: Re: Strategies for returning to a piece of writing after a short break I'm in the midst of writing what will probably become a novella length story. While I've written every word of it, I find

Try rewriting a chunk of text, with or without edits, before carrying over into the next phase of the piece. This is my technique for picking up a piece at any stage, to insure continuity of style; first I re-read a fairly large section, the longer I've left it the larger the reread. Then I read the last section of writing again. Once I'm sure I have the proper sense of the last section I rewrite it, usually with a fair amount of editing in the process, then new material flows from there. With pieces that have sat for months or years there's usually still some discontinuity of style but over days or weeks it's usually pretty close to seamless.

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