Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories (subtitulos castellano)

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.

Not a blog post, but a piece of Kurt Vonnegut's talk randomly found on youtube had an impact on me: [VIDEO]

There's an excellent video where he goes through these [0], worth a watch if you have the time. [0] [VIDEO]

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]

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]

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.