Page 14 - Song Maps - A New System to Write Your Best Lyrics - Simon Hawkins

on their journey too.
Tools not rules
I often get asked,
"What's the best way to write a great song?"
Frankly, if standing on my head naked in a bucket of cold water would guarantee I would write a blockbuster hit every time, I would certainly do it. Even if it happened one in ten times, I'd probably still do it!
But life is not like that.
I'm sure you know already; there is no single right way to write a song. Not even in the writing rooms of Nashville, where hundreds of co-writers sit together each day and hammer out hit after hit; while the physical environment may look familiarly creative, and there are some unwritten conventions about how a co-write generally might unfold, these are certainly not hard-coded or written in stone. The only rule is that there are no rules and people just get on and write the best song they can.
So it is in this spirit, of offering tools, not rules, that I write this. Let's now look at my top-five reasons for using Song Maps.