How do you get good at anything? How do you win an Olympic medal? How do you become a neurosurgeon or nuclear physicist? The answer, of course, is obvious. However, the answer to the question: 'How do we become hit Songwriters? is not so obvious. Think of Songwriting or any creative endeavor as a muscle we all have that needs to be developed, honed and built to achieve success. In order to build that 'songwriting muscle' it needs to be exercised just like any other muscle. This book introduces a series of songwriting-muscle-building games and exercises that bypass theory, academics and road-maps that claim to be recipes for hit songwriting. There is no such recipe. The games and exercises in this book point to hit songwriting, without us trying to write a hit song. Hence the title of this book: HOW TO WRITE A HIT SONG WITHOUT REALLY TRYING Once the games and exercises outlined here are followed, used and mastered the path to hit songwriting opens up and the possibilities become infinite. These games and exercises have been developed as a result of a lifetime of workshops and seminars conducted around the world by hit songwriter John Capek.