Songwriting is spontaneously triggered by something or someone. Sometimes a phrase, a word or whatever. At the cafe, church,????? lots of places. Dry spell last longer, the longer I stay away from music and let the real world press in.
The other night on Country Memories RFD TV songwriters series, Vince Gill and others talked about there are only 6 story plots or song subject and you overlay your personal life experience to tell a story.
Right brain creates music,art, emotions, left brain tries to translate this to the rest of the world. Think of it as this, you got drunk one day and talked to a chicken about all the problems of your world, then you saw that chicken scratching in the dirt, you pick up your guitar found that beat and made a hit song, cause most have had that type of experience, mine was with an armadillo but I forgot what he said, so no hit song.
Wyndham