It could have something to do with the reason you wanted to start a project in the first place. If you start a project just to play with some new shinny framew

It could have something to do with the reason you wanted to start a project in the first place. If you start a project just to play with some new shinny framework/tech then it is likely that once the novelty wears off nothing of interest would remain. If however you start a project because you are excited about some product vision that doesn't already exist or not in the form you've envision then the drive to bring that idea/vision to fruition can be a powerful motivator. I wrote a blog post on this matter some time back: http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-joys-of-creativity-as-software.html http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-joys-of-creativity-...