Just a Few Tips.
Try to identify your concept. What is important to you? Do you have a message you want to project to change society? Or have you got a vision of the future (or the past or present for that matter) that you want to turn into a story? Or do you just have a story to tell, plain and simple?
Once you've got some kind of storyline in your head, try to separate it into various themes or moods for different parts / scenes and WRITE THEM DOWN. That is very important - if you don't start writing SOMETHING down at this point, you'll never get anywhere. You don't have to have any songs in your head at this point - just moods and themes.
If writing a story based concept album, it is usually easier to start with writing the lyrics first. This way, it will be much easier for you to fit your music to the story as you can fit it to the lyrics instead of being unsure as to how much music will be required to tell certain parts of the story before adding the lyrics.You might try watching your favorite films and making up songs based on them. Some people go so far as to try and synchronize albums with films. Just be careful you're not directly copying the film's plot or characters.
WARNING!
You might start out trying to write a concept album but get so distracted by all the great songs you're writing that you forget what the concept was halfway through.
If you can't think of a concept, then you probably don't really want to write a concept album anyway. Just write a regular album! You can always come back to the idea of doing a concept album when you're more experienced.
If you can't think of a concept, then you probably don't really want to write a concept album anyway. Just write a regular album! You can always come back to the idea of doing a concept album when you're more experienced.
