How to Pick Up Your Writing Where You Left Off

JeannettedeBeauvoir
Nov 2 · 4 min read
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How do you face that blank page, day after day, with curiosity and enthusiasm rather than fear and dread? How do you begin each writing session with a sense of flow, of continuity, of creativity?

Different writers have taken different approaches to answering those questions. “I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I’ve done that day,” writes Joan Didion. “I…

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