Written as a keynote for the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, August 2020 I’m going to get right to it: why write, anyway? What’s the point when we are dying? This is the only starting point I can imagine, because this is how writers seem to have begun the pandemic, talking about this. We wanted to process things on the page but we didn’t want to publish in haste. Or our forms didn’t fit. Or we were sick, or trying not to be; we were homeschooling or homeschooled or we were the teachers; we didn’t know… Read More »Why Though