Item 3 of the Incomplete Manifesto doesn't mince any words:

3. Process is more important than outcome.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

I know that shifting our focus to what we are doing (the Now) instead of why we are doing it (the Plan) can be tremendously freeing, and can lead to insights and novel approaches. But what if

• Process and outcome are not separate?
• Processes, like outcomes, can be repeated?
• Insisting that process drive outcome is an outcome?

How this Relates to Songwriting

Take time to play, to write, to compose for no reason. In Zen, this state of being is called mushotoku. If you feel a direction emerging, an impulse to take form, honour that direction all the way to its outcome. If not, no big deal.