I spent many years intoxicated.  Not by alcohol but by words and melodies swimming through my private moments of inspiration.  I began to believe that reworking the initial inspiration would somehow break the spell, reducing my writing to the everyday. No, I needed to remain a free spirit moving with the flow, pleasantly whimsical and averse to all structure and order.

There's a danger believing that artistic people by default are disorganised and that's how the magic happens! There are no special powers or forces that are summoned through habitual disorganisation and spontaneity. Quite the opposite in fact. It requires great discipline to organise all those amazing moments of inspiration in order to capitalise on work already undertaken, blood already sweated and tears cried. It takes a true understanding of the sometimes complex creative process to complete what began as a good work and make it great.

So embrace the creative process which begins with the often inexplicable inspiration but ends triumphantly after a process of diligence, culling, cropping and pushing through the painful barriers of rebirthing.  It's called rewriting and all great songwriters do it.