Tomorrow, I will begin writing the novel from scratch. I have weighed all of the options, and this seems to be the best path.

A lot of my hesitation about working on the draft is that it would mainly be chopping it up. The non-fiction book removes a lot of the exposition that was previously saddled with the characters, and a lot of stuff in the latter two-thirds of the book was planned to be removed. It was always going to be a massive edit.

And, long story short, I think I can create the draft I want sooner than I can turn the draft I have into the same thing. The existing draft is somewhere around 50,000 words, so writing 2,000 a day, it means that in under a month I am not only further than where I am now, but I am removing a separate step of folding the non-fiction book into the fictional one. I already know how the two work together with the draft of the book I want to exist. It just so happens that draft does not yet exist.

Also, I think I am much more steeped in this world now than when I wrote it last time. I want to spend more time on it and shine light into the corners more than I did before.

My main hesitation here was to ensure I wasn’t just doing some kind of subconscious procrastination as a means of not finishing the book. Having observed this from every angle, I can’t see that being the case. Let’s hope I’m right.

Aren’t writers supposed to hate the blank, white page? Not sure why, but I became energized when I made this decision. Can’t wait until I get going on this tomorrow… weird.

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