Episode 213: The Shape of Stories

Notes:

Fable opens by talking about Kurt Vonnegut’s Shape of Stories lecture. Youtube has two versions and they are:

- YouTube Video “Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories”  

- YouTube Video “Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories Feb. 2004”  

We referenced several articles for this conversation. Here they are:

- BigThink.com article Kurt Vonnegut on the 8 “shapes” of stories

- Medium.com article What Kurt Vonnegut’s Shape of Stories Lecture Can Teach Us About Writing Music

- TheStory.au article Kurt Vonnegut graphed the world’s most popular stories. Do his diagrams tell us something important about humanity?

- The U. of Vermont Paper, EPJ Data Science The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes

Books Mentioned:

- Keanu - Directed by Peter Atencio

- Breaking Bad TV Series

- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

- Hamlet by William Shakespeare

- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett

- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Music from:https://filmmusic.io
‘Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)