The Power of Experience in Creativity

When you stop telling the story for this story's sake and tell it to drive home like a clear social or political message, then you're no longer a storyteller. You've become a preacher or a propagandist. People are inspired to tell stories because they consume stories. The mythological storytelling tradition is a wonderfully generative thing. But if you're insisting on a very finite point of view that the myth must convey, then variations on the myth will not be accepted.