: Re: Restarting a Novel In 2015 I wrote the first two thirds of a novel (as part of NaNoWriMo). I stopped at that point because I had written the 50,000 words required for the 'competition' but

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This may be opinion based. My advice is to at least finish it - and here's why. If you allow yourself to not finish, you are setting a precedent for yourself. You are patterning to you that you don't need to finish. Likewise, if you finish it, even if poorly, you are disciplining yourself to finishing the project.

Finish it. Commit to three weeks of writing, and finish it.

And, you may want to think in terms of numerous revisions awaiting you, on whatever project you do finish. Three years is not unusual at all for a new author to start writing, edit, find an agent, find a publisher, and have the book to the masses. The 'it's been three years' argument doesn't hold, to me, for that reason. Unless you are writing within a blog format or similar, which is immediately out there to the world, you might expect some length of time between writing and publishing. Self publishing is quicker, and maybe that's what you plan. It comes with other issues.

Tweak the story, make it less time dependent, update it. Obviously you know your story and I don't, but from what you've provided, those are my thoughts.

Good luck.

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