{"id":22821,"date":"2020-03-06T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=22821"},"modified":"2020-03-03T06:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:26:15","slug":"the-pain-and-perils-of-starting-over-by-catharine-bramkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/the-pain-and-perils-of-starting-over-by-catharine-bramkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pain and Perils of Starting Over by Catharine Bramkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Pain-and-Perils-of-Starting-Over-by-Catharine-Bramkamp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22822\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Pain-and-Perils-of-Starting-Over-by-Catharine-Bramkamp.png\" alt=\"The Pain and Perils of Starting Over by Catharine Bramkamp\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Pain-and-Perils-of-Starting-Over-by-Catharine-Bramkamp.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Pain-and-Perils-of-Starting-Over-by-Catharine-Bramkamp-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Let\u2019s welcome back monthly columnist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?s=Catharine+Bramkamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catharine Bramkamp<\/a> as she shares with us \u201cThe Pain and Perils of Starting Over.\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who hasn\u2019t had nightmares of losing their work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A friend reported that due to a bug (we hope it\u2019s not a feature), the most recent sixteen hours investment creating his symphony had disappeared with no hope of recovery.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clients have watched in horror as novels are swallowed whole.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I once lost a just-completed workbook into the black maw of cyberspace where no one hears you scream. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you do when you\u2019ve lost weeks, months, years of work?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, scream anyway, cry and bang your head on the offending laptop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, scream and beat the offending laptop against the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Call a friend,<\/strong> then scream that they just don\u2019t understand. Because what they asked, after your rant, was, why not just start over?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a couple of gin and tonics, you wake to the painful realization that the only course of action is to start over.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">STARTING OVER\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You don\u2019t have to like it, but starting a project over does have creative benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The first benefit is time. \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For creatives, time is our friend. Even a few days of distance helps us refine our work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Returning to the project after a few days away, or in this scenario, return to the project because you must, carries the benefit of maturity, even if you are merely a few hours older.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What may happen upon the mature return:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You actually find the PPT template you thought lost. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You discover the exact right musical beat that days prior had eluded you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You discover a new voice from an old or marginalized character.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The second benefit is new energy for an old project. \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Returning has a different vibe than starting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon reconsideration, the work can either become more important or actually less so for being lost. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since you and your work survived the ultimate disaster, it may be easier to view the remains with a more critical eye.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next iteration is almost always stronger, better and able to leap tall agents in a single bound.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How can you gain both benefits without all the pain and anguish of loss? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can we generate the energy and maturity of loss without all the angst, teeth gnashing, and potential alienation of friends? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While we artists don\u2019t purposefully lose our work, we do tend to abandon it for long periods of time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>That abandonment has a purpose, it\u2019s like loss. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We often return to something we wrote last year and think, yes this can be saved, and we edit.\u00a0Or we think, no, better leave it in its dark place in my files where it belongs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is research on creativity that validates our tendency to start a project well ahead of deadline, then return to that\u00a0project right before the deadline to modify, edit, and in some cases, start again.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deadline helps focus our work\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deadline helps focus our work.\u00a0Even if you don\u2019t have a deadline for your work, you can create one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pick a time and day you want the project finished and write it down, create the work with that deadline looming.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Invest the deadline with gravitas and urgency.\u00a0<\/strong>You must do it, so your focus will become sharp and clear.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And what about the time between starting and (at last) finishing a project?\u00a0 It is time well spent offering up ideas, new materials, and rest. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Muse is ready to help\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Muse is ready to help, you just need to give her the opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the rest stage of a project, often the exact material you need pops up on your newsfeed.\u00a0Or a conversation triggers a new way to look at the novel.\u00a0Or a client calls and offers up a better story for your book. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>If this is how your Muse works,<\/strong> how your process progresses, allow it to happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t erase or lose your first draft, but do find a way to give it a rest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is there a new project you can work on while the current one rests for a couple weeks?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you take a vacation between the novel\u2019s first and second\u00a0draft?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you take up another art form and practice that for a week or two?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or do you bang your head on the laptop and spend the trip money on a new computer?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Muse doesn\u2019t care how you create distance and time for your book, just\u00a0do it, or actually, give it a rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want help with starting up your book?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then come to our \u201cBusiness to Book\u201d workshops in Sonoma County Wine Country: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonomahealingpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.sonomahealingpress.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Already have your book in hand but need to promote it?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything you need to know to effectively promote your book both before and after it\u2019s published: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/story-university.teachable.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/story-university.teachable.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1RlgH6b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1rlgh6b noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12334\" title=\"Catharine Bramkamp\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Catharine-Bramkamp-pic-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"Catharine Bramkamp\" width=\"150\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Catharine-Bramkamp-pic-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Catharine-Bramkamp-pic-300x329.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Catharine-Bramkamp-pic.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1RlgH6b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catharine Bramkamp<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the co-producer of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newbiewriters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Newbie Writers Podcast <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that focuses on newer writers and their concerns. She is a successful <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/yourbookstartshere.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">writing coach<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Chief Storytelling Officer, and author of a dozen <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1i9eAlQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">books<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1HgxT4W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Estate Diva Mysteries series<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Tmil52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Future Girls series<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. She holds two degrees in English and is an adjunct university professor. After fracturing her wrist, she has figured out there is very little she is able to do with one hand tied behind her back.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who hasn\u2019t had nightmares of losing their work? What do you do when you\u2019ve lost weeks, months, years of work? 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