Sometimes songwriting can feel like nothing more than a towering stack of “must-dos,” teetering like endless piles of dirty dishes on the counter. Despite your millions of great ideas, song fragments, and loops, you’re up to your neck in quicksand and going nowhere.

Does this feel familiar?

The debilitating experience of getting truly stuck is widespread and well-known in artistic practice. But somewhat counter-intuitively, research has proven that multiple concurrent creative tasks or projects…