I Was a Speech Writer, You Know?

I was the chief speech writer for vice president algore. In those days, i could write a thousand words in an hour. It's not like what i do now with books. You got to bang this out right now and just pray that things don't go terribly south on you. I felt like so much of what we were doing was just jockeying for short term advantage. And it took me into my late twenties, early thirties, to realize that when i grew up, i wanted to become a writer,. That i didn't want to work in politics, that i wanted to do my own thing.