Q: When you have a good chorus, what's a good way to come up with a fitting but different enough verse, and vice *verse*a?
A: if the chorus doesn't belong at the beginning of a song, then that can be a huge puzzle. one trick for that is to let the chorus play out and see what it wants to go into after that. write the second verse first. it's almost impossible to write something that goes before another thing that already exists. it's kind of like pushing a dog on a leash