They are in the drafts.

Some pieces will only ever be a draft.

Find your favorite creative/artist/auteur and look at their work. Their work is beautiful. Absolutely stunning. Some of the best pieces you’ve ever seen.

Now, do you think you have access to everything they have created?

I don’t know about you, but I feel like most of the work I create never gets published anywhere. They live on my hard drive as a draft.

Now that’s okay. It’s okay to leave pieces in the drafts. Not every piece needs to be fleshed out or finished. A lot of the time these ideas give us inspiration to create and we just need to start creating to see how it turns out. It doesn’t need an audience. It just needs to be created.

If the reason why you don’t create is because you don’t think it will be good enough to publish, then just don’t publish it. Still create it. Take the pressure of publishing off.

An idea can lead to another idea. An idea you had years prior can come back as inspiration for your next project.

We are so caught up in this content machine where algorithms are basically asking you, “what have you done for me lately?” Creation is a process that needs time to develop. Life needs time to develop.

Allow yourself to develop. Leave projects in the drafts and be happy with that. Create for yourself. Your drafts are a beautiful personal museum of your creative journey. Appreciate your museum like you would of your favorite artist.