I get bored writing myself too, but I have the disadvantage that Im a slow thinker, so I have a hard time to come up with good lines in the moment of a cowriting session. It's been like that for 20 years with me, so it's not just that I lack experience.

For me, the best ones often come long after the fact, and then if Im in a cowriting session, the train is really gone before I have entered the station. It's different with playing, though, as Im quicker to improvise with my hands and ears, but not my mind..

I try to handle my 'slow' disadvantage by bringing a bunch of stuff to the table (to get others to work hard too laugh ), and have dictionaries beside me, so I can do it. Im amazed every time what the spontaneity of writing together in real time can achieve!

But I wouldn't only do collabs without doing my own stuff, as well. It's when I write on my own, that I feel the aphorisms and the great stories that takes a little more time to work out, really can be included in lyrics.

Of course, this is still possible in collabs if you plan for it. But different set-ups (cowriting sessions, writing alone, email cowriting, wrting music to a lyric or vice versa) can really provide a great variety in the output IMO.