I would like to take a different tack and look at other analogies for the phenomenon I am calling story. Some people refer to 'maps' and 'life maps' which are given to us and which we modify and which we travel across. Some people refer to our 'path' a lit path through darkness with bottomless depths of chaos on either side. Some people refer to our 'films' in which we are the director who has to adapt to a real setting not a studio controlled one. The film is partly the result of what the weather is like at the time of shooting and is partly the result of the performance of the various actors although we are also casting director and we have done our best to choose who we want for each part just what our wife should be like and what she should think and behave like we are our costume director at least of ourselves as protagonist some people place themselves in a minor role in their own film and others demand the central role.
Some people prefer to think of living in their own 'soap opera'.
I believe the travelling actors in the Commedia del Arte didn't have a fixed script but entered situations in character and responded according to their characters. But The British royal family has appointed a 'spin doctor', a person whose job it is to find good stories about his or her employer and to give them to the press. He or she might even tell the queen how to dress, have her hair done, how to modulate her voice and what to say. The British government employs spin doctors or, at least, the British New Labour party does. Every political party in the West employs spin doctors.