Welcome Yourself Back Into Your Writing
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The challenge! After a long break, how to reenter a manuscript? (Or a report or anything that’s been sitting for a while.)
How to re-engage with the original urge to tell a particular story?
I use several devices to bring myself “home” to a manuscript. I read it out loud. Sometimes I have my computer’s read function read it to me. I call a friend and read over a passage and ask for feedback and then there’s my Essential Note Library.
When I have been away from writing for a while, I visit notes I left that are designed to bring me home to the writing. (I rework and update my library often and keep it on the first page of whatever I’m creating. If I have to leave the project for a while, I take some time to first leave a trail of engaging notes and questions to welcome me back.)