Here you go - every article on how to capture songwriting ideas:

This is quite an inspirational piece for me as a songwriter.
So … there’s this guy, Jonathan Coulton, that decided to write a song a week for 1 year. He would post a new song every Friday that he recorded in his very modest home studio. He dubbed the project “Thing-A-Week”.
He started out not really knowing […]

I was poking around Google’s Blog Search tool and found some pretty cool songwriting blogs. There are some that have great promise. I would love to see more frequent updates - so head on over and let them know what you think. Leave a comment to let em know you were there:

Ultimate Songwriting BlogAt the […]

Readers Ask: I have a fairly decent song I wrote in one sitting. Lyrics and music. I was amazed at how well it came to me. Should I leave it alone or should I try and rewrite?
Great question.
From a professional songwriting perspective, the answer is almost always a resounding “yes”. Professional songwriters are constantly looking […]

Gadsby is a novel written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright. The unique feature of this novel was how he wrote it. He actually tied down the E-key of the typewriter so he was not allowed to use that letter in the entire novel!
While some might see this as unimaginable and a task of almost […]

Over the summer we had quite a few stories and inside scoops on the biggest songwriters (and singer-songwriters) in the industry. In case you missed them, here are some of the best:

Songwriting insight from Daniel Powter and another interview with a great quote here.
Garth Brooks and the writing of “That Summer”
We All Can Take a […]

Sure he can!
The following account is taken from one of my favorite websites - Story Behind the Song.net (my only problem is I wish there were more stories!)
The Story Behind “That Summer”
written by Pat Alger, Garth Brooks.
performed by: Garth Brooks
|Interview with Pat Alger conducted by Adam Olson |
“That Summer,” co-written with Garth Brooks, was […]

(This is the final article in the series “Songwriting For Beginners”. We are filing the series under the Songwriting Basics category.)
Last week we ran a series on Songwriting For Beginners that was remarkably successful. We hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for all the kind comments and thanks to Jeff Oxenford for contributing such a great […]

We’ve written about him before, but singer-songwritier and ex-Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty talks on his blog about writing songs in anticipation of a September recording session.
“I’ve been trying to write more songs for a session in September; time is limited, obviously, and I don’t have the sheaf of culled phrases from months of journals […]

Rikk’s Revues talks about Songwriting Organizations - The 5 W’s
The creator of American Idol talks to the LA Times about their new songwriting competition to run on the next season. (Login might be required. It wasn’t required the first time but it was the second time. WTF?) (An update to the competition has been posted […]