Why I must keep writing... (2003-07-07)
I am heading to law school in less than two months, and so am tapering off my freelance writing. But I'm determined to keep updating my blog. A quote from today's WordSpy explains why:

"The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition--in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery. But there is also the minority of gifted, willful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
--James Joyce, Irish novelist and short-story writer, _Why I Write_, 1946

I'll be thirty this fall. Best keep writing, yes.