Summarise Your Creative Project for Someone Who Asks at a Party

Someone asks what you are working on and you say 'oh, just a thing' or you give them the four-minute version and neither is right. A creative project is hard to describe because describing it exposes it to an audience it is not ready for yet. This builds three short descriptions in different registers that you could actually say, captures what is genuinely interesting about the work, and tells you which version is most likely to lead to a real conversation rather than a polite nod.

I have a creative project I am working on and I find it hard to describe it to people without either going on too long or underselling it. Help me build a one-to-two sentence description of my project that I can use in casual conversation. The project is [describe your project: what it is, what it is about, where you are with it, and how you feel about it]. The description should: capture what is interesting about it without sounding like a pitch, be honest about what stage it is at, and sound like something I would actually say rather than a press release. Give me three versions in different registers and tell me which is most likely to lead to a genuine conversation.