Got tickets to go and see Oscar winning short Wasp with director Andrea Arnold and her team tomorrow, followed by a Q&A. It’s all part of the Folkestone Literary Festival, so it should be interesting to see what I have to do to make STOA an Oscar winner (though I guess it might just be a bit late for that now).

The writing longhand is proving very useful and I’m making huge progress on honing the Architurus story right down. Writing with a pen seems to unlock the right side of the brain more, and I’m finding it far easier to make abstract links between different aspects of the story and tie everything together in a much more interesting way.

One problem I’ve found with Dramatica (and this is not so much with the software as how I use it) is that it’s very easy to ‘paint by numbers’ as it were, treating each of the four throughlines as separate entities and ending up with four stories. Obviously you really want to end up with one multilayed story, but I found that sitting in front a screen with Dramatica and Storyview up gave me tunnel vision. Very strange.