Science Fiction with Damien Walter | The Rhetoric of Story : 1st Foundation @DamienWalter | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
- -The Rhetoric of Story began with a simple question - what is a story? For over a decade I had been researching story and storytelling. In 2016 I created a series of seven lectures as I travelled through significant sites to the history of story in Britain, France, Sicily and Bali. These talks became the Rhetoric of Story, my first course, which as I write in early 2022 has over 35,000 students worldwide.
As my first video production these recordings have some poor quality audio at times, for which I apologise.
This ad-supported version of the Rhetoric of Story is free to watch. Please share it with your fellow storytellers.
Follow the full course, ad free damiengwalter.com
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NOTES
Change – where all story begins and ends
The first full lecture in the Rhetoric of Story introduces the first of seven foundational elements of storytelling – change. The key ideas introduced in this lecture are:
- the quality that helped one story live for over 5000 years
- our brains make sense of constant change by telling stories
- all stories are about change, but many stories maintain equilibrium
- the different tiers of of change – physical, social, interior
- the BIG and SMALL story inside every story
- archetypal human change is the core of powerful storytelling
- we turn to storytellers to give meaning to change
- -The Rhetoric of Story began with a simple question - what is a story? For over a decade I had been researching story and storytelling. In 2016 I created a series of seven lectures as I travelled through significant sites to the history of story in Britain, France, Sicily and Bali. These talks became the Rhetoric of Story, my first course, which as I write in early 2022 has over 35,000 students worldwide.
As my first video production these recordings have some poor quality audio at times, for which I apologise.
This ad-supported version of the Rhetoric of Story is free to watch. Please share it with your fellow storytellers.
Follow the full course, ad free damiengwalter.com
#
NOTES
Change – where all story begins and ends
The first full lecture in the Rhetoric of Story introduces the first of seven foundational elements of storytelling – change. The key ideas introduced in this lecture are:
- the quality that helped one story live for over 5000 years
- our brains make sense of constant change by telling stories
- all stories are about change, but many stories maintain equilibrium
- the different tiers of of change – physical, social, interior
- the BIG and SMALL story inside every story
- archetypal human change is the core of powerful storytelling
- we turn to storytellers to give meaning to change
