This article described my exact experience with writing songs. In the end, you wind up with a bunch of half-baked, fragmented ideas that don't fit together into

This article described my exact experience with writing songs. In the end, you wind up with a bunch of half-baked, fragmented ideas that don't fit together into a cohesive whole. Music, like programming, is meticulous, but also mysterious in the way that sudden inspiration can light a fire under you. When inspiration fails, however, we have to soldier on and get the work done, all in the name of self-improvement.