Web fiction writer L. Lee Lowe’s got a post on web fiction over at the National Book Critics Circle:
Let’s be blunt: writers who self-publish online are failures, right? I reckon nine out of ten of you—no, 99 out of 100—are thinking, yeah, too right, though a few may be inclined to be magnanimous and a few more may even have a friend or two, at the very minimum a Facebook friend, who has posted a poem at her blog, added a fiction page to his website.
Oh, and it gets better.
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She’s quickly becoming the voice of independent online fiction writers, or maybe I’m just new to this and am just starting to see her everywhere.
Lee’s one of the rare literary writers who’s into publishing on the net. She’s a real gem. (And, yes, she’s been around for a long time now – she just has more literary chops than most of us). ;-)
PS: Read Corvus! It’s an amazing book, the kind that makes me jealous, as a writer.
No, Eli, please don’t be jealous. First of all, Corvus is terribly flawed. And more important, each of us has a unique vision and unique voice, and at a certain level of craft comparisons become pointless.
@Lee: I think Corvus is fine. No really, it is! And while I like the idea of ‘above a certain threshold’ – I don’t think it’s a good philosophy, in the long term. We can always improve, as writers. =) I think jealousy can sometimes be a good thing (Stephen King, for instance, regularly admits he’s jealous of Steinbeck’s ability … but then again Steinbeck is a little … inhuman.)