Have a plan

If you have one idea and want to provide or build a large body of work, the only way I see it, from my vantage position, is to continually iterate through the process of executing the idea.

As long as the process is continually moving on, ahead or backward, eventually you will be able to streamline it by making unconscious tweaks, till you reach a stage of stability.

If that is not what you actually want to be doing, all day and night, so be it. At the end of the entire chaos or whatever it is you think it is, you may like to go ahead with this approach.

Work through the details

It's not the devil, which is the problem here. There is no map or final destination to be traversed. In our case, it is all an imaginary piece of land or a capture-the-flag if you might call it that.

Isn't this a bit excessive. In that you are blindly hammering away at some random and arbitrary target, in the hopes of achieving an Olympic medal. Is that not unrealistic. How will you ever be able to frame a decent or a reasonably plausible argument to have a structure and then put in the ideas and then have the language elucidate your need for speed.

What is wrong with this approach,is that you may never actually reach a point, when it becomes clear that we are headed no-where and we have reached no-mans-land. The apprehension is valid, but the point we're trying to make here is that we are not in a position of arguing against oneself as there are no other ways to distinguish oneself, but for this one crazy method.

Throw it out

When there are no other exit routes from where you are, and you are also not inclined to continue willingly on this approach. Why not try a method which is not devious but is more adjusted to the path of being a self actuating individual. You will then be able to give yourself the required pep talk and also move along a parallel life of being an artist or a creator.

The toys you make, the scenes you paint and the lines you draw do not have to be realistic or make any sense to you nor to others. But it is the process of being aware, that you are now definitely on a path and it is within your mental faculties that you have accepted it to be alright, if it does not lead to anywhere.

How you handle this as things become more complex and complicated, we can figure out as we go on. But let us first start with a pragmatic approach and needle things towards a framework or a structure which leads to a book or a blog post or something tangible in the real world.