@Keba Si Rota:

You're welcome!

I posted "So Distant" here after it was already completed, so there wasn't much delay for you guys. XD

@kita mikichi:

Thanks, Kita.

I didn't even know that happened with your story! If you took a break, I guess I didn't even notice. Or I just don't remember. Could be either.

Seconded on Darkarax's comment --

I did the same thing with "So Distant". I dropped it for a long time before I finally finished it -- months, maybe even a year. I forgot a lot of details. But I went back and re-read, reworked how to get to the main points I wanted to hit, and finally plowed through the rest of it. (And it probably worked out better than it would have originally, because I fleshed out Ikuo and Kotaro a bit more in the process of reworking the rest of the plot.)

As far as drawing character studies, I find that the expressions are easiest/the most fun for me, and the full-body/clothing reference is more difficult. Maybe do what you like best first to get yourself on a roll? (I dunno, I find it's easier to fit the expressions in after the full-body stuff is drawn, but when I'm in a block, it's easiest to do what I like the most first, or I get frustrated.)

Hope that helps!

@Darkarax:

Thanks for the advice. I do need to sit down and reread what I have.

One thing that I usually do when I decide to work on a story that I haven't touched in a long time is I go back and read every previous chapter of that story. That way I usually get the "feel" of the story as you put it back and remember where I was taking it.

It also helps to have an outline of every multi-chapter story you do on hand, so that when you decide to go back to it after not working on it for a long time you can easily remember what you were going to do next.