Everything I Needed to Know About Learning to Write I (Re)learned Through Piano Lessons

After more than 35 years as a professional writer, it's hard to remember what it was like to be learning the craft. But thanks to an electronic keyboard, a brilliant app called Playground Sessions, and a lifelong desire to be able to pound out the opening to “Backstreets,” I have recently found myself in the beginning stages of learning how to create art -- and it's brought back all the lessons I had long since internalized about how to become a writer. In this decidedly non-musical class, I will lay out the essentials of learning a craft that I've rediscovered.