Protagonists and Antagonists, Bad Guys and Good Guys

In this episode, I continue the discussion surrounding Captain America: Civil War focusing this time on the Protagonist and Antagonist of a complete narrative. The visual planning tool Milanote makes an appearance, along with a brand new analysis of the romantic comedy, The Big Sick. A brand new feature starts this week--The Word of the Week--where I take one of Dramatica's terms and explain the ins and outs of how it works within story. This week's word is Preconscious (starting easy!). And finally, I wrap the show up with a look at that article on how Dramatica sees the Protagonist and Antagonist of a story.

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• My analysis of Logan, chronicling the changing of the guard
• A Narrative First Membership grants you access to premium content
• Identifying the Goal and Consequence of a Complete Story covers two super important story points to improve the quality of your storytelling
• Identifying the Protagonist and Antagonist of a Complete Story like the article above, only this time about the competing forces of motivation in your story
• The Discuss Dramatica discussion about Captain America: Civil War a lot, and I mean, a lot of words about one superhero movie and Dramatica
• Milanote an awesome tool for planning out your story with the Dramatica theory of story
• Fountain Markdown markup language for screenwriters
• Why you need Quiet Time in order to quadruple your word count
• A Narrative First RoadMap helps you visualize your story in an entirely brand new way
• My analysis of The Big Sick and why you’ll laugh for hours...and then some
• The Story Limit and why you need one in your story. Audiences like to know when a story will end. Don’t let them down.
• A collection of films with a Problem of Reaction and now you can add The Big Sick to it
• Preconscious The Word of the Week a new feature where I discuss and explore one of Dramatica's complex theoretical terms
• The analysis for Zootopia and In Bruges, both films with an Overall Story Concern in the Preconscious
• The analysis page for Dr. Zhivago where you will find links to both the podcast and videocast of the Dramatica Users Group analysis of the film

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