I share three simple, honest tools for writing songs that feel alive: move from head to heart, let chords carry emotion, and capture ideas before judgment shuts them down. Solitude, co-writing courage, and skill-building all play a part in turning feeling into sweet songs. 

• shifting from thinking to feeling as the creative starting point
• solitude as safety 
• vulnerability and trust in co-writing rooms
• using chord and note choices as well as chord inversions to evoke emotion
• practicing enough get out of your own way
• embracing limitations on instruments as a way to get creative
• capturing stream-of-consciousness drafts without judgment
• returning later to refine things

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