No matter the books that can be read about it, the years of instrumental practice that can be put in, or the cover songs that can be played ad nauseum, every songwriter from Bob Dylan to Brian Davis has that moment when they actually have to start writing; the moment when the rubber finally meets the road and every intangible, ethereal desire to "write songs" is forced into the Terrordome where your lyrics and melodic notes are on a page for the first time. There was a gap of about three years between when I bought my first guitar and...