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Originally Posted by yep
Ideas are seeds-- some of them grow, a lot of them don't. But most of them require water, fertilizer, and so on. If you have a good idea, then mark it down as such and never doubt it. If it sounded like a good idea the first hundred times you played it, then it's a good idea. If it loses its lustre after 300 attempts, that's you, not the idea.
Work in small chunks. Switch to something else when you start to get bored or exhausted, but don't give up on the idea, just put it on the shelf for a while. Know and accept that a lot of it will be a chore. Massive amounts of work go into producing movies, plays, novels, and records that seem effortless. Even cooking a good meal.
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Great lines. One thing that I've noticed is that the great ideas seems to have the ability to sound good and touching after a couple of month if one let it rest on the shelf. Just as good or even better than it sounded when you first played it. I recently picked up one or two songs that I wrote about 6 month ago. Songs that left something in my mind that grew over time and made me think about them even though it was a long time since I played them. And they just sounded so "right". So just by letting a song rest one can often determine if it is great or just good. And as a home-recordist one often can afford that luxury.