
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Back to the Book: Restarting a Shelved Draft Fast is a practical, no-nonsense episode for writers who’ve stepped away from a manuscript and want to re-enter it without rereading the whole thing.
You’ll learn a 60-minute re-entry sprint to regain story context fast, a 2-hour reset to rebuild your “story map,” and a simple toolkit for avoiding the biggest time-wasters like polishing old chapters instead of writing new pages.
If opening your draft makes you think, “Who are these people and why are they in a barn?”, this episode will get you writing again today.
By Stuart Wakefield4.6
2121 ratings
Back to the Book: Restarting a Shelved Draft Fast is a practical, no-nonsense episode for writers who’ve stepped away from a manuscript and want to re-enter it without rereading the whole thing.
You’ll learn a 60-minute re-entry sprint to regain story context fast, a 2-hour reset to rebuild your “story map,” and a simple toolkit for avoiding the biggest time-wasters like polishing old chapters instead of writing new pages.
If opening your draft makes you think, “Who are these people and why are they in a barn?”, this episode will get you writing again today.

229,579 Listeners

38,822 Listeners

1,298 Listeners

1,013 Listeners

632 Listeners

326 Listeners

113,257 Listeners

312 Listeners

1,015 Listeners

1,475 Listeners

783 Listeners

16,482 Listeners

430 Listeners

92 Listeners