You make a lot of good points, but a lot of your ideas are generally negative rather than positive, and focus on individual symptoms of a poor song. For me, this ain't particularly the right way to go about it.
Beginners: If you abide by this one rule, you'll be writing great songs before you know it:
Keep Your Hand Moving. If you keep writing, you'll begin to recognise the poor qualities in your older work. I certainly produced a whole load of crap in my first few years of songwriting.
But I kept writing and writing through the crap, and began to recognise the weaknesses in my previous work. It's a personal process of growth, and no-one can really tell you how to go about it.
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