Helpppp in a moment of inspiration I started writing a song that I'm really happy with, but then the inspiration passed and days later it's still where it started and I can't seem to figure out what to do with it now
this is normal, except for those rare cases where you can improvise an entire song. Most of the time you will find yourself in this situation, the 'second' half of the process, where you will be tasked to 'work' on the song, and find ways to coax or conjure up those inspirations again. i have some tricks. One trick is to just look to the original moment for answers. continue to tell the story of where you were and how you were when that first part came up. and another standard procedure is to run through the entirety of what you have, in order, in real time. another standard procedure is to ask categorical yes or no questions about it. "can it end here"? .... "does it want more of the same patterns?".... "does it want something completely different?" .... also another thing that happens is if you think about it for a while and then stop thinking about it, you might get the answer when you stop thinking about it. thinking scares music away sometimes