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

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

I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that belongs to the heavy-hitters, the canonical writers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and even Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Thomas Bernhard, Sebald, Borges, DFW, e.g.

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

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.

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.