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Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams Every Story Ever

Lowen Baumgarten

Jan 30, 2013

I met up with Agent Coulson, Rocco and some of their buddies at Fly Bar last night to hear about Coulson's trip to DC.

We were talking about photography, developing film in a dark room, and I mentioned something I'd said to Corin last week about storytelling: "Diagramming your story is sort of like developing your own film. It's probably good to know how it all works in the beginning, but pretty soon you can start doing it in your head."

Well, one of Coulson's friends, Kirk, told me if I thought I could diagram stories in my head I needed to watch this video of Kurt Vonnegut, literally taking some wannabe writers to school on basic story diagrams.

Check it out:

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