Songwriting is a craft. To be good at writing songs the songwriter must nurture the skills required. There are several steps in the process of writing songs. Apply each of these to you process.

Although the information in this article is presented in a sequential fashion; you don’t always need to follow it. It is possible to deviate from the order. Actually you may find that once you have a title that you will want to revise the character descriptions. Or you may need to modify the melody to better fit the lyric. The process of songwriting is somewhat organic in that each part is intertwined with another part. Every rewrite will cause the song to evolve. There are many other factors that go into writing a song. The ones presented here will give you a springboard to start writing and composing songs.