I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.