Is it hard to write your own songs?

Since the 1960s, artists have been putting more pressure on them to write their own material. The publishing industry is still important, but if you simply write lyrics, that's not enough to interest a publisher or an artist looking for songs. As long as you know how to brainstorm ideas for your song, how to write lyrics and how to put a song together, you can call yourself a composer. When you write a new song and make a demo that you're proud of, you shouldn't release it to everyone right away.

If you write a love song and use a cliché that includes “your heart and how hard it is to be “separated”, you won't seem like the avant-garde artist you hope to be. Sending songs to friends, family and colleagues is low risk, as they won't rule you out if they don't like what they're listening to.