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Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories (subtitulos castellano)

Eva CollinsAlonso · 2.2M views · 2018-07-14 · 17:37

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Kurt Vonnegut's 2004 Case College lecture, with Spanish subtitles, in which he sketches the shapes of stories on a blackboard. He plots story arcs as good and bad fortune against time.

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Frequently recommended as a delightful, influential way to think about story structure.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 6 months · HN mentions 2019–2024

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urxvtcd · 2021-08 · Strong recommendation

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

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bmitc · 2020-11 · Strong recommendation

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.

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plussed_reader · 2024-02 · Recommendation

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]

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