The First Story I Ever Wrote

I was about 9 and 10-years-old when I wrote my very first story.  I think the title was "The Young Singers".  This was around 1970/1971.  It was supposed to be a novel, and it never got finished.  I no longer have that story.  It's long gone.  But I still remember a few things about it after all of these years (decades).

This story was about a singing group.  I think this group was supposed to be already famous and popular.  I don't remember who all of the characters were in the story.  It seems like there were about 8 or 10 people in the group.  When they performed they stood in two rows.  There was a front row and a back row.

There's two characters whom I have always remembered from the story.  Maybe they were the central characters, and that's why I have always remembered them.  These two were husband and wife.  It seems like they were the leaders of the group.  The husband may have been the front man/spokesman for the group.  They stood in the middle of the front row.  I vaguely remember three male characters who were somehow associated with the husband.  I don't remember if they were just good friends or if they were related to him.  They were also in the group - probably in the back row.  I think at least one of them played guitar.  That's about all I remember.

I don't recall now what I had going on in "The Young Singers".  At 9 and 10-years-old I was watching a lot of cartoons.  So I probably had my characters involved in various "exciting" adventures.

This past week I have been mulling in my mind a new story idea.  Basically I have pulled the two central characters from that first story and put them in a brand new story.  This time it's a love story.  Cody is a young man who has been living an unhappy/miserable life in Florida.  Melanie is a young woman who is living in Kye Valley, Oregon.  Cody removes himself from his situation in Florida and "escapes" to Oregon.  He comes to Kye Valley and meets Melanie and her family.  I'm still working on the summary of this story idea.  When this story is someday written it will be in the book (story collection) "A Light Shines In The Darkness".  No, the story won't be about a singing group.  Although Cody and Melanie may form a duet later in the story.

No, I'm not going to start writing the Cody story yet.  Right now I am working on four stories.  I really don't want to have five stories going at the same time.