Q: How do I focus on making songs when every time I try and focus it feels like my body is acclimating to poison.  Is it ever possible to truly just sit down and induce it?
A: hm, i'm wondering where you are in your relationship to the desire to do songwriting. in other words, why are do you want to write songs, has it ever happened before, etc.. For example, if it's the case the songs tend to throw themselves at you when you are least expecting, but yet you can't seem to 'induce' them, i can understand that and i have various things to suggest. If you've seemingly never had song ideas before of any kind, then i might recommend something different, and again would want to know more about your relationship to the desire of songwriting. And depending on your level of music experience vs word writing experience, i might recommend freestyling a lot in text-editors, or if your word writing experience is ahead of your music, then i might recommend improvising a lot on a chordal instrument, possibly while singing, there are all kinds of things which i might suggest depending on your background and how you have progressed so far