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

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

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

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 Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

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.