Kurt Vonnegut on the 8 “Shapes” of Stories
So let’s unpack this.
Tim Urban • A Story of Stories
dissecting it into its various movements? A journey into the science of storytelling reveals the truth of such recipes. Most turn out to be just variations on the standard five-act plot which is successful not because of some secret cosmic truth, or any universal law of storytelling, but because it’s the neatest way of showing deep character
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Using the Past to Divine the Future (aka the Plot)