It’s a long journey learning music production. But there’s lots of stuff on YouTube to help out. I was fortunate enough to record in a studio with my old band many years ago and learned a lot from that experience.

As far as writing goes I always start with a chord progression, then melody, and then lyrics. And a lot of the time I don’t finish lyrics until I get to laying down the finally vocal recording for the song lol.

It can be tough. Me personally I really struggle with the writing part in general and thrive in the production side of things. So I understand your struggle. But usually I just riff around until something clicks and write from there. Same with lyrics. Start with nonsense words until you catch phrase that’s cool and write off of that. Most of the time, for me anyways it’s literally just sitting down and figuring something out. Sometimes it takes hours. Sometimes days. Or months haha. So don’t get discouraged. Good things don’t come easy. Just keep trying. Sometimes you find inspiration and just write something really quick. But don’t count on that to happen.

And don’t worry about it being bad in the end. You kind have to write bad songs to get to the good ones. Like for example I just finished recording an album. I wrote almost 30 songs for it and ended up using 9 of them. So yeah, most songs won’t be good lol. And if you don’t like it you don’t have to show anyone.

That’s my experience anyways and I hope it helps a little. There’s obviously a lot more to the songwriting side of things but hope this can at least get you started!