Sign inGet started
Paper · arXiv

Narrix: Remixing Narrative Strategies from Examples for Story Writing

Experienced storytellers decompose stories into local narrative strategies and how these strategies shape higher-level arcs. This decomposition helps writers recognize patterns in others' work and adapt those patterns to tell new stories. Novices, however, struggle to identify these strategies or to reuse them effectively. We present Narrix, a novel writing tool that helps novice writers recognize narrative strategies in example stories and repurpose these strategies in their own writing. Narrix analyzes strategies in example stories, highlights them with color-coded lexical cues and explanations, and situates them on an interactive story arc for exploration by emotional shifts and turnin...

AuthorsChao Zhang, Shunan Guo, Abe Davis et al.
Primary categorycs.HC
Published8 April 2026
Last updated at source8 April 2026
cs.HCcs.CL
Embed this entry
<iframe src="https://silytics.si/embed/item/f882b7ec-a4fd-48b0-99ae-3863cc5095e6" width="420" height="190" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Silytics entry"></iframe>

Free, no tracking. More about feeds and embeds.

Silytics shows public metadata from arXiv and links to the original. Information may be incomplete or out of date. Last refreshed 17 October 2026. Licenses and terms of the original apply to the work itself. Not financial, legal or professional advice.