I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
We became the songs we wrote.
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.