You make a really good point. And this is a piece of why, after days/months/years of doing corporate software development, I come home... and crochet. And cook. And learn musical instruments. And make art with my hands. It's tangible.

I have wanted a "historian" for some of the RPGs I've attended as an audience member. So many of them make excellent stories. But they make excellent stories in part because they happen so fast, one thing on top of another... There isn't really time "in game" for bardic practice and story creation with everything live and fresh. We already speed up the story for purposes of real life.

I agree with you though... I wish there were memoirs too.