Tell stories that move hearts change minds, and make money “The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.” Francis Schaeffer Good storytelling is rhetoric. A good story, like rhetoric, informs, persuades, or motivates. This is a class on how to tell rhetorically effective stories. How to connect with, convince, convict, move, unsettle and resettle an audience. How to serve those gathered around your story with truth, beauty, and goodness. In this class we you will learn the ins and outs of writing convincing stories, with an emphasis on screenwriting. It’s important to be able to tell fundamentally Christian stories in a world that has turned its back on everything that makes stories great. Since the world has been in a story telling contest since the Dragon’s first “Hath God said…” our survival as a people depends on our storytellers being able to compete on an uneven playing field. In this class, you will learn the fundamentals of storytelling, the fundamentals of screenwriting, and the way these all apply to making movies. Come prepared to enjoy and think deeper about movies than you ever thought possible.

• Theology of Creativity
• The evaluative process. Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in motion.
• The grammar of story – Break it down to be able to build it up.
• Act structure: tool not tyrant.
• Creating protagonists
• Creating antagonists
• Writing Drafts
• Habits of a writer

Classes will be at 5pm pst in May.

1. May 7th
2. May 9th
3. May 14th
4. May 16th
5. May 21st
6. May 23rd
7. May 28th
8. May 30th

All classes will be recorded.