Get a bunch of ideas together that will probably represent about 4 bars of the song, when I feel ready hit record and fire a loose structure, then spend the next week adding intro, outtro, breaks, crescendos...probably the point at which the real song comes into existence; always end up diverging from the initial idea. Recently I've gotten much more patient, more willing to ditch things that don't work and re-do large sections. I don't really create in any hyper specific style, so I guess my music follows fairly generic patterns of western music (4 beats, 16 bars, kick / snare). I don't purposefully set out to be 'wacky', but I also get bored quickly..