During our time at film school and especially during the development of DramaQueen we have studied and explored dramaturgy – the art of dramatic storytelling – in fine detail. We’ve ended up with a lot of notes and decided to make them available to all those who’re interested. That’s why we’re setting up a DramaWiki working through all storytelling themes step by step. Starting now we will continuously post new categories – the wiki will grow from week to week. You can also subscribe to DramaWiki via RSS-Feed.
The first DramaWiki article will – naturally – deal with the nature of dramaturgy. What are the inner workings of a story? What constitute its narrative power? The good thing about it is: it servers only the story and its writer’s intentions!
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BETA 10
Our international beta-launch now includes an English-language version! The software adapts to the computer’s system language. If your computer runs in English, DramaQueen will run in English as well. (The download contains the English and German DramaQueen translations, other languages are not yet available.)
BETA 8
BETA 8 now offers for the first time:
– a tidy surface
– an automatic update feature
– a strongly improved performance
– the one-month beta-phase extension
Tidy surface: With flexibly hidden and displayed buttons the interface now offers a clear and focused simplicity; features are dynamically displayed on demand. Furthermore, the MacOS version contains a modern unified toolbar.
DramaQueen for novel writers?
There have been several suggestions to open DramaQueen to novel writers. There’s a little discussion about this developing in the comment section at the end of our feature page.
Our ‘home’ is filmmaking – therefore we’ve developed DramaQueen for filmmakers – and this will remain our first priority. At this point we’re working exclusively towards accomplishing our 1.0-version for the development and writing of film scripts, meeting all requests and requirements. In the medium-run we are open to a possibly developing call for a prose-version within the community. (But we’d like to stress that this is not going to happen very soon as our current primary concern is to focus on scriptwriting and film).
That’s why we’d like to use this space to collect feedback and swap ideas with prose writers. Since we’ve only got personal prose writing experience we’d be very interested in some sort of ‘wish list’ regarding which adaptations and features would be especially useful for novel and short story writing and what these could look like. We’ve already received some specific implementation ideas for DramaQueen PROSE: suggestions like ‘chapter’ structuring, linked note-boxes for individual chapters, formatting in standard pages or a form of scope- and workload management.
Should there be any other ideas, please, add them via the comment feature at the bottom. It would be great to create a shared vision of active prose writers that will eventually become a practical and inspiring working tool! (Of course, it is also possible to write to us directly, if that’s what you prefer!)
BETA 7
DramaQueen BETA 7 got released just in time for Christmas!
An overview of the major BETA 7 improvements:
New export features:
There are new export options and the export quality has been strongly improved:
• The user can now not only export scripts but also export the synopsis and treatment into all available file formats.
• The export of Word (.docx), Word 97-2003 (.doc) as well as Rich Text Format now reaches very high standards: The exported file almost matches the DramaQueen original. This has been a significant step towards our goal to make DramaQueen an open interface for all text formats.
Drag&Drop of texts is now possible:
Selected texts can now be moved via Drag&Drop:
• Within the text-panel
• Between different open text-panels
• Between DramaQueen and other applications like Word, LibreOffice etc.
New right-click features for your mouse:
• for the outline-panel
• for the text-panel
