Why can’t I tell a story?
I could try to start a story by picking a name for someone and placing that someone in a place with a name where their name is the same name as the place because either the place is named after the person or more likely the person is named after the place.
I wouldn’t forget the name of the person or the place after writing them down (especially if I name them the same) like how I forgot the beginning of the plot I came up with while I was writing who is the place and what is the person. Even while writing that last part down I lost my train of thought of where I wanted to go next, as myself, instead of someplace and somewhere that does not yet exist.
I should come up with an outline for a story first but I like to come up with ideas as I go. I would like to change the names and not have them written in stone. I would like the place and the person to stay the same, they are mine to do with what I please so I can rename them on my own.
I take what I have already written and come up with what to write next. I can’t present a grand plan to have names stay the same and the people and places change because I do not change and I am going nowhere with the same name.
That is why I can’t tell a story without writing a poem.
Francis Erich McElroy 