Memory is a very strange thing. It seems to me that it’s like a filesystem. When you delete a file from a filesystem you don’t actually erase the data, you just delete the handle and pretend that the space is empty. But, unless you overwrote the actual bits, you can recover everything.
Same goes with memories. There are things that you totally removed and can’t remember even if someone tells you everything - it happened to me a couple of days ago, where a friend of mine was telling about a kid that lived in our building, and except for the name I couldn’t remember anything, no matter how many details he told - and things that you haven’t touched in decades but come back as strong as ever the moment as you get the right trigger.
Because as soon as I want to produce something that can be enjoyed by an audience, I get writer’s block.
Don’t force it. Just start writing and if you get a block, put your story back into a drawer. At some time later you will have another idea how to continue the story. You can even start several short stories and come back to each story later. And don’t forget: If you write all dreams down, you have a collection of many great ideas that could help you to continue a story. And of course you could get help from another person or a ghostwriter.
I don´t because I like the pattern this creates. If we had it on both sides I imagine some age old writings inscribed in the middle like on a scroll or something.