Writers, Non-writers, lend me your eyes!

For all you writers out there... (and especially musicians and poets) how do you deal with how the words starts to come to you?

Usually I'm just sitting around when I start getting lines of poetry in my head. So I grab either a pad or open TextEdit (whichever is closest) and just go. Hopefully I can get some semblance of a poem out before I run dry, but sometimes I don't. And when it just stops, the piece always looks half done. But I can never get myself to merge it with something else. They're all their own creatures in a way. How do you deal with that?

And sometimes I'm tired and want to go to sleep or I'm terribly busy at the moment and can't write them down. Then I feel like they're lost in the proverbial wind of my mind. Because I can never remember them exactly the way they were later on. I assume a song that's born by music first is just as frustrating, yeah?

I just wrote three different half-done poems in ten minutes, wth.

And hey, it's been ages since I've done Six Degrees. So give me some people to match up! If you don't know what Six Degrees is, here's an example:

Vanessa Marcil and Billy Crudup: Vanessa Marcil - The Rock - Nicolas Cage - 8MM - Joaquin Phoenix - Inventing the Abbotts - Billy Crudup

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