That's the part I struggle with.  I always want to make something that is good quality (to my ears) and I know while I'm writing that I could make something better if I just spent more time on it.  But health management is pretty important if you plan on getting up the next day without being totally destroyed!  In Australia the due time is 10am Monday Morning... which means you have all night Sunday if you let yourself slip.  I've had nights where I've just pushed on though and gone straight to meetings on Monday morning (still riding the wave), then sat down at a cafe afterwards and had the staff wake me up half an hour later because I've fallen asleep!!

I've found I have to make the cut off for delivery 1 or 2 am Monday morning!  And stick to it.  I'm struggling to do that... "oh, just another half an hour"... but yeah, there's a point where you just have to release -something- !  And knowing everyone is in the same boat helps.

Lots of great advice above. Mine would be that momentum is greater than quality. You will have a week (I've had many) where you've no time and what you hate the track you're doing. Finish it and get it out and move on, to quote Ian Curtis "You have to finish every song, because there's always someone who loves it". Also you will learn what your go to technique is to get it done. Once you know you can always finish it, then your taste will constantly force you to improve. It won't be each week, but keep going and you'll get there. Also the community here is amazing, supportive, understanding and constructive.

On a practical note, I have a standard arrangement mapped out in a midi channel on my DAW and another with standard transitions. Then get an 8 bar loop, get a variation, bingo verse & chorus. Then strip back to drums and an element for intro and outro. Lay it out, and do some effects automation, render and master on Landr. On my bad weeks this has got me through.

That too.

Simply create all the time.  Well at the least, every chance you get.  That way, WB isn't too bad to stay on top of and gives you a nice platform to release tracks on that would potentially never be heard.

going deep into the woods and sacrificing old floppy disk drives to my dark lord & master works for me.

Protip: Open your project file on your laptop/desktop ALL THE TIME, Leave it open... ALL..THE..TIME...even when not directly working on it.

Helps when you end up playing your song file throughout the week whist at work or something in the background etc..
keep chipping away
(pls add your protip)

+1 to just making something. It gets easier every week and even in a bad headspace/uncreative mood one of the best things for me was to persevere and create something.

All that being said, don't leave your instrument at school. Now I can't record anything!

i know it's been said already but in wb2014 i really learned the importance of 'just doing something'.  whether that's a quick improv jam session or a series of drones.  after a while i got used to that flow and ebb of having a few 'proper' pieces interspersed with a filler track when i was short of time.

I'm fortunate in that I know I'm never going to come close to perfection with my songs.  But, occasionally I will finish one and be like "Whoa... I made that!"  And that makes all the others worth it.

i know i'm going to write a lot of music that sucks this year but i think that's a good thing and i've completed my first track and am just really chuffed to be involved and to see what everyone else comes up with )

Dang, yeah I really need to do this...

Actually what you gotta do is cleanse your chakras. Spin them clockwise, and make double sure the aura of your solar plexus is yellow. It's the only way.

Yeah but for real, just work on something. Write what you can, select your favorite rhythm or motif from your brainstorming, then work off of that. An interesting initial 4 or 8 bars can carry you really far.

Yeah, I'm hoping my focus for this year can be long-form jams with the occasional prog song thrown in. I'm also playing around with the idea of extreme repetition as a deliberate stylistic choice; so much so that I may actually have to disclose that when uploading tracks, for fear of people commenting saying "this is too repetitive" when it is the main focus of the track

I'm glad so many people like my advice. One of the most damaging things to come out of the romantic era is the idea of 'perfection'. Ugh.