New month, new day, new chance

I'm writing the blog before I started the work of the day. As I made my list last night, I didn't add "write." I want that to be so much part of the routine that I don't HAVE to include it any more than I include "draw a breath." I do need to guard against my own tendency to delay, however. So today is the first day of my process. I plan to retype what I have written so far, my "first first first draft" written years ago. Much of it will be incorporated, if in a different form, into the book. I have no electronic copy, and thus no easily editable copy of what I've already mulled over. How much of that "old" stuff should be used? I wrote it originally out of the pain of events, and I've grown to be a different person since that original pain, since that original writing, and since that original clarification of who and what I am. I wrote it for a class, and I consciously made it "neat" so that it would fit into what I thought the instructor wanted. The ragged edges of the actual events were part of why I still feel the need to write.

So, how does one balance the old with the new?