[darkangel82]

I’m trying to write, from memory, a story about a trip I took with the Scouts about 15 years ago, and not having any success.

[Lil'freeper]

Yeah, I'm approaching a 15-year mark, too. Time does wacky things to memory, that's why I'm so motivated to write these stories. The project started as a memoir. But, honestly, I hate memoirs - they're usually insufferably pretentious. So I've worked my memoirs into a fictional group of scouts and that way I can draw from more than just my own experiences. I'm still revising the first story and, in the process, identified about a dozen plot points that can follow up on in the sequel. Great fun!

More plotting again today.... another all-day bored meeting.

[JenB]

DA, visit http://www.nanowrimo.org/ if you haven’t and read the About and FAQ sections. The NaNo philosophy of writing can be applied any month and it’s truly helpful in getting past a block. The past few years, NaNo has been the only writing I’ve really done. But by writing a 50,000+ word story every year I remind myself that I am a writer, I just haven’t focused on it lately.