Are Story tellers and writers the same?

Are you a story teller; or are you a Writer; or they just the same comprehending colloquial ideology? Bored are you, already? 

Have you ever thought as a writer, reader or both are you a story teller?
Have it ever occur to you as thinker, orator, or say as a poet, are you a story teller?
Have you ever had dreams, sequences after sequences, finding yourself romancing (for some the instances may be bromancing or sizzling on the grooves of sisterhood, depending on how you wish to fantasise and imagine), that has helped you to pen or a nibble of thought, and does this make you a randomised muser or are you a story teller?

“How are story tellers different from writers?”, “Do you have to be a good story teller to be a writer?”, “And are all writers good story tellers?” 

With these few major bits to solve this pertinent question that peeks into to all minds once in a while, I decided to outpour my understanding of this entire notion of storytelling.  Yes, the previous statement sounds a bit jargonised in its own way of representation, but that’s what writing is all about. To be honest to you, it’s all about scribblings down your thoughts in a thread-like or web-entangled fashion and drafting it presentably. It’s all about making it look like a product of an effortless chiselled stuff. See I could have done it again. By constructing complicated sentences, Storytelling is about simplying your thoughts and making it resonates along with every section of your audiences. Some may like it, some may revert to it, but your intent must be to make it reach to all. Constructing long and strenuous sentences, which are grammatically correct but may not be able to grasp the fine chords of the reader’s mind, or can they?

Now story telling takes a completely different route or approach.  Poetry, Puppeteering, Music, Movies, Dance forms, skits and many other means and techniques have been adopted by the story tellers of the past and present timeline to tie a plot or a sequence of events that left the world awed and speechless. I think having a blessed childhood, with your parents and elders showering tailored and curtailed tales of Kings, Queens, princes, and princesses, witches and hags; their quests, adventures and many thing more, creates a charm and helps netting a world which solely belongs to you and nobody else. And depending on how effortlessly the story teller brews his/her aroma of scribblets into a skittle of chivalry, honour, morality, pain and many things more with his/her fine and articulated choice of words, perfect pauses and precise presentation of how the characters he builds upon fits in a seeming a jumbled world makes the art of story telling a stuff of great amusement, interest and off course entertainment. 

There are many writers, may be in hundreds, who adopt the story-telling style of writing. Mostly these sorts of books are aimed to attract the children and the young audiences scripted the narratives in a meticulous manner. But there are others who know the art to enchant and enthral their audiences with their manner of storytelling. The likes to Tolkien, Doyle, Blyton, and many writers from our contemporary time or contributing to the vast array of literature has been successfully able to design and deliver such a sculpture of story-telling. The greatest skill that a story teller possesses is the art to seam the local plots into a global phenomenon which is universally appealing sets in a marvellous feast for their readers. 

Unlike many writers, story tellers (although many are soliloquy and self-absorbed) are often regarded as beings keen observant to the environment where they exist and seek to replicate the occurrence of events or traits of unique characters blended with imagination into a far superior  diverse-logue of experiences which leaves behind his/her foot prints in the minds of their audiences. People revere them, respect them and remember them for their skills and that what makes story tellers emblem of that timeline. People may forget who the story tellers are but no one forgets memorable stories and they pass on from generation after generations to seekers and traders of stories and tales. 

Their sketches and scripts anecdotally often reflect the culture, political, psychologically, socio-economic ideology and the evolutionary road the art form of storytelling has diligently taken. Whether pedantic or not, at times regressive, at others progressive in its own subtle manner, stories help to fill in the dots and voids. It's very essential for a story teller to be able to represent and replicate their present in a very pristine form. Writers tend to garble out the gracious plethora of musing into a more coarse way, cultivating seeds of thoughts on not-so reliable territory. Story tellers are wittily committed and aware of the territory whether they inherit it or have trespassed in it. 

Personally speaking, it is my believe, after reading a notable amount of historical books and stuff, story-tellers also holds the key to the future by shaping our mind and taste with verses of their views, value and many things more. Human beings must realize we are heading towards a time where implanting false and fabricated facts in the form of “Post truth” is an undeniable reality and story tellers do bang their beats upon that. We also know how story tellers played a crucial role in shaping the views, perception, ideology and understanding of a world that we exist today. I believe that pen is definitely mightier than the sword and have swiftly affected many civilizations, their upsurge, reputation and at times their downfall. This burden of responsibility must be carried duly with caution. Writers those who fail to do so, are lost forever in the sandstorm in this arid and humid desert of desolation, where reality and fiction in a coitus of ephemeral elegance copiously exists, where writers (storytellers and wannabes) like it or not.