I started writing it in 2002 and kept writing and kept writing and kept writing. This is a different version from the other two plays that we have done. The first year it was five characters. The second year it was six characters and this year it's seven.

For some reason I just started writing and out came this play. It's a series of monologs. All of the characters are from different walks of life. I have everything from an 18-year-old kid to a fourth-grade girl. There's not really a plot. It's about their reactions to how it (9/11) affected them.

I've always been somebody who wrote down my feelings and I've always liked to write. I never did any stories or poems or anything like that. I was just always writing down my thoughts.

They were writing each other and he was trying to make preparations for her to be here.

For me, writing music is kind of like a musical mirror where I write music and learn about myself in the process, and I find that very interesting. It's one of these things where from piece to piece [it] is very different.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.