I would say start writing...I didnt do steps 1-3 with my sponsor...I told my sponsor I had done them and I was ready for inventory...He told me to do the third step prayer..Which I did...And get to work..If I had questions..I asked him..I didn't have many...I followed the book and did my fifth step with him....I didn't want to sit around and wait till I went back out...And I didn't.