How to Write Interesting Songs for Piano

If you search WikiHow, you will find plenty of pages related to the topic "How to write songs" and "How to write songs for piano". However, most of these simply tell you to put aurally pleasing chords and melody lines together, and to write the notes down on a stave. These tell you nothing about how to find your aurally pleasing chords, etc. That is the purpose of this page. (This page can work for any other instrument, but primarliy for the piano.)

First of all, a lot of guides (and for that matter, people) will tell you that in order to compose effectively, you need to have a rough knowledge of theory, i.e. scales, chords, musical notation, etc. This is not always the case. For example, some artist have been composing since they were young, and could not read musical notation until a much later age. As long as you have a good feel for the music, and know what do do with your hands, then the sky's the limit.
you might like not knowing anything about notes and scales, because when you noodle around with a guitar, there are no harmonic boundaries. you are free to experiment. Judge for yourself.

Decide whether you're going to begin with lyrics or begin with piano. most people like to begin with the lyrics because then you feel as if you know what kind of mood you want the music to have. But lots of people work the other way around, so choose yourself.

Think of something that has inspired/angered/elevated you. you might want to write about something that you feel passionately about, otherwise your lyrics will have very little impact.

Watch out for plagarizing, whether it's intentional or not. Plagarizing is probable; it happens to the best of us. However, it's also illegal (as well as being generally frowned upon). So if you find that what you've written sounds very similar to something else, make sure that you hide it well. Change the melody, rhythm, pitch, whatever you want. I wouldn't recommend removing it though. The way I see it, there are only so many notes available, and if you plagarize someone else's combination along the way, so be it. Just make sure that not many people notice.
"Talent borrows, genius steals"