Songwriting tip: Start with the bass guitar first
If you want to make the songwriting process go faster, put down the guitar temporarily and pick up a bass.
Below is House Of 1,000 Pleasures from the band E-Z-O. It's from their debut album, and you probably never heard of it until you heard it here. How did I find out about it? A friend of mine let me borrow an audiocassette of it back when it was new in 1992. And where did he get it from? No idea, I never asked. Probably some other kid my friend knew.
Even though my Garmin nuvi 40LM has free lifetime maps, I decided to give the free OpenStreetMap database a try anyway.
The experience was... interesting.