Building text in AppleScript, then writing to a file

How do I do this?
I have a script am working on...
property nameOfTrack : ""
property nameOfAlbum : ""
property nameOfArtist : ""
tell application "iTunes"
copy name of current track to nameOfTrack
copy album of current track to nameOfAlbum
copy artist of current track to nameOfArtist
end tell
So far, all that has occured is gathering the data.
I need to make data look like this:
nameOfTrack
nameOfArtist
and have it in a specified text file.
Anyone can help????
I'm noob to AppleScript and cannot find detailed instructions on how to do all this. Been tearing apart existing code to get to here.
Beavis2084

thanks, but no. Doug (very cool script author) has not covered this one - at least as i can find on his site.
Kind of a custom syndication here. Thought it would be cool to display the current track that is in my ears on the front of my website.
Beavis2084

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