I've promised myself to pick up the guitar a little more often this year - sometimes it's hard to remember that I love writing songs when the pressures of work and life push the songs aside. I've recently returned to writing unaccompanied styles of song, as they offer very different challenges and perhaps reward wordplay more. Also, they can be sung anywhere, anytime, which is a bonus. I've been writing songs since I was about 19. The songwriters Colm Sands, Kieran Goss, and Tommy Sands lived...