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Songwriting Tip:

Radical Songwriting Suggestions

Read "The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook" by Karl Conyat and Nicholas Dobson.

Their radical suggestions include the main one: Days in which one writes 20 songs, then records and shares them with friends.

Lots of staff writers write one or more songs daily, so the song a week project seemed pretty tame to me.

I realized that having had a background as an instrumentalist playing solos, I've HAD to create on demand, sometimes a dozen or more times a night. We set such artificial limits upon ourselves. Why do we think that songs produced quickly (think rough draft) are necessarily any better than the ones we create slowly and carefully as "artistes"? Sometimes the real blazingly original ideas come out of riffing too quickly for the "editor" to knock down the ideas.

So. My tip is to suspend your assumptions about how little you can write, and give quantity a chance, at least once.