This is usually one of my major pitfalls. It’s a trap, you feel like you’ve completed something but you also understand that it’s not really formed. It’s likely convoluted, repetitive, and surface level.
But the improv is largely done. The “fun” part. The spontaneity of ideas is replaced with something much more akin to active work. Hard thinking is needed in order to organize, expand, and define what you’ve dragged out of your subconscious.
And so, in this middle phase between ideation and organization, the project flounders and often dies.
How unfortunate.
It’s like being called in from playtime because you’ve got to do your homework. What a buzzkill.
Somehow you have to make this second part fun, otherwise its a job.