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I totally appreciate and see the validity of your 2 hours per day approach and your thoughts about why that works.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

In addition to the things you listed, starting with some kind of drum/rhythm track that has varied sections somehow seems to help me get songs written. I find that doing basic drum rhythm first and then adding music later is easiest for me. Then I can go back and fine-tune the drums, so to speak, but usually, the music I come up with fits the rhythmic parts (and vice versa) pretty well already. (Sometimes I “match” up old melodic ideas with new rhythmic parts, I suppose, and sometimes that works just as well.)

A sure-fire way for me to get nothing done is to wait until I feel inspired to work. I have to “write through” lack of inspiration to get to the inspiration.

Oh, and when I’m writing, I make sure that come hell or high water, I get in 2 hours per day (or more). I’ve thought about making a certain amount (time-wise) of music per day, but sometimes it’s 2 hours of figuring out one line of lyrics, that, when I do figure it out, it “enables” the rest of the song to happen somehow. Or it’s 2 hours of figuring out how a chorus flows into a bridge and then back into the chorus again. So, some days I may not add on any length to a track, but I may solve some problem that needed to be solved in order for the song to progress. If that makes sense.