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What is a story?

It sounds like an easy question...until you try to answer

Damien Walter
May 17, 2023
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Ah. 2016. Back when I had hair, did not have audio equipment, and routinely sat far too close to the camera.

The Rhetoric of Story was my first course, and while it has lower production values than my newer courses and video essays, RoS is still my most popular course, with 50k+ students worldwide.

That is primarily because the course condenses 10 years o…

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