A folder full of half-finished projects isn’t creativity. It’s a museum of first weeks.

Beginning is the most enjoyable part of making anything, so it is easy to keep returning there and never go further. Each new start hands you the same pleasant rush, and not one of them asks you to solve the boring middle. A pile of openings can look like productivity from outside while nothing has actually been made.

Open the folder, pick whichever is closest to done, and finish it even though you have gone cold on it. Shrink it until finishing is possible. Then start something new, having proved to yourself that you can close one.