TomP....you are more than welcome to ghost write my biography....after you finish Flynns of course!
I would ask that you not stick too much with facts......instead just let your fervent mind wander hither and yon....preferably while practising a form of 'flask' writing.
You will not have a lot of drawings from prior years to rely on.
About a year ago I was trying to make more room for my teenage sons to practice their nefarious activities, and I decided to clear out my third floor 'tower' room office.
I ended up throwing out hundreds of landscape plans, land plans and old routings....right up to the last few years that are on computer disks.....I did keep a lot of the hand drafted architectural stuff from the past.
I started to go through the plans one by one...and enjoyed it at first.
But it didn't take long for me to tire of this, and I knew I would never really want go through this exercise twice. Towards the end I was just throwing out files unopened, strangely elated. I even threw out a perfectly good ammonia blue print machine.....I knew I couldn't give the old dinosaur away.
I guess I am sharing this to reinforce where I get my inspiration from....all I have experienced has become part of the fabric I pull from, and I really don't need a blueprint of how I got here. I much prefer the feeling I get from the excitement and fears of the new and unknown.
Maybe someday I will want to look back and reminisce about the old, but I hope its about the same time my final few synapses blink out....but I'm sure this will change.....maybe....probably.