The Monthly - Up Front August 2008 :: Digital Art and Soul | The Center for Digital Storytelling teaches thousands nationwide how to edit videos and make sense of their stories. | By Autumn Stephens - 0 views
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It’s the peculiar irony of storytelling that the more personal and specific a story is, the more universal its appeal. “Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate,”
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Grounded, as our species is, in the tangible, sense-based world, we effortlessly grasp unique concrete details: a childish sketch of a castle, two beaming women in white gowns, a golden-brown blade of grass. By comparison, impersonal abstractions—dying children, gay marriage, environmental crisis—fail to gain traction on the slippery geography of human emotion, or register deeply in our memory.
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The problem is, she frets (her Southern accent riveting every ear in the room), “I don’t have an interesting story.”
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