Nobody can keep you from adopting Philip Roth's attitude. Although he believes nobody will be reading novels in a few years, he intends to continue writing them because that's what he does well. His life is, he says, a function of art informing society --- not for the sake of society --- not to advance certain causes --- rather because he has the ability to engage minds and open them to the wonder and wisdom of what might happen or might have happened IF...

Candy, as a writer manque I can tell you that there is highly charged magic within us. We are in danger of self-destructing unless we hurl a few lightning bolts or even the fire and ice of new galaxies out into the 3D world.

I don't see it as an ego thing. We are perhaps similar to the small creatures that make coral reefs. We do it because that's what we do. And, obviously being designed to do it as a high art form, we do it well. Sometimes even ancient and dry dictum, transformed into life-giving, sugar-laden fruit, hangs at the very next oasis. Taste it and remember who you are, Candybear. Publish or perish.

Love,
Adieu