Run a Retrospective on a Failed Creative Project

Creative projects fail for specific reasons that are almost never the ones you assume. The instinct is to decide you lacked talent or discipline. The retrospective usually finds something structural instead: an unclear original intent, the wrong project format, a motivational block masquerading as a creative one. This makes the post-mortem useful rather than punishing.

I worked on {PROJECT_DESCRIPTION} and it did not reach a satisfying conclusion. I want to run a retrospective on what happened.

Help me analyse this using the following structure:
1. **What we were actually trying to make**: restate the original intent in one clear sentence (this often clarifies what went wrong immediately)
2. **Where the project diverged**: identify the moment or period when the work started moving away from that intent
3. **What slowed it down**: distinguish between creative blocks (I did not know how to do it), motivational blocks (I did not want to do it), and structural blocks (the project setup made progress hard)
4. **What is still worth saving**: name one element, idea, or discovery from this project that has value for future work
5. **What to try differently next time**: one structural change and one process change

Be specific about the type of project when drawing conclusions.