What is storytelling?

Storytelling expresses life.

Humans have always expressed their lives and the lives of those around them in whichever way they are most comfortable with. It can be verbal like a campfire story, written like a book or a note to a friend, sang like a rap about lost love, or expressed through pictures. These are all stories we need to tell.

Storytelling is the pictures which we were not present to see. It is a snapshot in time which we just happened to miss. A perfect sunset described in detail in a story or poem can seem almost as realistic as staring at it. 

Storytelling can be the way out of an situation. Until a person discovers a way to express themselves and their problems through their own way of storytelling, then they have no way to escape and fix their problems. When their story is released, then they will feel better and may even find a solution.

Storytelling, in a more practical way, is the record of our history. From the beginning of time, humans have recorded their history, in written or picture form, which is one of the ways we are now able to see and understand the world how it once was. 

Storytelling is the way we communicate as a race. Most of our speech is a story and most of our writing is a story. So without storytelling we wouldn't have much of a written or spoken language.