Summer Plans

Every summer I tell myself I'm going to write.  Even just a few pages a day.  One year I was going to write a novel.  Another, a screenplay.  But at the end of the summer I have just as many pages as I did in the spring - zero.  So when I tell myself I'm going to write this summer, I'm not quite sure I believe it.   The story I want to tell, though, is getting more urgent.  At the beginning of April my great uncle passed away.  We were not particularly close...but it was my grandfather's last surviving sibling.  His sister died when I was very little, I barely remember her at all.  And his youngest brother died about 70 years ago in a death camp, along with their mother.  I've heard my grandpa speak about his life during the Holocaust several times...and each time I learn something new.  As the resident storyteller among the grandchildren, I've always wanted to document it.  It's the story I've always wanted to tell...and now more than ever I need to actually do it.  At first I was thinking a novel would be good...then I was on a screenplay kick.  However, there's been a shift in Hollywood from movies to television.  To anyone reading this: would you watch a TV show about a Jewish family during World War II?  Regardless of the medium, though, I think this is the summer to write down this story once and for all.