Writer's Block 2 and Sound quality too!!

you know I was a bit nondescript after reading the last post about writer's block. I know from experience it can feel like you will never be able to write a song again. It is truly a troubling feeling. In my last post I kind of brushed past what to do, and I am sorry for that. Detachment has always been a great way to deal I guess.
Anyway, if you really are having trouble, I always go back to what inspires me first. Whether that is a feeling, the water, the mountains, the woods, whatever it may be for anyone of you. I always find it calming and inspirational when I am alone, usually walking. I don't know what it is maybe it is the rhythm? But I am always inspired by water. There is a bridge in Boston I have walked over probably 500 times, I would say I get an inspiration 50% of the time I walk over that bridge. Looking at the water, looking at the way it flows out into the ocean, I don't know, it is so speculative I guess.
The other thing though is alternate tunings. You know drone tunings or things that make you hear melodies differently can be very inspiring. I love the tuning, DADGBD tuning, it has this primal drone feeling. Also using a capo can change a melody or thought process also.
I always write the melody first and then come up with the lyrics, but that is just me. There are so many ways to approach a song. Dropped D, Open E, Etc.. I have been using a capo recently to get the pitch I like, it has ben working great. But inspiration is really the key, if you open your heart, the music will come through.
As far as sound quality goes, I think I have had my say about that. But there is one more thing I will say about the download a song, MP3 generation. When I write music, I tend to think of it as a body of work. There is a beginning and an end. So song selection and placement on an album, I still call it an album, sorry, is key for me. I tend to spend a whole lot of time on the placement of songs and the proper order to represent the body of work. I guess kind of loosely like a novel. Where there is a beginning, a middle, and an end. Well how do you have that completeness if you download one song? That kind of pisses me off. To me, a body of songs is a snapshot in someones life at a particular moment, just because one might be catchier than the other ones doesn't matter. It is the whole that matters. I don't think people understand that anymore, and that is sad. I think there is something to be said for taking the whole piece and then breaking it down, but hey, I am a dreamer, always have been. What do you think? I think it is important, but I really feel it is getting lost in the download THE SINGLE!! world of today. That's too bad, some of my favorite songs are the, "deep cuts" of albums past. I hope there is a future for that. I don't know what it is, but I hope there still is!! Joe