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Hmm. Big question. I can only tell you some of the things that have worked for me (aside from doing this as my job and so theoretically having the time to get stuff done.) Thread to follow... https://twitter.com/BigBadCarbon/status/1253429494779572226">https://twitter.com/BigBadCar...
1) Try to do the full recording, start to finished mix, in a day. That& #39;s how most of The Beatles& #39; songs were recorded, and Prince& #39;s too, and those guys did A LOT. It& #39;s okay not to get it right and come back to it, but more fun than weeks of drums, followed by weeks of bass etc
2) Set yourself challenges: e.g. I want to make a song like Under Pressure. If you fail in a cool way, you might come up with something original. If you fail in a rubbish way, you& #39;ve been busy and maybe learnt a few things.
3) Don& #39;t wait for inspiration. Sit and play. Record your ideas. At worst, you might spend a couple of hours worrying on something which is totally crap. I do this all the time! At best, you& #39;ll come up with something which you find exciting and want to finish.
4) I& #39;ve approached lyrics in loads of different ways. For the 2nd School of Language album, I sat in the studio for two days looking at a blank screen and typed snippets of prose. Anything that came into my head, hoping that the this I wanted to write about would emerge.
I then edited most of the lyrics for the whole album from the few thousand words I wrote in those two days. For the Trump album, I started with song titles and each eve, I& #39;d ponder what might happen in a particular song. I& #39;d usually written the lyrics by the end of the next day.
For Making A New World, we had an overarching concept, and for each song, by deciding who was telling the story, the songs almost wrote themselves.
