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Hmm... I'm not sure if there's anything I can officially say "I let that go". There's stuff I've written that I know is a disaster (with, as rcentros put so well, maybe a radiator cap worth of goodness) that will never see the light of day. They sit on an encrypted drive to which only I have the key, so these will - as Death Cab for Cutie put it - follow me into the dark.
And there's a lot of unfinished/undeveloped stuff. But this isn't like graphic/video art where the work might consume gigabytes of disk space; it's all text so, so far, I've never found any reason to delete anything. So anything I've ever started but not finished is still a considered a work-in-progress. In practice, there's a lot I know I will never pick up again, but there are a few that I still hold out hope for (maybe when I retire or some such nonsense). Where there's life there's hope?
I have a project from around 2008 or so that I'm still hopeful might become a novel ... but it has to get in line after a number of more recent items that I have higher hopes for. And they all have to get in line after work that pays the bills (regrettably the small number of published works don't do that). Just today I started to tell someone that I had finished writing the first draft of a novel last year ... except then I had to correct myself when I realised "last year" was last year. Time flies.
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