WIP Challenge (very belated) checkin, Day 17, Thursday

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Have you written today?
Let's discuss late starts and re-starts. Have you ever come back to a fic after a long break? What it was like getting to know it again?

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I haven't written yet today, though my writing yesterday went slightly smoother than much of the rest of the month.

When it comes to returning to old works, I feel like it's a bit of a mixed track record for me. Sometimes I've been able to jump back in on something I'd started and never completed. In those cases, it's often a matter of rereading anything I had written, and getting to know the setting and the characters again, to remember what was exciting or where I was excited to go with it.
Recently I tried to return to a fic that has been in various stages of in-progress for almost a decade, but that I hadn't worked on for a couple years. Unfortunately, I decided that one probably needs to be given up on, at least for now. It sort of felt like a "we've just grown apart" situation, like I couldn't quite get to know it again. Very bittersweet!