Same! Well, I don't have the tips and tricks (I might have some), but I tried plotting out my 20s story by myself and managed to write the first third of it without talking to anybody about it. Only once I did talk to Baco about it, I suddenly realized all these things I should have done that were so much better than what I had actually concocted. I've more or less given up trying to plot things on my own at this point. It just works better for me if I can bounce ideas back and forth off of somebody. Part of it is just giving me extra distance, I think.