The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.
Exercise the writing muscle every day.
If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.
Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
You can only chase a butterfly for so long.
You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.