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Continued writing, not starting over (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

extended

'continued writing' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to change as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'not starting over' is the wordplay.
'not starting' becomes 'ext' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'over' becomes 'ended' (over can mean finished or ended).
'ext'+'ended'='EXTENDED'

(Other definitions for extended that I've seen before include "Stretched, drew out" , "Lengthy" , "Made longer" , "get out" , "Stretched out over a distance" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times and The Times.
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