This sort of this definitely crosses my mind a lot.  An approach that I have started to adopt is the notion that when you get your initial inspiration or idea for a song, you should run with it and build up the project as much as you can right away.  Obviously this shouldn't take away from the quality... but if you have this vision for the track that you say you do, you should try to create a rough draft as soon as you can so that when you revisit the project, you have placeholders for all of those initial, creative ideas.

I can certainly relate to what you're getting at here!

Excited to kick this one off!

One thing that I would like to discuss here, and improve upon in my own production process is the structure of a song.  To clarify, I mean how to time the intro, verse, build, chorus/drop, etc.

Does anybody else struggle with turning that mixed, 16 bar loop, into a whole track?  What are some people's resources, ideas, strategies, etc?  What can be done musically to differentiate these parts of a song?