle (series), Bronze Chronicles (series)
“The story for “Copy Shop” was in my head for 10 years. Dramatica is with me for 5 years – long enough to burn the 12 essential questions into my subconsciousness. The 12 minute film won 25 international awards and an Oscar-nomination.”
Virgil Widrich, 2001 Oscar Nominee
Best Short Film: “Copy Shop”
“I suppose subjecting myself to the process—the discipline of Dramatica—has had an invaluable consequence: I have more confidence in the final product. I know the bones of the screenplay are good because I know I made my fundamental decisions in a most dramatically informed way.”
Marc Moss, Screenwriter
Along Came A Spider, Flint
“Dramatica is a dream come true for any writer who thinks in cinematic terms, and it makes a wonderful creative companion. You cannot take your brain off it!!!”
Euzhan Palcy, Screenwriter/ Director
A Dry White Season, Sugar Cane Alley, Cesar
“Dramatica Pro guides you through the nitty gritty of creating your story. It’s a focusing tool. I’ve taken my story ideas with character sketches and plugged them into the Dramatica Pro program. By the time I finished answering all of the questions, my story is fully realized and I’m ready to write.”
Yvette Freeman, Writer/Actor
Winner—Hollywood Black Film Festival Screenwriter Award
“Dramatica is the most effective tool in the market place today for writer’s on every level.”
Bill Duke, Actor/ Producer/ Director, The Limey, Payback, Hoodlum, Sister Act II
“Dramatica Pro is a story development tool I am pleased to recommend to other writers. It can either develop a story with minimal feedback from the writer or significantly enhance an existing idea by fanning writer passion to an unexpected level. This has allowed my story development process to shift in several truly systemic ways.”
David O’Neal, Novelist, Fool Me Twice, What Goes Around, The Pact With Bruno, Choosing to Kill
“I had my pitch meeting with a producer… Everything he wanted to know I’d been forced to game out with my ol’ friend Dramatica… the program will make your job as a writer not only easier, but more fun. By the way, I got the deal.”
David Obst, Wired Magazine; Author, Too Good to Be Forgotten: Changing America in the ‘60s and ‘70s
“Dramatica is an essential tool for developing a story’s structure. I used it extensively to develop a screenplay that was awarded first place in the SlamDance Screenwriting Competition.”
Carl Weaver, 1st Place Winner
SlamDance Competition
My comedy won the first prize in the ‘Salzburg Screenplay Competition’ today. The jury said that my script was miles ahead of all others.”
Virgil Widrich, Winner of the Salzburg Screenplay Competition
“I finished the first draft story outline of a piece I’ve been working on for a couple of months. It came together exactly as I had envisioned it. While I credit myself for a large part of that, endless accolades must go out to Dramatica. The program forced me to focus on exactly what I wanted to do. It also gave me great insights as to do much of it. You guys really did a job with this program.”
Dana Cameron, Writer
”...I can say that I have never approached a book project with more confidence that I am on the right path. Dramatica Pro refuses to let me off the hook; rather, it forces me to think things through, directly and indirectly, in such a way that no avenues seem to be left unexplored. I feel certain that this thoroughness will eliminate problems down the road—problems that surely would have emerged without Dramatica Pro’s vaccination. The process also seems to be drawing from me more than I knew I had in me. That feels good, and is reinforcing as I work through my story idea.”
Patricia Sierra, Writer
“Creating characters can drive a comic bananas and I take my funny business very seriously. That’s why I chose Dramatica Pro to make my work fun. There’s only one thing missing – Comedica Pro.”
Kat Caverly, aka Shirley Kenosha, Writer/Comedian, TomKat Productions, NYC
“I LOVE this software! You and your have my deepest gratitude. That you offer different approaches to the process is extraordinary in software, period, but also, indispensable for a creative modeler like this.”
Roseanne Johnston, Writer
“Obviously I would not be writing if I had not derived a great deal of enjoyment and many productive hours from Dramatica. It is an impressive and graceful achievement.”
Derrick Smith, Writer
“I was intrigued enough by the recent write-up of Dramatica in the current issue of the Writers Guild Journal to order a copy of theory book from your company. I am pausing after just a few pages to give you this feedback: The first four pages are perhaps the most intellectually elegant profoundly reframing words I have ever read concerning the idea of story.”
Jim Boke Tomlin, Writer
“Thanks for a terrific program. Out of the box and without even looking at the manual, I used it to help me find a problem in a script I had written and optioned a couple of years ago, but attracted no further interest. Then I read the manual and have since been using it to outline a novel.”
John Michael Flynn, Writer
“I’ve tried other programs and they are all fine products, but Dramatica takes you to deeper levels… If I were to rate the programs I’ve tried, I’d give top prize to this one. I first read about it in Writers Digest and was curious since it was the only one rated ‘Excellent’ in the story development software category. Now I see why.”
Robert F.Phillips, Writer
“Congratulations on a great software!... I’m currently in the process of rewriting a script that I had nearly completed a month ago. Dramatica pointed out the weaknesses in my story structure in the first seven days after installation.”
Jan Wellman, Writer
