Q: because you seem so efficient and you write songs that seem so perfect, it makes me feel I should do melody/lyrics first, and that just doesn't work well for me. it makes me wonder if there's an inherently wrong way to pursue my songwriting and if I should change my work process to match a more correct way?
A: there's at least 8000 ways. you should change back and forth between changing the way and keeping the same way. so in other words, you should keep doing it the same way sometimes