The Beginnings of Writing

So with the start of this Vocal website a question comes of how does this story begin? Writing? I have always been good with writing. and I have always loved writing. When i was a kid, i used to write poems all the time. By the time I was in Elementary school and there was the occasional assignment to write a poem, I would sit down at the kitchen table and write out a poem in ten minutes usually. My mother would usually ask me if I finished my homework and I would answer in the affirmative and she would ask to read it. Nine times out of ten she would be crying and immediately call her cousin on the phone to tell her about the poem I had written. Because of that affirmation, I continued to write poems happily and give them to my mom to rad. I thought it was just a hobby just for fun as well as an attempt to show off. When I was a kid, I knew nothing about writing or even theater writing beyond writing poems for fun. Then I was 7 years old when I saw my first musical. It was a Saturday night, my mom and I took the train from Beverly into Boston, a twenty-minute train ride. I remember walking through the street, in a button down shirt and nice pants and it being a really big deal to be going into the city from Suburbia We walked through Fanuel Hall right up to the Wang Theater, now called something else and we saw Phantom of the Opera. I remember looking at this immense stage and this HUGE chandelier and seeing these figures, we were in the balcony, running around the stage and I don’t think I understand what was going on but that night, I fell in love with theater, but it wasn’t until I was 9 and I saw Les Misérables when I realized something even bigger: Someone writes these things. Two years later, my mom and I took the same exact trip on the train from Beverly to Boston for a night at the theater. I may have been wearing the same exact thing I wore the Phantom night. But for some reason, the impact from Les Misérables was amazing. The minute the music started and the minute I saw the show, maybe I was closer than the balcony when we saw it, I immediately was in tears of the beauty of the show. Maybe it was because I was older and I understood the story more but I just saw the beauty of the show and I couldn’t get it out of my head and I immediately realized that someone had written this music, someone wrote these lyrics and someone had sat down and put the book together and created this show. I'm a little embarrassed but I was so naïve and moronic to never realize before Les Miz that someone or some people write these shows and spend years trying to put on a show. I never even thought that someone sat down at a piano and someone else sat at a table and wrote a show and that through workshops and other methods, the show goes upon a stage. But then I saw a documentary about Les Miz and I saw the writers talking about how they created the show and put their fingers to the pen and then to the paper to write this show and I was amazed. I just couldn’t believe that people did this for a living. That day, I said something that I would find out later many other writers said the same thing like Jonathan Larson, Jason Robert Brown, and Lin Manuel Miranda, I want to do that! TO BE CONTINUED!!!!