Compared to other types of storytelling

When Lance was talking about the importance of the stories being personal, he made some comparison with other stories and storytelling events. It sounds like he was referring to festival-style storytelling.

It’s one thing to go to

a storytelling event and hear people tell

little bunny fufu or

whatever it is,

and that's great,

but they wanted

the story of people's lives

This description perpetuates a common view that storytelling (outside of Moth/Carapace) is for children, as little bunny fufu is a children’s rhyme. Or perhaps this was just the first thing that came to mind. He continued:

We can all tell a story from a book

or something that we've heard from grandma.

We want to hear about you.

He implies that personal stories are harder to tell, by saying “we can all tell” learned stories. I find this really interesting because I’ve met people in the festival-style community who also believe that personal stories are to tell. But members of that community also seem to value beginning with folktales and working up to telling personal stories, which is not the trajectory a Carapace teller would take. Perhaps this statement isn’t (or isn’t just) about skill, but about the fact that only you can tell your story. No one else knows it like you do.