26End on an I-Can't-Wait-to-Get-Back-to-It Note
It's tempting to push through writing in order to finish a piece by the end of the day, just so you can be done with it and move on. But it can be useful to leave something undone—to give you a reason, and the courage, to start again the next day.
So I like to end a writing session when things are going well and not when I'm sucking wind, so that the next time I pick up that writing again (to rewrite, edit, or whatever) I have some momentum carrying me into it.
Doing so gives me a place to start—which increases the likelihood of an actual start, and decreases the likelihood that I'll opt to binge-watch the first three seasons of Scandal rather than sitting down at my desk again.
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