RUSSELL LAWSON

From short stories to poetry, newsletters and opinion pieces to my favorite writing, songs, I am always writing something. What I remember from an early age as an interest is music, so if there is anything in my life that I would classify as talent, music would be it. But it was not what I would describe as a "natural" talent and becoming proficient has been hard, hard work for sixty years. What might be a more innate talent or capability is creativity, which I express as writing and as musical composition including lyrics, a desire and drive that I came by naturally as the child of two artists. Early on, my creative expression was in poetry. After my grandfather gave me a guitar when I was thirteen, the poetry and storytelling that most called to me was and still is in song.

Also known as: Russell Lawson Writes, Russell Lawson/Third Floor Productions