James Barclay

butterfly · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 47 Location: Ireland

Okay, I hope I am putting this in the right section (sorry Lizzy if its in the wrong place!!) but I have a problem.
Before I had two kids in quick succession, a snapped wrist and half a dozen other things I wrote quite a bit. I was working on a book and with background stuff, worldbuilding and character rapsheets I have about 250,000 words. Then I stopped.
I am now getting back into the story and I want to write but am a little rusty. So the question is do I just launch myself into the book again or work my way up to it?
I will only get an hour a day to write and would like to focus so I am asking for all your opinions please???
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James · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:04 am Post subject:

Yes, butterfly, crack straight into the book. This is your work in progress and it's the thing you care about. All I would say is, don't expect it to flow right away if you've had a break. it's certainly worth reading everything you have about it to familiarise yourself with what you were doing.

Just take it slow, don't set high expectations about how much you'll achieve and you'll get yourself going in your own time.
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butterfly · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 47 Location: Ireland

Thanks very much.
I took your advice and have just finished rereading everything, so baby temperatures notwithstanding should be able to stay and write for the next hour... Cool

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budongsmith · Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Posts: 1

I guess you might not expect too much that you've achieve higher on the start.

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