Kurt Vonnegut’s Shapes of Stories

Having just studied narratives for my media class, I stumbled across this today and found it quite interesting in the way that it is a visual exploration of story structure and plot.

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The article where I found this is here.

This could be an interesting way to visualise the complexity or style of story structure whilst planning or analysing a narrative. I have to admit that I haven’t read any of Vonnegut’s work but I really admire this anthropological concept.