How to decide whether to start, pivot, or finish your creative project and what to do when you're stuck between all three. Plus, a new way to get support and feedback.
This was spot on. I loved how you reframed starting as brave, pivoting as strategic, and finishing as its own skill — it gave language to the exact loop so many of us get stuck in. The line about “ghosting your own genius” really landed. It felt like you named the tug-of-war inside every creator’s head and then handed us the permission slip to move.
Yes good questions / advice. Tho personally I don’t like the word (meaning behind) pivot. I may well be on a 1 man crusade but hey! 😂
For me it’s as simple as Stop, Start, Continue.
But… what I do think that’s really important is to know, when to stop each / all types of work in progress.
Not just for those near to finish. For sure, good enough is good enough.
criteria to know if to stop mid way is as important as is criteria to stop what you start. Either because you’ve got ahead of yourself and haven’t tested it’s right, or just are spending a disproportionate amount of time.
Thank you for sharing this criteria. This is a situation I've found myself in a bunch of times before, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I am currently stuck on an idea for a sci-fi/mystery narrative, and I'm stuck because I can't decide in what medium to do it on. (Comic book, short film, experimental music video.)
This was spot on. I loved how you reframed starting as brave, pivoting as strategic, and finishing as its own skill — it gave language to the exact loop so many of us get stuck in. The line about “ghosting your own genius” really landed. It felt like you named the tug-of-war inside every creator’s head and then handed us the permission slip to move.
Nice overview.
When It’s Time To Finish is one that I have to push myself. I can get wrapped around the axle of perfectionism.
Yes good questions / advice. Tho personally I don’t like the word (meaning behind) pivot. I may well be on a 1 man crusade but hey! 😂
For me it’s as simple as Stop, Start, Continue.
But… what I do think that’s really important is to know, when to stop each / all types of work in progress.
Not just for those near to finish. For sure, good enough is good enough.
criteria to know if to stop mid way is as important as is criteria to stop what you start. Either because you’ve got ahead of yourself and haven’t tested it’s right, or just are spending a disproportionate amount of time.
Thank you for sharing this criteria. This is a situation I've found myself in a bunch of times before, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I am currently stuck on an idea for a sci-fi/mystery narrative, and I'm stuck because I can't decide in what medium to do it on. (Comic book, short film, experimental music video.)