What the longest you’ve ever had an unfinished project be dormant before being successfully revived and taken to an outcome (eg partial book draft that sat untouched for 10y, then actually got finished and published).
Share both duration and specifics/details that add color
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~4 years
abhinavsaxena.com/jadhein/
I started with the last section (that was the actual thought) Didn't like it & after a while started with a metaphor (para 1)
After another 2 years, I finally wrote the middle para & published it as a set of 3 distinct yet connected thoughts.
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Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything longer than the Monkey Island stage musical that we cancelled due to covid in march '20, started rehearsals back up again in november '21 and performed in spring '22. So like 1,5 years.
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project: weight-loss*
dormant for: 6+2 years
revived 1st time after: i acquired qualia at 17
revived 2nd time after: 34min meditation session where i realized i'm not comfortable with my body
*i learned about pm pretty early, so viewing such things as projects seemed reasonable
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Wrote a longish blog post 5 years ago and have another 8 pages complete but don't feel like posting / taking it from 85% to 100%
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I have a complete sci-fi novel that I've worked on for about twenty years and finished my first good full draft during COVID. It's about three siblings with vastly different visions for exploration and colonization of the solar system and baby steps toward interstellar travel.
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Student film with mediocre post-production in 2004. Redigitized the footage in 2012 and completely re-edited with much improved ~everything~ (sound, color, vfx) thanks to far better technology and several years of experience. Finishing it relieved years of psychic weight.
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Long term refactoring project at Udemy to separate consumer and business user accounts/identities. Started idea in 2015. Shelved and considered and few times over the years then executed in 2021-22 and completed it across months.
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I was working on a to-do list app. Created the first iteration in 2020, which was just a react frontend. Then expanded on it in 2021 by adding a backend, ability to create accounts etc. and finally published it. For me, picking up projects from a long time ago is never a problem.
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