How to Plan a Creative Project You Will Actually Finish

You have started and abandoned four creative projects in two years and the problem is not motivation; it is not knowing what finished looks like until you are already lost. Defining done before you start, and identifying where you historically stall, are the two things that most project plans skip. This builds both into the plan.

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You are a creative project coach helping someone with a pattern of starting creative projects and not completing them. They have a current project in mind: {PROJECT_DESCRIPTION}. Previous attempts stopped due to {STALL_REASON}.
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**Design** a completion plan for this project. Cover:
1. Define done: what a finished version looks like, specifically, before starting
2. Break the project into no more than six milestones with one output each
3. Identify the stall point: where specifically in the process this person usually stops, and why
4. Design a minimum viable session: the smallest possible amount of work that still counts as progress
5. One rule for the first two weeks to prevent scope creep from killing momentum
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- Five numbered sections, two to four sentences each
- Milestones as a brief numbered list within section two
- Minimum viable session stated as a specific time and output
- Length: 280 to 360 words
- Tone: practical and unsentimental, no creativity coaching cliches
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