E109. A New Way of Understanding Done with Creative Projects

How do we know when we've finished a creative project? Sometimes we know because we have deadlines or explicit, concrete goals to work toward, but what about long-term and fairly open-ended projects like novels, where it is up to us and us alone to judge whether it's done? Especially if we have any perfectionist tendencies, we may feel confused about what indicators tell us a project is ready to put out into the world. In this episode I discuss a way of understanding done that is based on your own internal experience of the life cycle of a project. This new perspective on done can help you leave behind the anxiety you feel around interpreting external criteria of done, and releasing a project into the world.