Small Print:
For our purposes, we can count independent lyrical ideas as long as they are at least 1 verse long and musical passages as long as they contain two different parts and are more than 30 seconds long.
I really can't say for certain, but I started in 1995. I probably wrote 8 to 10 sets of lyrics that first month I started, then through the rest of high school I wrote sets of lyrics in virtually every class, so it could easily be around 1,000 tunes just in HS, then there was a long dry period when I wasn't motivated (in fact, I sold my Line6 2x12 and my Fender Squire: only electric guitar I had at the time; this was also the time I got my first acoustic), so I probably only wrote 20 to 50 songs until around 2001 when I again had a cave in which to work on my madness. Mooowhahahaha.
We'll put my number at <b>2,000 to 2,500 songs written</b>, probably around 400 to 800 with some sort of music, around 1,000 or so "just lyrics", and probably a few dozen guitar riffs that never found a tune (likely cuz they sucked ass). I would guess only 100 to 200 have "good" songwriting technique, whatever that means.
I did permanently lose a few dozen tunes when I lost a hard drive that I had not backed up.
While over 80% of my music is on the computer, I have a box full of handwritten lyrics somewhere that I will one day enter into the computer. Probably a bunch of adolescent nonsense written in HS.Peace!
I hope that wasn't a wedding gift. Still, I did it just the same. 
