I like to think that proto-humans learned the value of story-telling shortly after they learned the value of language. Story-telling feeds the minds...the imaginative side, the magical side, the creative side, the logical side...and not listening to stories is like denying your humanity.
Yes, today we have many ways to 'tell' a story. Video, film, language, images...all art is really a form of story-telling, just as is science. We are telling our human story, and this is why I write what I write. I want my readers/listeners/viewers to be compelled to enter another world, anoth more...
