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by: Danielle

Thank you. This was very helpful, but what exactly is investigation and appraisal and reappraisal and doubt? Is the software asking me to choose if they are investigating their relationship, doubting it etc? Thanks for any info.
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by: Glen

They are candidates for the issue and counterpoint of this throughline.

For instance, the issue will be something that both the main character and impact character value. For instance, if you choose Doubt, you are saying that they both agree that it's important to doubt, whether that means to doubt what someone tells them, doubt the official record, doubt their senses, etc. It's up to you how to interpret that.

Whatever you choose as the issue, the counterpoint will be its opposite on the theme chart. For instance the opposite of Doubt is Investigation. (Again, you choose what might be investigated.) The events of the M/I throughline will show which is better, perhaps to Doubt what you're told is true or to Investigate (gather evidence to find out what's true).

Of course, you could instead make Investigate the issue and Doubt the counterpoint. Or you could make Appraisal the issue and Reappraisal the counterpoint, or vice versa.

It helps to check the Dictionary window because Dramatica often has it's own definitions of these terms.

Hope that helps.
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by: liza

very helpful, thankyou

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