While I’m quite happy to continue with the construction of the song, I feel it timely to remind the reader (and intended writer) that editing is a good practice to get into. I had jagged a couple of good complete songs a couple of times when I was particularly inspired and went off on this reverie of belief that this was the way.

Now I write both instantaneous pieces and ones that are worked on. I don’t even wish for a definition. Not when it is such a reliable process.

So, while we’re in the middle of talking about beginnings and ending, I want to encourage you to embrace editing as you go along. You’ll get an idea of when you are most receptive to making minute changes to a work in progress.
I just looked back on the first verse of that song and I can’t see what it was I wanted to edit. So the urge to change wording isn’t always consistent.

I did come up with a possible title: ‘The clay that we’re composed of’

The effect that this approach had on my writing is that I didn’t default to the catchy line that often also forms the title and chorus. And not writing from the title meant I was defining the direction to a lesser degree. Indeed, there’s an argument for saying that the verses hook up without looking like they were made for one another. Each are discrete and complementary. Discreet and complimentary.