I think you’ll be very pleased with what we’re trying to do with Pandamian. At the very least – Pandamian will be a platform to experiment with some of the concern’s you’ve had about quality and criticism and filtering, online.

It is, also, somewhat elitist (i.e.: as an elitist filter).

As to whether writers actually know how to write for the web, I don’t believe I’ll get started on that one. It’s a bit like saying writers knew how to write for the cinema in the early part of last century. Art evolves … and evolves and evolves.

Looking forward to more Novelr in the future!

You see, Pandamian deals with high-level web fiction stuff (i.e.: what’s the best way to promote web fiction? – failing which, what’s the best thing to build to promote web fiction?), and so while it won’t be as useful to the individual writer, it still would be of some interest to the community.

Essentially, what I’m saying is that I’m now interested in driving things that make writing fiction, on the web, so much better for the writers who are currently doing it by themselves.

It’s a broad set of aims, of course. The things we’re going to build may be a solution to any one of the following problems:

1) is there a better way to publish in the age of the Internet? One that, ideally doesn’t involve running the gamut of a traditional publishing house?

2) is there an easier way to publish fiction on the net? I wrote about a format for online fiction – what would that look like?

3) what can we do to make web fiction more credible?

4) is there an easy way for online writers to launch on the iPad?

5) I believe that reader-writer interactions can be made better. How do we go about doing that?

6) Is there a better way of doing what Smashwords says it does?

And so on so forth.

One thing I do know is that it’s going to be a hell of a ride. I can’t wait for it to begin!

Good luck in your new ventures, I’m sure many people will follow you there.