Q: only to rediscover it much later and realize that it was actually a really good idea? if so, may you share some specific examples?
A: the idea for the current song, i didn't remember it when i found it in the list. so that is an example of something not scrapped but forgotten (forgotten by my mind, but not by the list). And an example of something that was 'scrapped' but not forgotten, would be the "hey, what's the name of this game" section of "just did a bad thing." i was fairly convinced that that section just didn't work at that point in the song. so it was scrapped for that song (although it was certainly not 'scrapped' entirely, just for that song. i just added it to the list as its own song. so i don't know if that counts as 'scrapped'). but then after trying some other things in 'bad thing' i went back to it and realized it was the best thing i had