Dramatica Pro is a good system to write stories, novels, screenplays, narratives and any creative writing you may undertake. It has several features that allow you to determine and organize every aspect of your story before you begin to write. This creative writing software offers easy-to-use tools, designed to expose and perfect the art of structured and skilled writing.

It offers tens of thousands of possible story structures, which Dramatica calls Storyforms. The application walks you through making decisions to determine the Storyform you want to write. It's a step-by-step process that checks your work as you answer questions to define your Storyform.

The application helps you create archetypal and complex characters. When creating characters, this creative writing software prompts you to describe their personalities, physical traits and activities. You then designate the character you want the audience to most identify with and pick the character that is in conflict with that character.

You move on to Storyforming, or creating the dramatic structure of your stories. This stage of development is comprised of essential questions, and you're asked to make decisions about the dramatic direction of your story. The software calculates the impact of your answers based on previous choices you've made in the development process. This, in turn, determines the questions that will be presented to you, thus helping to keep focus on your chosen dramatic intent in forging your Storyform.

The process moves on to illustrating your answers and choices of your Storyform. In this stage, you write examples that illustrate the Storyform, as reflected off of the characters, overall story, impact and other elements. Storyweaving is the next step, in which you create a scene-by-scene story treatment. The result of all of these questions and steps, through which the software guides you meticulously, is a rough draft of your novel, story or screenplay.

There are three key buttons in the development process – Explain, Theory and Usage. They provide information about the writing steps as you progress through answering questions and writing your Storyform.

This writing software is designed to help you develop characters, plots, conflicts and stories. However, it does not provide genre outlines.

Tools provided in Dramatica Pro include a built-in word processor that lets you import and export stories. The software lacks a thesaurus, spell check and word count, which can be useful features in any type of writing.

This writing software does not have a standard dictionary, but it provides a glossary of narrative terms. It describes those terms and others unique to the Dramatica theory. Examples of terms defined in the glossary include protagonist, sidekick, dilemma, Storyform, motivation and more.

The built-in user guide does a good job of walking you through the Dramatica Pro process, which makes it easy to understand and use. Should you need more help, there's a FAQs section, tutorials, email support and phone support.