It was always a book report or a twenty page paper on a foreign country or something like that. Don t worry. I m right there with you.
Artistic people don t respond well to constraints.
Heck, we re the ones who always want to color outside the lines. The good news is that deadlines can be your friend. Promise to send someone a demo package. Write a song for an upcoming event or holiday. The last time this happened to me, I realized I had been suppressing the urge to rework my entire demo package.