Thursday, July 7, 2016

Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling



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.

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