Hello, I am Damien Walter. I tell stories and make ideas.

Some things I'm proudest of:

I spent the first decade of my career running literacy and reading projects in one of the UKs poorest cities.
I was a columnist for The Guardian writing about sci & fantasy books.
I've had essays published by The Independent, WIRED, BBC, Oxford University Press, Buzzfeed, SFX and Aeon magazine.
I've taught hundreds of community writing workshops and was director of the Certificate of Creative Writing at the University of Leicester.
I've spent the last few years travelling in Buddhist countries and studying meditation.

WORK IN PROGRESS.

This week I'm working on a new essay / video: KUBRICK'S 2001 AND THE FORGOTTEN PROJECT OF SCIENCE FICTION. Patron's will get to see the first draft script and argue back with me!

Two ideas that inspire me:

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." ~Goethe.

"First you jump off the cliff, then you build your wings." ~Ray Bradbury.

My best ideas on Creativity & Writing :

Only A Creator Culture Can Save Us : a short manifesto on abandoning consumer culture for creator culture.
https://aeon.co/essays/consumer-culture-is-dead-lo...

Writing Practice : why it's time to stop thinking of writing as a profession.
https://damiengwalter.com/2014/03/23/writing-pract...

The Rhetoric of Story : my complete course on the 7 foundations of storytelling.
https://www.udemy.com/the-rhetoric-of-story/learn/...

My best writing on Scifi & Fantasy :

The shattered realities of William Gibson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=qt...

Frank Herbert's Dune at 50 has life in it yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/30/fran...

Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century.
https://medium.com/@damiengwalter/transrealism-the...

Iain M Banks’ The Player of Games (why learning to win at games can make you a loser)
https://medium.com/science-fiction/iain-m-banks-th...

The remarkable Neal Stephenson interview.
https://damiengwalter.com/2014/05/07/nealstephenso...

Exploration and Culture :

Digital nomads are a 21st century counterculture.
https://medium.com/@damiengwalter/slouching-toward...

How the Alt-Right invaded geek culture.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/how-the-alt-r...

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