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1. • • Vonnegut provides us with three examples of emotional arcs: the "Man in Hole" arc, the "Boy Meets Girl" arc, and the "Cinderella" arc. In addition to these arcs, he was also said to define the "From Bad To Worse," "Which Way is Up," "Creation Story," "Old Testament," and "New Testament" arcs.
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   How did Vonnegut write a story arc?

   • In a 1995 lecture, Vonnegut chalked out various story arcs on a blackboard, plotting how the protagonist’s fortunes change over the course of the narrative on an axis stretching from ‘good’ to ‘ill’.

   Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots - BBC

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   What arcs did Kurt Vonnegut map out in his lecture?

   • Vonnegut mapped out several arcs in his lecture. These include the simple arc encapsulating “man falls into hole, man gets out of hole” and the more complex one of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.” Vonnegut is not alone in attempting to categorize stories into types, although he was probably the first to do it in graphical form.

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   How did Kurt Vonnegut explain the shapes of stories?

   • Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers,” he said. “They are beautiful shapes.” The video is available on YouTube.

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   How did Kurt Vonnegut find the building blocks of all stories?

   • Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories. Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard.

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   Is Vonnegut a beautiful shape?

   • “They are beautiful shapes.” The video is available on YouTube. Vonnegut was representing in graphical form an idea that writers have explored for centuries—that stories follow emotional arcs, that these arcs can have different shapes, and that some shapes are better suited to storytelling than others.

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   What does Vonnegut represent in graphical form?

   • The video is available on YouTube. Vonnegut was representing in graphical form an idea that writers have explored for centuries—that stories follow emotional arcs, that these arcs can have different shapes, and that some shapes are better suited to storytelling than others. Vonnegut mapped out several arcs in his lecture.

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3. bigthink.com › high-culture › vonnegut-shapesKurt Vonnegut on the 8 "shapes" of stories - Big Think

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   Jun 13, 2022 · From “boy meets girl” to “man turns into a cockroach”, Vonnegut plots out a handful of story shapes on his diagram and explains why some of these patterns keep showing up in storytelling.

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   Nov 29, 2016 · Vonnegut provides us with three examples of emotional arcs: the "Man in Hole" arc, the "Boy Meets Girl" arc, and the "Cinderella" arc. In addition to these arcs, he was also said to define the "From Bad To Worse," "Which Way is Up," "Creation Story," "Old Testament," and "New Testament" arcs.

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   May 25, 2018 · In a 1995 lecture, Vonnegut chalked out various story arcs on a blackboard, plotting how the protagonist’s fortunes change over the course of the narrative on an axis stretching from ‘good’...

7. publicspeakingmasterclasses.com › 8-story-shapes8 Story Shapes Every Storyteller MUST Know: Kurt Vonnegut's ...

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   Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Shapes of Stories. These 8 shapes are visualized on a graph where the Y-axis represents the protagonist’s fortune (ranging from good to bad) and the X-axis represents the progression of the story from beginning to end. Here are the eight shapes along with descriptions and examples: 1. Man in Hole 2. Boy Meets Girl 3. From ...

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   Jul 6, 2016 · Vonnegut was representing in graphical form an idea that writers have explored for centuries—that stories follow emotional arcs, that these arcs can have different shapes, and that some shapes...

10. www.eadeverell.com › characterCharacter Arc Plot & Kurt Vonnegut's Story Shapes - e.a. deverell

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    When and where to end a story; How to Plot a Character Arc. There are several different metrics that can be plotted on a character arc. In his humorous explanation of story shapes, Kurt Vonnegut labels his axes: G – I = good fortune vs. ill fortune; B – E = beginning vs. end; Here is his chart for Cinderella.

11. www.themarginalian.org › 2012/11/26 › kurt-vonnegutKurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Why Uncertainty Is ...

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    Nov 26, 2012 · All the recent excitement reminded me of an old favorite, in which Vonnegut maps out the shapes of stories, with equal parts irreverence and perceptive insight, along the “G-I axis” of Good Fortune and Ill Fortune and the “B-E axis” of Beginning and Entropy.