It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.