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Story Arc Engine ✍️
A narrative building experiment on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite.
Deconstruct stories through the lens of the 5-part narrative arc ◦ Tweak any part to see how a plot change trickles down and affects the story ◦ Generate new narratives from your own plot idea. https://t.co/UnjXv4pjMK
Khyati Trehanx.com
I've been fascinated lately by Vonnegut's idea of the emotional arc or 'shape' of stories.
One researcher used natural language processing to show that 85% of 1327 books analyzed fell under one of the following six shapes 👇 https://t.co/eqM7F0Km4l
Algorithms, by their very nature, assume and assure that you would like your future to be like your past. — Luke Burgis
The three-part structure turns out to be a common refrain in scenario planning: you build one model where things get better, one where they get worse, and one where they get weird.
Steven Johnson • Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Like physics, futures studies are also intrinsically embracing uncertainty as it is emphatically underlined by Amara’s three laws of futures (Amara, 1981): (1) the future is not predetermined, (2) the future is not predictable, and (3) the future outcomes can be influenced by our choices in the present. […]
