I know the feeling of generating work with the idea of SOMEDAY MAYBE using it somehow. I took a break from submitting my essays for some (I forget how many) months, and tried to write an essay every week. Some flowed and felt finished and others were just ideas. Eventually, some were submitted whole, a few of those were accepted, some paragraphs were borrowed from essay ideas for other projects. I was delighted and satisfied with the experiment! (I should do that again some time.)
I remember you mentioning your essay-a-week challenge! I think it's really hard to keep up with such an intense generative routine--but it *does* give you something to work with later, even if it's just a sentence or paragraph here or there. Congrats on that!!
I know the feeling of generating work with the idea of SOMEDAY MAYBE using it somehow. I took a break from submitting my essays for some (I forget how many) months, and tried to write an essay every week. Some flowed and felt finished and others were just ideas. Eventually, some were submitted whole, a few of those were accepted, some paragraphs were borrowed from essay ideas for other projects. I was delighted and satisfied with the experiment! (I should do that again some time.)
I remember you mentioning your essay-a-week challenge! I think it's really hard to keep up with such an intense generative routine--but it *does* give you something to work with later, even if it's just a sentence or paragraph here or there. Congrats on that!!