Setting down a novel, picking it up again

on April 19th of this year, I completed my first novel (go me!) which ended up being a 380 page tour-de-suck. There were massive periods of times when i didn't write squat, or only could do a few words at a time. How did I do it?

Find a place where you can't do anything else! absolute boredom. no internet. no movies, little music, no distractions. Zen is my muse.

I'm sure some people here remember my story, i had 27 chapters on poetrydmv, i finished it at 80+. now I got to figure out how to publish the damn thing...