Of course, you know me, if you tell me about the project I will admire you for it and hopefully will say enough nice things about it that you'll want to keep going :P

I usually only start a new project when I figure out how it is going to bring something of value to me, something that is not dependent at all on anyone's validation. That can be as simple as just it being fun. For example, I wrote about some internals of Microsoft Works because it interested me, because using that knowledge to break it in new and strange ways is funny, and because I want to document things about old software. It doesn't matter if nobody cares. I bought a camera, and have a Tumblr for my photos, not because I wanted to be famous or validated, but because I wanted to force myself to go outside and pay attention to my surroundings.

I definitely do have the depresso occasionally and it definitely brings me down, but at worst it will only make me pause some projects, not stop or destroy them, because I can tell myself that the potential value is there and that I just am not seeing it at the moment. I usually just switch to another project which isn't making me feel bad, and then if I switch projects enough like this I'll eventually circle back to that one!