I write because......

I write because I can, because when I dance I am unco-ordinated and I dance like a dad, I can't sing because the last time I did, I practically screamed 'Walking in the Air' at my mum and since then I think I've kept it to a dull roar and nobody has heard me above the sound of my cd's.

I write because I can't act, although reading through my convos or scripts or reading as a storyteller I can put the words across in various voices, but on stage I clam up, I can't project my voice, when I try it dribbles out of my mouth and falls off the stage, so only the first row hear it. I try to project but it sounds angry and too loud and hurts my throat.

I write because I love words, and the invention of new words. Words that have not been used before or are ever likely to be found in the Collins Concise Dictionary. I write because without it, I would be like the hundreds of people who walk their kids to school in the morning and wonder if this is what they left school for?

I write because I've always wanted to be a writer and if there was a point where I couldn't I think I'd cry.