Find something that gives you inspiration and meditate on it..... Another thing to do is to journal your thoughts and feelings. Something happens when you write down what you are thinking about.

Use a notepad, portable recorder (for melodies), try to learn different song in different music styles....be open minded :).

I write a LOT, although not lyrics so much. I don't often have trouble putting out lots of writing because I've learned that even when I don't feel creative, all it takes is to just START WRITING.

You just sit your butt down and start spitting out whatever crap you can think of. "I like butterflys. Rainbows are nice. If Mariah Carey and Renee Flemming had a deathmatch, who would win? If Renee Flemming read this, how hard would she hit me? If I died from the impact, would I have to mingle with Mariah Carey, or would her immortal soul and mine coexist in mutual dislike?"

Then once you've got your fingers moving, you get on to the real thing you were trying to write. Anything goes--"It's so lonely here by myself, wish that I was someone else, can't keep up with all your lies, getting tangled up in mine, all the webs we tried to weave wont be the things that keep us company."

That's total crap-writing... but I can expand on it, and I can go back and work at it. It's often not so much about creating something brilliant instantly... you need to get out a rough idea and then hammer that sucker into polished gold :D.


Writing is not like singing. In singing you have to get it right -now- because you can't go back and say, "Sorry, that was bad... lets perform this again! Hey... where'd the audience go?" but in writing... you can spit something out and then go back and fix it. Who's going to know? No one! People get to see the finished product.


Good luck! I know my method isn't for everyone, but it's always helped me.