Challenges of Writing in the Not So Long Ago Past

If there were any challenges I encountered while writing a young adult coming of age novel set in the early 1980s, a story that I freely admit is somewhat of a roman a clef loosely based on my experiences as an NYU student during that same era, it would have to be memory-related. This should come as no surprise to anyone over a certain age but I find as time moves forward and the decades past recede into memory archives, that sometimes remembering certain details, be it conversations, events and even popular tunes, can be problematic.

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