Any specific new 'tricks' or techniques that you've figured out recently?
one thing that has been very difficult for me, but i have gradually begun to learn, is how to write backwards -- like how to write a section that goes BEFORE something you've already written. like if you have the chorus, but you don't know the verse. this took me a long time to learn. but i seem to have gradually learned how to do it, and i did it with both of my most recent songs