...... BUT, it is still creative, Russ ... much like various types of 'pop' music today, it is created for the profit motive, and there is nothing wrong in that ...

I have not written much, and I don't know how much 'substance' there is to what I've done, but generally I am inspired by what's happening around me ... I've written a song about my first lost love,(haven't we all?), and then songs that pertained to my 'new love' who became my wife, and a couple of 'blues' type tunes about situations I was in during those particular times ...
And, absolutely, I have 'composed' stuff just playing around on the kb, but not anything I've saved for further development...
And if any of us performs an 'ad-lib' solo, we've just 'composed' something ...
t.