Jordan's World

Hello, hello! I hope everyone is doing well! I know I am, especially today! Today is the day that I move to writing full time! As you can probably tell by the amount of exclamation points that I have already used, I am extremely excited to take this leap. So, today's post is going to be about how I came to the decision of quitting my secure paycheck job and risking it all on something that may not pan out well. From a young age I've always had a passion for stories and story-telling. I can remember always starting stories and writing pages and pages only to never finish them. As I grew older, I started to read more and I stopped writing as much, choosing to focus on other things as well; history, sport, video games, girls. But that need to write always stuck with me. It wasn't the blazing fire it once was, but the embers remained, just waiting to be rekindled. Moving forward I went to University to study History to become an Archaeologist but changed quickly into English ...

In the day and age of internet streaming, it was only a matter of time that Broadway would eventually make it onto one streaming website or another. For this in particular, Disney's Disney+  has managed to be the first to the podium with it airing Lin-Manuel Miranda's award winning play, Hamilton (2020) . Miranda  had spent over six years of his life dedicated to writing, composing and making the lyrics of the play, which is dedicated to one of America's Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, played by Lin-Manuel Miranda  himself. Debuting in 2015, it has finally made its way into peoples homes and it is amazing. Having spent the better part of the last two years wanting to be able to see it and begging the show to make an Australian tour, I was finally able to see with my own eyes the brilliance behind Miranda's  music, lyrics and book. And I am mesmerized. I have watched it three times in the first week that it debut on the streaming service, as well as constantly s...