[jacksimmons]

I'm with Viscount in that for me the DAW is just for arranging. I write my songs by coming fooling around on my acoustic, coming up with a basic idea or hook or melody, then writing the rest of the melody in my head and fitting chords to it. I write my lyrics at my PC on Word usually some time after the tune. I only think about loading up my DAW until way after the actual song is finished in its raw form

[rightly]

I'm slowly learning the daw
I sometimes try to take a finished song and get it into daw Sometimes I fall flat on my nose. lol.
it changes, never the same. The process exposes a lot of my weaknesses and I press on hoping I'll learn from it.

exciting stuff.