Have you ever wanted to create your own music but decided it was impossible because you don’t play an instrument, can’t sing, or can’t see the screen very well?

That’s exactly how I felt for most of my life, until I finally decided to try anyway.

About six months ago, I had a strong desire to tell my story of slowly going blind—not as a speech, not as a post, but as a song. The problem was that I had none of the things people usually picture when they think of songwriting.

• I don’t play guitar.
• I can’t sing.
• I’m not a trained writer.

But I had a story that wanted to be heard.

Turning Life into Lyrics

I decided to focus on the one thing I could fully control: the words.

For roughly three months, I treated this as a quiet routine. I would sit down with my laptop, turn on my screen reader, and spend around two hours a day, five days a week, slowly building lyrics about my experience of losing vision.

During that time, I started listening to music differently.

Songs on the radio and at concerts stopped being just entertainment. I began to really notice the lyrics—how they opened, how they built emotion, and how the chorus summed up the heart of the story.

I found myself asking:

• How did they start that verse?
• Why does that line hit me so hard?
• Why is this chorus still in my head hours later?

I took those observations back into my own writing. Bit by bit, my story turned into verses and a chorus that felt honest and personal. It wasn’t polished, but it felt like me.

Depending on Others and Getting Stuck

Once I had the lyrics, I thought the hardest part was behind me but then I started to ask myself how am I going to find a singer and put music to the song so I just sat on it.

Three months later I appeared as a panelist at the local rehab center where I’d received my blind training. During that event I met a musician and told him about my song. He liked the idea and said he’d would love to create some music and sing the song.

I was excited. This felt like the moment my song could become real.

Then life got busy. He had other commitments, and time passed.

Later, another blind friend offered to try singing the song and adding guitar. Again, I felt hopeful. He came out with a great version but with some changed lyrics which I had agreed to just so I could get a song.

He is even taking a second stab at the song and I am so happy.

Meeting AI Music Through Suno

A while later, I met someone who created music using AI. Of course, I wanted to know how it worked.

He explained that with a tool like Suno, you could feed in lyrics and detailed prompts, choose a style and mood, and let the AI generate full songs with vocals and backing tracks. That conversation changed everything for me.

I realized that if I could use Suno with my screen reader I could take that song and actually create the song myself.

Combining Chat and Suno

At first, I tried doing everything directly in Suno, writing prompts by hand, adjusting, regenerating, and adjusting again. It was powerful, but it took a lot of time and energy to get things just right.

Eventually, I brought Chat into the process.

Here’s how my workflow looks now:

1. I write or paste my lyrics into Chat.
2. I ask for help shaping them into a strong verse–chorus structure, and sometimes a bridge.
3. I describe the feeling I’m aiming for—hopeful, reflective, energetic, bittersweet.
4. I ask for a clear, well-structured prompt I can use in Suno to capture that mood and style.
5. Then I edit the words to make them mine in case Chat changed anything.

Then I move over to Suno, paste in the prompt and my lyrics, and let the AI generate a track.

If it doesn’t feel right, I go back, adjust the prompt, and try again. Now, changes that used to take hours can happen in a matter of minutes.

As someone slowly going blind, that ability to experiment and iterate independently is incredibly empowering.

Getting Lost in the Music

One of the things I love most about this hobby is how deeply I can immerse myself in it.

Sometimes I’ll sit down “just to tweak one song” and find that I’ve spent an entire day or night working on it—listening, adjusting, regenerating, and listening again.

Every time I hit play on a finished track that feels right, I smile. I hear my own story back in a new form, wrapped in melody and rhythm.

It no longer feels like some distant dream to “have a song.” It feels like something I can build and refine as part of my everyday life.

Why This Matters to Our Community

For many people in the low vision and blind community, creativity has always come with extra barriers. It’s not that we lack ideas or feelings worth sharing, it’s that the tools and systems haven’t always been designed with us in mind.

That’s why accessible tech is about more than just information. It’s also about expression.

AI music tools like Suno, when paired with something like Chat and usable with a screen reader, open up a new path. They lower the barrier to trying, to experimenting, to making something that feels deeply personal.

They turn “I wish I could make music” into “I’m making music right now.”

If You’d Like to Try

If you’re curious about this, here are a few gentle steps you can take:

• Write a short piece about something real in your life—a memory, a feeling, a challenge, or a moment of joy.
• Ask a tool like Chat to help you shape it into simple lyrics.
• Edit the words so they are the ones you want.
• Bring those lyrics into a music AI tool like Suno and experiment with different moods and styles.
• Don’t worry about whether it’s “good enough.” Treat it as play. Let yourself explore.

For me, this all started with one song I wanted to write about going blind. Now it’s become a hobby that brings me joy, challenge, and a sense of creative control I didn’t expect to find. I never had a hobby because all the things I did in life as a sighted person I have slowly given up until all I had was a work life but I have always WANTED more than that for myself.

And if you’re looking for a place to connect with others in the low vision and blind community, share experiences, and explore ideas like this, please visit a community website for the low vision and blind community called www.visionadventurers.com that I created JUST FOR US TO FIND IDEAS LIKE THIS.