How to Keep Writing Songsā€”Even When You Donā€™t Feel Inspired constraint based writing idea generation songwriting inspiration songwriting prompts writing to pitch Feb 09, 2025

One of the most common struggles songwriters face is not knowing what to write about. I hear it from students and professionals alike: "I just don’t feel like writing," or "Everything’s great—what am I supposed to write about?"

This is where prompt-based writing (also known as...

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Why Lyrics are Both Easy and Hard crafting lyrics lyric craft lyric writing songwriting songwriting education songwriting prompts writing lyrics Oct 14, 2023

 

For whatever reason, lyrics seem to be both the easiest way into songwriting as well as the most challenging. Easy because they access language that we already have - no need for harmonic or melodic vocabulary - but hard because there just isn't a lot of real estate to say everything you...

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