Beginner darkroom questions... Tips and tricks welcome!

[Sirius Glass]

I recently got myself some darkroom kit and had a go at printing some negs from 30 years ago. I could bang out over 100 postcards in a session back then so no problem eh? 3 or 4 hours and about a dozen sheets of 8x10 later, I had nothing worth showing.

Thoroughly disheartened and I haven't printed since. I will start again once I've had a proper think about workflow.

Instead of printing as much as you can in a session, pick one negative and print it different ways cropping, dodging and burning until you get a print that you are happy with. That way you will learn to how to print well. That is what I had to do.