Man has always loved stories. This phrase can be read almost everywhere on the web, especially from those who talk about storytelling to promote companies and products (even if those created under the name of storytelling are almost always banal commercials). In reality it is true, if we think about the paintings found in caves or even rock engravings: they were a primitive form of journalism , because they told scenes of real life. We can even go so far as to define those paintings and engravings as the forerunners of our blogs : they were a sort of diary, in which the blogger of the time, dressed in animal skins, wrote about what he had experienced firsthand or observed from afar. Who were those first stories left on the rock for? We can make assumptions today, but we certainly cannot be certain of the reasons that pushed those prehistoric men to recount their experiences.


There are theories about it: the rock paintings could represent something really important to them or have a religious or magical meaning. In any case we can assert that those primitive stories satisfied the desire to communicate , to pass Special Data something on to others, to preserve experiences and events. Man, therefore, began to feel the need to communicate , to narrate, and he did so, at least at that time, through images, which, as much as we may love writing, still remain the fastest way. and natural to convey information. But we will return to this another time. Do stories serve the reader? Yes, we could answer as readers and lovers of books and reading. We need stories if we really love reading them so much. Otherwise there would be no point in buying books, talking about them, even writing about them. Stories serve us above all as reader-writers or, better yet, as writer-readers: if we love writing stories, we must also read stories.



Stories are useful to readers, but they are useful because a story, in the form of a story or novel, represents a consumer product: I am not diminishing its value, but a book, even if it is a classic, even if it is not strictly considered consumer literature , it is however a product that is consumed: this is undeniable. Readers, if we go back in time, when it all began, would never have existed if writers had not been born. Writers in images. That was the first appearance of publishing, of self-publishing, indeed. Man began to tell stories and then the first readers were born, image readers. Perhaps in this case we can give an answer to the fateful question "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". Which came first, the reader or the writer? The writer was born first , there's no doubt. The reader just found a finished product and benefited from it.