What are the first things you remember "writing"?

           I was looking at this prompt and the answer came about almost immediately. Believe it or not, my first attempts at the written word were not thesis papers on global warming, the changing nuclear family, or the state of education in America. They were stories. Fortunately, I went to school before the days of cookie-cutter standardized testing when assignments were not straight jacketed by the state core standards for English. My teachers loved to assign us stories to write. Granted, my first efforts were not Hemingway, but I learned to enjoy coming up with exotic, bizarre, and imaginative scenarios. The climax of my narrative career in grammar school was a nine page play based on the Wizard of Oz. I wrote a kind of sequel, inventing a few new characters. While I did not win the Tony for that effort, I have ever had an interest in narrative writing. I have been toying over the last year or so of writing a series of novels a la The Chronicles of Narnia. Like C. S. Lewis, I would like to present some of the well known Biblical stories in a disguised form. Maybe one day that will come to be.