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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.nl/users/HeliaXyana/statuses/113044214032426046">Lydia Vvinters (heliaxyana@mastodon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 16:55:50 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@HeliaXyana" title="heliaxyana@mastodon.nl"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/239304-48-20250119153753.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Lydia Vvinters" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Lydia Vvinters</a></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" rel="tag">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> What's your favourite story structure?</p><p>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.</p><p>Try to draw your life story on one of Kurt Vonnegut's story shapes: <a href="https://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ</a></p><p>Conscious beings can simultaneously be happy and sad; story structures often oversimplify such things. </p><p>Here's mine and a template:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writing" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3583278#notice-7030587">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-08-29T16:55:50+09:00" title="Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 16:55:50 JST">about 5 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@HeliaXyana/113044214032426046" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.nl via ActivityPub">mastodon.nl</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@HeliaXyana/113044214032426046">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3096291">crudely drawn Story shape chart. Good health, ill health and beginning and ending.</a></label><br><a href="https://mastodon.nl/system/media_attachments/files/113/044/201/151/050/396/original/59e0c8c72e6c113a.jpg" rel="external">https://mastodon.nl/system/media_attachments/files/113/044/201/151/050/396/original/59e0c8c72e6c113a.jpg</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3096292">empty template for the story shape</a></label><br><a href="https://mastodon.nl/system/media_attachments/files/113/044/202/515/178/725/original/264f66ff71625817.jpg" rel="external">https://mastodon.nl/system/media_attachments/files/113/044/202/515/178/725/original/264f66ff71625817.jpg</a></li><li><article><header><img height="128" width="128" src="https://gnusocial.jp/thumbnail/3096293?w=128&amp;h=128"><h5><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQConscious&amp;feature=youtu.be">Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the 'simple shapes of stories.'</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>