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Patrick:
I'm gonna have to go ahead and back Gaz on that one, Ed. I feel intense dissatisfaction when I'm flipping through my Book Of Words and I'll look at a song that I started but didn't finish. The mood/muse for that specific song is totally gone for me by time I get back to it a week later.

I frequently have difficulties like this when I record a song idea onto my little 4-track scratchpad. If I write music and then leave it for a week, I'll mostly just wind up leaving the entire song idea. I've wasted so many brilliant song ideas (which I'm still keeping just because I think they're wonderful) because of the fact that I didn't jump on it as soon as I could've.

Maybe I am just bad at focusing, so I'll go ahead and ask. Do you guys have any tips on how to stay on the ball once I get it rolling?

pinkpiche:
Well from what I've heard, most professional songwriters (A.C. Newman, Nick Cave, Björk and others) sit down and write for a certain amount of time every day. Some days you'll write something and work the whole time, some days you won't write anything at all.. Of course that's hard if you aren't doing it full time. I think a certain amount of focus is really helpful. Other than that, I think that most songs are a mixture of moods - quite a few artists take their time with writing.

imapiratearg:
That's sort of what I do.  I just kind of let it come out in the natural process of things.  I keep ideas and stuff in my head or in my notebook and then I'll go back when I find a moment I can really focus and then it's just about assembling the pieces into something that works.

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