Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories (subtitulos castellano)
Eva CollinsAlonso6 HN recommenders · 2019–2024
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Kurt Vonnegut's 2004 Case College lecture, with Spanish subtitles, in which he sketches the shapes of stories on a blackboard. He plots story arcs as good and bad fortune against time.
Frequently recommended as a delightful, influential way to think about story structure.
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7 comments from Hacker News
There's an excellent video where he goes through these [0], worth a watch if you have the time. [0] [VIDEO]
Vonnegut is really special. I always like coming back to his Shape of Stories talks: [LINK] Here's a longer one: [VIDEO] It's interesting to see the difference in him with age. He seems to giggle more as an older man.
Yes, Hero's Journey plot ( [LINK] ) is very well understood and yet continues to sell well and generally the idea of certain shapes to stories is beautifully explored here among other places: [VIDEO]
That's what I meant by presentations of his shapes of stories. There are a couple of lectures posted on YouTube. [LINK] [VIDEO] The thinking originated in his (rejected) master's thesis at the University of Chicago. Here are some photos of some of the graphs: [LINK] Even there, in an incomplete copy, there are seven unique story shapes. And there's a major difference between saying here are some shapes of some stories and here are the only story shapes.
Not a blog post, but a piece of Kurt Vonnegut's talk randomly found on youtube had an impact on me: [VIDEO]
There is a video of Kurt Vonnegut talking about story telling called Shape of Stories thats pretty good. [VIDEO]
You can find variations of this talk across his life but Vonneguts 'Shape of Stories' kept ringing in my head while going over this paper. I like the later-in-life version of the talk. [VIDEO]