I wanna punch writer's block in the throat

Writer's block is no joking matter. Am I the only one who thinks there should be a vaccine or over-the-counter drug to fix this? Writer's block pisses me off every time I get it, and I hope someone out there can relate to this.

A few weeks ago , i was riding a train (simple enough right?) and had a burst of inspiration. Cool. I started writing. So far so good. I wrote about 4 different verses. Sweet, maybe I can make three of them into one song and be lazy lol. Fifth verse starts coming along and I cant find a word that rhymes with Orange. That was the word. Orange. After trying ridiculously hard to find something (looking only in my memory) i decided to write something from scratch. Excellent idea right? Take the L (loss for you non-slang speakers) and move on with my life. It would have worked out except I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I was going to write about.

So I just wrote a random line and stared at it for like 3 stops. Nothing. Turned the page and wrote another line. Nothing. I hate wasting pages in my Rhyme book so i closed it in frustration and would have cried if it hadn't been for this PYT wasn't sitting across from me. This isn't the most recent example. However, it is the funniest one IMHO so I shared it with you. 

Damien Black's Writer's Block Cure (Patent Pending so no swagger-jacking)

I find the only sure way to win the fight against writer's block is.....don't fight it. Watch some T.V., Play a Video Game, call a friend, call a 'special friend'. Doesn't matter just stay away from books and music for a while and chill.

If anyone else has a home remedy for writer's block, Holla atcha boy!

How to write a song

Someone asked me how I write songs. I've wondered this same thing about other writers and I am going to open up a discussion about this subject. I think the issue here is the methods used to construct a work of verbal art that is 'sick', 'ill', 'dope', 'crack', 'fire' etc... This post can go one of two ways. You can get some vague unhelpful advice on songwriting, or you

can read on.........

Okay. First I'll share how I write a single stand-alone verse (written freestyle {lol}). Then I'll share how I write full length songs.

HOW I WRITE STAND-ALONE VERSES.

I just do. Let me explain. First I listen to the beat I'm writing to and take a max of 2 secs to evaluate the emotional direction I'll go in. Next, I'll activate a train of thought focused on the verse by thinking of previous lines I've written that go in the same (or a similar) emotional direction. Once a line or a full bar come to me, i write it down and that becomes the first line. Finally to top it all of, i just write whats in my head, which basically turns it into a freestyle I wrote down.

HOW I WRITE SONGS

Very similar process to how i write stand-alone verses. the difference being once i finish the first verse, I write the hook and tailor it to the first verse. Then I take a few minutes to decide what i want to do with the lyrics, the subject, the feeling i want to create, metaphors that i can't go without using, and the flow. For example, I'll decide i want to be simple, talk about world hunger, make people happy about it, make a metaphor about Sally Field, make the first line of a bar more syllables than the second line.

If anyone has a different way of making their art, let me know, I am very interested.