Overdue Residue

The blogging community is a writing one. Some write journals, others compile recipes, some postulate on the human condition, and some write fiction. At any rate, if you read this, you are a writer of sorts. Often in my history of post-writing there have been lingering ideas, subjects I want to write about. Sometimes they build up and I finally write about them. Other times, they meet oblivion itself.

I'm in the same situation in the musical world: musical ideas build up, never get finished because I either forget about them or never progress with them. The greatest cause for the latter is not knowing how or what to do with them, usually lyrically. I'm surprised at how long I can hold on to an idea without it fleeing the confines of my memory. In fact, I remember some unfinished ideas that I wish would fly the coop.

What am I to do with these? Some of them are good, others I love. How do you shock the writer's block? Do you ever give up on something you feel passionate about?