The Secret Structure of All Stories

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When:

5:00 PM, Saturday 13 Feb 2021 (2 hours)

Where:

Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - Theatre

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WritingScienceHistory

A recent text analysis by AI found a subtle pattern in stories collected from around the world and in hundreds of languages. This supports my observation that the structures of theater, traditional and modern, from Japanese Noh plays and Chinese operas to the Hollywood 3-Act screenplay, as well as Freitag's Pyramid, and the 7-sentence fairy tale (the basis for all Pixar films) all describe the same basic pattern of rising and falling tension: the secret structure of all stories.

Manny Frishberg

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The Secret Structure of All Stories

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