Most Popular Hero's Journeys According to Big Data
Most Popular Hero's Journeys According to Big Data
If you are looking to touch the hearts of many readers, big data has done some predictive analytics for you choosing the most popular story arcs.
Be wise with your story creation by using popular story arcs and save your creativity for the story itself.
H/T Gideon Rosenblatt
Originally shared by Gideon Rosenblatt
The Hero's Journey, Parsed by Big Data Analysis
They examined 1,327 stories from Project Gutenberg’s fiction collection — all English-language texts between 20,000 and 100,000 words — using three language processing filters. In the end, they found “broad support for the following six emotional arcs”:
* Rags to riches (rise)
* Tragedy, or riches to rags (fall)
* Man in a hole (fall-rise)
* Icarus (rise-fall)
* Cinderella (rise-fall-rise)
* Oedipus (fall-rise-fall)
HT Pamela Pavliscak
https://psmag.com/the-six-core-emotional-arcs-that-underlie-our-favorite-fiction-440639b76d4e#.7xkfck6l8
If you are looking to touch the hearts of many readers, big data has done some predictive analytics for you choosing the most popular story arcs.
Be wise with your story creation by using popular story arcs and save your creativity for the story itself.
H/T Gideon Rosenblatt
Originally shared by Gideon Rosenblatt
The Hero's Journey, Parsed by Big Data Analysis
They examined 1,327 stories from Project Gutenberg’s fiction collection — all English-language texts between 20,000 and 100,000 words — using three language processing filters. In the end, they found “broad support for the following six emotional arcs”:
* Rags to riches (rise)
* Tragedy, or riches to rags (fall)
* Man in a hole (fall-rise)
* Icarus (rise-fall)
* Cinderella (rise-fall-rise)
* Oedipus (fall-rise-fall)
HT Pamela Pavliscak
https://psmag.com/the-six-core-emotional-arcs-that-underlie-our-favorite-fiction-440639b76d4e#.7xkfck6l8
Tks Zara Altair. I find it interesting when common sense intuitions show up in analysis like this.
ReplyDeleteGideon Rosenblatt I do too. You'd be amazed how many story writers try to complicate things by creating "their" story arc and think that everyone should just get it. K.I.S.S. works for story arcs as well. :)
ReplyDeleteCommon sense still makes sense. :)