Okay, I’m woefully behind in NaNoWriMo, considering I haven’t got a story yet and we’re three days in.
Maybe you guys can help me.
I’m trying to put together a story, half make believe and half real, basing the characters on myself and a couple of my friends when we were in our early teens.
It would help me out if you could answer any or all of the following for me:
1. What emotions do you remember most strongly from your early teen years (12-14)?
2. What is one of your strongest joyful memories from that age?
3. What is one of your strongest unhappy memories from that age?
4. Did you or your friends believe in ghosts/claim to have ghosts in your house?
kthanksbai
P.S. More details about the torch relay later.
If By Yes 
I’m shy so please don’t tease me, but I’ll answer.
1) Jealousy, confusion and lonelyness, even though I was a happy kid.
2) Winning athlete of the year in grade 9
3) Mean girls. Mean girls telling the boy I had a crush on, that I had a crush on him.
4) We played ouja board, but that was about it.
Thanks! Sounds a lot like my own mental answers, except I never won athlete of the year.
I’ve suppressed lots of that time; it’s round about when my parents were getting divorced.
1. sheer freedom, wanting to feel fear (doing crazy crap like swimming with grey whales)…
2. walking by myself with my dog, running til my chest hurt and then diving off the edge of a sand dune (some things never change…some things definitely have)
3. A traumatic event in my teens shattered my confidence and self worth. Can’t say I’ve regained it, but I’ve discovered a deeper sense of confidence and worth because I had to regrow it from scratch.
4. Not at all…is that weird?!
You too, with number three, huh?