Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of StorytellingData Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories. Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of storie
