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.

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.

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 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.

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

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