What's the Difference Between a Novel and a Movie Script?

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There are sort of six fundamental shapes, if you like. There's rags to riches once, a very simple basic o goes up throughout the book. Calf go o starts off, it starts off badly, and then it keeps going down. icarus rites a starts, things go really well, and then they go really bad. cinderella and edipus wrigtes o were two other stories we looked at. You can't get the final one, which i realize weer doing this because i was looking at alian and i was looking through the script, and ripley is a man in the whate might be the fourtht script version of that. Anyway.

A good story takes you on an emotional journey, with ups and downs along the way. Thanks to science, we can quantify that. Peter Dodds works on understanding the structure of stories and other strings of words (including Twitter) by analyzing the valence of individual words, then studying how they are strung together in different kinds of stories. Understanding these structures offers powerful insight into how people communicate and how to reach them. As Peter says, “Never bring statistics to a story fight.”

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Peter Dodds received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont and Director of the Vermont Complex Systems Center. He has won multiple teaching awards, and was elected a Fellow of the Network Science Society.

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