This Free Website Uses Algorithms to Analyse the Sentiment of Your Writing

Knowing the emotional arc of your story can be really beneficial to the success of your writing.

This could be you, after using this tool, reading your new bestseller outside your new million-dollar mansion. Photo by Gonard Fluit on Unsplash

In short, I created a website that uses complex algorithms to analyse the emotional arc of a story. If you want to jump straight to it then look no further: www.ebookanalyzer.com.

If you want to find out why it’s essential, please carry on reading.

Artificial intelligence is pretty confident there is only 6 types of successful stories

You might have heard the idea that all great stories fall into 6 different emotional arcs. The idea has been credited to Kurt Vonnegut and has now been somewhat proved with data. A beautiful paper by Reagan et al. (2016) used machine learning to classify thousands of the most famous novels of all time and show just that. These story arcs are:

• ‘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).