Shapes of Stories

Narrative, Narratology, Fabula and syuzhet

• Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

It has inspired several interesting studies.

• Only six archetypes in stories?
• Hedonometer
  • http://hedonometer.org/movies/Pulp%20Fiction/
  • http://hedonometer.org/books.html

Toubia2021how links the shape of stories to success.

Berger2024topography analyzes college essays and argues that the students with slow but expansive narrative shape tend to do better in the college.