Your tape player will be your best friend.
Im not necessarily writing about home recording studios (although it would be lovely to have one ready to go) but I am writing about ways in which you can record your ideas and build up an ideas archive at the same time.
From one idea many ideas form.
Word associating is another form of brainstorming in which you take a single idea and branch out from that in a visual way, similar to that of a mindmap.
By the end of the exercise the whole song is laid out in front of you and all you have to do is follow the paths that you have created.
