Cant complete my productions

[keyman_sam]

Anyone else have this problem where they start on something, and see that its good and it will go somewhere but you're afraid to complete it?

Because of the potentially 'unlimited' time I have, I find myself not finishing any work because I'm too afraid to take the next step. I chuck it aside for a 'better day'

I find that my best work has always been on a deadline of some sort. If left by myself I graze the grass but don't chew my food - for lack of a weirder analogy. Anyone else with this problem?

[riley4reason]

One thing that it could be is a subconscious fear of being evaluated.
Another is ADD, people with ADD feel a sense of completion before something is complete and it makes it hard for them to focus long enough to finish something.

Riley

[Zexila]

Sort of, I think that's because of "rules" we made, so we are afraid to break them, many things are done same way following rules or workflow, basically we use same unproductive workflow or set of rules that actually doesn't work best for us.

Not posing as expert here or anything, but I'm not only one that at any point was just cutting with one EQ, than boosting with some "analogue" or "musical" emulation and all that in stages, so boosting stuff is for the end, there's plenty of similar workflow rules we stick for different tasks and that results in fear of breaking them or even absence of that solutions as potential, so we postpone it until we "get there", OCD for sure.

So break all your rules and enjoy

[Frantz]

I can't even complete my own sente

[deastman]

You said it yourself: create an artificial deadline and stick to it.

Also, look up Oblique Strategies.

And get this book:
Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers
By Dennis DeSantis

[deastman]

You said it yourself: create an artificial deadline and stick to it.

Also, look up Oblique Strategies.

And get this book:
Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers
By Dennis DeSantis

[trewq]

But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting ........

-- H. W. Longfellow.

[trewq]

But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting ........

-- H. W. Longfellow.

[Aloysius]

I can't even complete my own sente

[e@rs]

I can't even complete my own sente

[DJ Warmonger]

Because of the potentially 'unlimited' time I have, I find myself not finishing any work

Get a job or something, you will suddenly find a tight shedule

[keyman_sam]

Because of the potentially 'unlimited' time I have, I find myself not finishing any work

Get a job or something, you will suddenly find a tight shedule

I used to. I quit it to do this instead.

[Zexila]

With what you struggle actually, what does finishing up actually means in your case, mixing, transforming skeleton into proper polished track, transforming few bar's loop idea into arrangement, what?

Personally I dropped everything too to make music at one point and I needed that time to actually experiment, to actually mess around, thing that majority of people these days don't have, time to actually do something on my own, evolve, not just be successful copycat.

That kind of stuff seeks way less output and way more messing around, nothing can replace experimentation, one needs to put time into it, of course, if one wants to do that, really depends what you actually want to do and where you are lacking, what is the thing that "scares" you, where you get stuck, there is remedy for most of it.

If you are seeking for solutions, of course, if you are just chatting up, than this is common, people get stuck in their comfort zone all the time, most common thing behind writer blocks and all that, not challenging yourself enough, evolving, not having goals, even if they aren't making it big in industry, but finishing stuff, making track in hour, different genres, with just one instrument and so on, all depends what is it for you.

I found out that doing track with someone who isn't into all this is so great exercise on many levels, you can even treat him as your customer or something, so he sits there, gives you input and watch you delivering, of course, already thinks making music is plain easy and you should make your job he leave thinking the same with the way you work, fast, efficient and delivering at the end, without bumps on the road, so casual atmosphere and great vibe, feeling of security and accomplishment, trust, competence, all in the way how you transform his vision into reality.

That experiences really pushed me, I realized what I'm lacking and actually how I can compensate for it, but mostly I learned how to actually move on and "finish" it up, what is actually important, what gives sense of completion and getting somewhere and so on, you can do it without anyone being behind your back, sure it's not "real", but it's still doable, challenge yourself.

[bludreamsounds]

pick any habitual approach , stick to it and tweak along the way.

[AsPeeXXXVIII]

I always complete my productions.

Unless they suck. Which most of them don't. In my personal opinion anyway.