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Creatives! Remember back in the day when you met an ex-smoker who told you a gazillion reasons why smoking is so harmful? Well, I'm a songwriter (and paid writer for decades) who gave up all his BAD songwriting habits to relearn the craft. I gave up wasting time with keyboard and strings. Instead, I focus on the Story-First Songwriting structure of writing lyrics. So what? Professional musicians praise the well-written structure of my songs--even when they don't play/sing country music.