@JessTheUnstill @TarkabarkaHolgy If you think that the best story tellers are the ones that make money from their stories then I disagree. Money is not a healthy yardstick for measure storytelling success.
Stories have the ability to be vast and intimate. We feel that in novels but we lose meaningfulness when the storytelling is no longer embodied.
Honestly, I am a performing storyteller, and I do charge for performances because this is how I make a living. I don't think those things are mutually exclusive. And I also don't think being paid makes me better or more important than, say, any storyteller from my village.
@TarkabarkaHolgy @JessTheUnstill that’s lovely 
I’m just trying to say while we all need to make money to survive (zero shame in that) I desperately want to revitalize and make normal peer to peer storytelling. I see capitalistic thought trying to replace that function in our lives. I think stories are too important to let that happen.
I hope that your stories are inspiring your audiences to tell stories instead of looking for new story experiences to buy