How do you CREATE?

It is important to commit ideas to some medium on a regular basis.

Its funny, I don't do a lot of this until way late in my creative process. I might write down chords or notation well after I have begun producing a finished product in earnest! I avoid working on an idea outside of my head for as long as possible so I have really explored the abstract musical elements internally and know all the things I think I CAN do and which things I ams rue I want to do with it. I find that when Is tart writing stuff down or noodling on guitar or piano it loses something and my scope narrows. I don't generally wanna lock an diea in a physical form until I can already imagine what most of it should sound like.... then I might try to find and name those harmonies as chords, jot notation down, create some sounds etc.... this is really hard to describe and it seems to be opposite of how most pop/rock/dance musicians operate. its probably why my songwriting is a bit different than most people's even though it sticks in some pretty traditional forms.