Survival and Storytelling
MoorishGirl is a literary weblog that I’ve been following for a while now. I like it because it is full of ideas, while remaining accessible, and interesing, generally. Today’s post is by a new writer for the blog named John Cottle, who joins MoorishGirl on the roster. John writes about Storytelling as a Survival Skill, as an observation, that storytelling is probably hardwired into our instincts as aprt of what helps us survive.
I would be interested to read comments on how or whether today’s storytelling is in keeping with that aspect of it. How is it that storytelling realtes to our survival now, today? My writing professor tells me frequently that storytelling is a survival skill, and he urges me to bring my own writing in line with that, or to write with an awareness of it, but I don’t quite think I’m ready for that jsut yet. I’m still confused about what it means.