crudely drawn Story shape chart. Good health, ill health and beginning and ending.

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   Lydia Vvinters (heliaxyana@mastodon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 16:55:50 JST Lydia Vvinters

   #WritersCoffeeClub What's your favourite story structure?

   I try to portray the life of a character, and life is inherently more random and batshit crazy than would fit inside classic story structures.

   Try to draw your life story on one of Kurt Vonnegut's story shapes: https://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ

   Conscious beings can simultaneously be happy and sad; story structures often oversimplify such things.

   Here's mine and a template:

   #writing #writingcommunity