What is Left On The Cutting Room Floor

You didn’t finish that project.
That thing you wrote never saw the light of day.

We all have projects that we were once excited about and since have abandoned.
Life gets in the way.
Or work.
Or we find that the work it might take to bring that idea to life just wasn’t worth the effort.
So it’s forgotten.

Here are 3 reminders:

1. There’s no shame in that. We all do it.

2. Just because it isn’t finished and public doesn’t mean there isn’t something to learn from it. Why did you lose interest? What got in the way? What (or who!) might have helped take this across the finish line? What would you do differently next time?

3. Warner Bros recently released bloopers from the Golden Age of cinema that were left in their archive for almost 100 years. It’s amazing to see how things that were once cut and scrapped actually have value years later. Maybe it’s worth having an archive of scrapped ideas and projects of your own. Who knows what might be valuable years from now?

Your work continues…

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