An extension to the journal tip is to keep all your old songs. Keep the music and lyrics every time you decide not to use a song. You may often find a use for it later when your skill has improved. You may find when reviewing all the songs you wrote and tossed aside that some ideas that you had years ago are actually quite relevant now. Use the old riffs and scraps of lyric to break whatever ‘block’ you may be experiencing, or reconstruct entirely new songs. In many cases, you will find that they are much better than their predecessors are.