Do you develop a middling idea?

[u/PSACreates]

Do you all finish ideas for pieces that seem to have only middling potential?

I go through these stages of development:

1. I love the originating idea - the first loop.
2. Next few days, meh.
3. Next week: It’s truly awful and should be buried. Plus I don’t know where to go next.

Many pieces get abandoned here - my hard drive is littered with them. Occasionally I do push on, and I go through the next few stages:

1. It’s not as bad as I thought.
2. It’s finished, I don’t know if it’s good or not, but it’s going on the album.

Do you push on and finish those pieces that seem to have only limited potential? Is it a valuable creative exercise to finish the piece, or do you move on to something else?

Thanks in advance for sharing this aspect of your process.

[u/okiedokieophie]

I don't like deleting projects, I've got nearly a decade of projects in various states of completion that I might go back to and grab to finish whenever I'm looking for something to write.