What is the daily work of songwriting?

Collect words. Collect interesting words and phrases. Free-write. Write poetry.1

Collect sounds. Stockpile music in [[ Tunes ]]. Make demos. Practice. Learn other people’s songs. Write parts for songs in-progress.1

Pair words and music.1 I tags words and melody by poetic meter, e.g. iambic quadrameter, kind of like hymn-writers do.

Just doing one of these things a day is enough.1

  1. How to Write One Song ch. 5 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

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What counts as showing up to songwriting?
What counts as showing up to songwriting? Even looking at a blank page for your scheduled creative time counts.