Donna’s Top Ten Reasons For Writing:
10. Because it is cheaper than drinking all night and healthier than eating all day.
9. Because you can scream hysterically, using all CAPITAL LETTERS and the neighbors won’t hear you and call the cops who bring back
that jacket with extra long sleeves and the zipper in the back.
8. Because the menopause-pause, mentally searching for the right word, while fanning yourself, is not as noticeable on paper.
7. Because writing includes pounding on something, even if it is only a keyboard.
6. Because too often, the folks I need to say things to have lost one of their senses.
The common one!
5. Because unlike standing in the street doing my Town Crier imitation, writing gives me the opportunity to calm down, edit, revisit, and shamelessly exaggerate to make my point.
4. Because you can say, save, then delete the words you wish you had the “Pelotas” to say.
3. Because I’m a pacifist and hate the sight of blood, especially my own.
2. Because saying you’re a memoirist sounds better than being the family tattle tale.
and the number one reason I write:
1. Because I’m not spending 20 years to life anywhere I can’t take a hair dryer.
