Don't worry if your mind's got a desire to story tell. It's just another hindrance. Just note it, come back; note it, come back. Due to each person's conditioning, there will be some degree of restlessness, storytelling, wandering mind. Restlessness will be different for each person, in varying degrees and that's just part of the practice, part of the hindrances.
To force the hindrances away, that's not what we're doing here. There are some practices which force the hindrances away; focus strongly on developing super concentration. We feel peaceful, we feel calm, but when we're done concentrating , the hindrances will come straight back again. The practice we're doing here is more: Can we learn to let go of the hindrances?, Can we learn to relax more around them?, Can we learn more how not to react to them?
The story I tell about holding on to fire. It's not actually our wandering thoughts that are any problem at all, it's our reaction to the wandering thoughts. With meditation techniques that want to get super-concentrated, then it's considered to be a problem if the mind wanders a lot. We don't actually want to wander a lot, but if our mind does wander - we note it; we come back.
Now, it's helpful, particularly for any of you who've never read a biography of the Buddha to know that the Buddha first went to two different teachers. They both taught him super high levels of concentration. The second teacher taught him all the way to what they call the very highest level of concentration. With both teachers, after he mastered that level of concentration - no thoughts, perfectly calm, concentrated brain -, he said to both teachers, "What else?", "What's next?". The Buddha knew this wasn't it. The Buddha knew that just blanking the mind and being super concentrated wasn't it. The teachers said, "We don't know anything higher, sorry". So that's when the Buddha went off and practiced by himself. Eventually he became enlightened through developing wisdom, not just concentration. So don't worry too much if your mind wanders a lot, it's more important to develop wisdom.