Going Back to a Large Writing Project After "Finishing" it

About three months ago I printed my preposterously large diary-novel poem, which if it were ever collected together would be called The Yokel Songs.

There are eleven themed volumes of Yokel songs, most over fifty pages long, each containing pages that need to be printed in color.

I printed them at a unit cost of about ten dollars, mostly to make myself stop working on them.

I put the copies in a cabinet drawer in the basement so that I wouldn't see them and be tempted to work on them more.

I have no definite plans to give copies to anyone.

If I revise the books further, I will have to throw out the expensive printed copies.

I can access the books on my phone, so it's easy to find poems to read at readings without needing to bring the printed books, although sometimes I do bring them and have even given a couple of them away.

In each collection, the poem titles in the up-front table of contents are bookmarked, so it's easy to navigate in the online pdfs.

Yesterday I brought the copies upstairs so that I can look at them if I want, and even bring them to readings and (God forbid) give them to people.

But now, a month later, I've come up with a new project for them: to make abridged versions of all eleven, post the collections in my Google blog, and maybe link to the blog items from Substack posts.