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      • Vonnegut posited there are five basic types of story structures: Man in Hole, Boy Meets Girl, Cinderella, From Bad to Worse, and Good News/Bad News. He plotted all stories on a grid. The vertical axis was the GI-Axis, and it ran from good fortune to ill fortune.
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  3. bigthink.com › high-culture › vonnegut-shapesKurt Vonnegut on the 8 "shapes" of stories - Big Think

    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.

  4. thestory.au › articles › kurt-vonnegut-story-shapesKurt Vonnegut graphed the world’s most popular stories. Do ...

    Vonnegut came up with eight shapes in total, and claimed that every story ever told—from the oldest fairy tales to Shakespeare right up to works of 20th-century modernism—corresponded to one of his charts.

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

    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 ...

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

    Nov 26, 2012 · Learn how Vonnegut maps out the shapes of stories on a G-I axis of Good Fortune and Ill Fortune and a B-E axis of Beginning and Entropy, with examples from Cinderella, Kafka, and Hamlet. Discover how uncertainty is the crucible of creativity and why Shakespeare told us the truth.

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  9. thenarrativepractice.com › shapes-of-storiesShapes of Stories - The Narrative Practice

    The shape of a society’s stories, he said, is at least as interesting as the shape of its pots or spearheads. Let’s take a look. Sources: A Man without a Country and Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut

  10. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 27888Kurt Vonnegut’s Story Diagrams - Mental Floss

    Nov 7, 2022 · In the four-minute video clip below, Slaughterhouse-Five author Kurt Vonnegut shows us his “story shapes”—simple graphs of plots along two axes. The labels for the Y axis run from G (Good...

  11. storyempire.com › 2021/01/06 › basic-plots-vonnegutsBasic Plots: Vonnegut’s Man in Hole | Story Empire

    Jan 6, 2021 · Vonnegut posited there are five basic types of story structures: Man in Hole, Boy Meets Girl, Cinderella, From Bad to Worse, and Good News/Bad News. He plotted all stories on a grid. The vertical axis was the GI-Axis, and it ran from good fortune to ill fortune.

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