Erin Pangilinan
asked
Elizabeth Gilbert:
How do you decide to restart an old writing project and make it new? I had a draft in progress that is years old, and at times I pick it up and decide I'm not ready to take it on again.
Elizabeth Gilbert
You can't ever know for sure, Erin. There is no certainty. There is never certainty in creative work. If you're waiting for some kind of lightning bolt of a divine signal, or some kind of rush of absolute assurance — that never comes. The only way you can find out is to play with it again, and see if it comes to life. It may, it may not. But if you're still thinking about it at all, that strikes me as a sign that perhaps you are not done with this project. If you are doing nothing else creativity right now, you certainly have nothing to lose.
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