I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.
I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.