Heck call it music by common folks who write cause they like to. None that I know sold 5 million copies of anything cause noone I know writes what the executives in Nashville want for the under 32 generation. Cause we pretty much don't like the cookie cutter music. But it is very nice is someone wants to do one of your songs.   And there ain't nothing wrong with trying to do one to sell either. Love doesn't feed the dog ... but a great song I think comes from the heart. And there is a process, whatever that process is, whatever the muse that inspires the writer is theirs alone and it won't work for everyone. I am a beginner at this stuff. Not even close to the fine writers here. I just write what I hear in my head when it decides to tell me when. The one blues song I did do as a request on a CD.. Heck I may make a whopping 50 bucks, but it was fun to try an do something deliberately in a style that was not mine as a learning tool. They are happy with it , so whats wrong with that , nothing I think.

I read some place that Frank Lloyd Wright use to stare at a blank sheet of paper for weeks or months. He would say he was looking for the paper to tell him where the lines should be drawn ... must have worked, he knocked off Falling Water in a couple of days after not making a drawing for over a year on it.