I’ve done a lot of professional storytelling. It’s a very different kind of sharing of stories than it is writing a book, or even reading a book to someone, because what’s in the book might as well be written in stone. There it is. It doesn’t change. When you’re telling a story to an audience, you watch their face. You change what you’re saying to fit the audience, or you incorporate something within the audience into the story as you’re going. And so the story gets longer or shorter because of the audience. When you’re writing, the story gets longer or shorter because of the story. It’s a very different thing.
