What is the goal? To get subscribers? If we have a lot of subscribers, does that mean people are reading? So is that the goal, to have people read our work? And then what? I mean that sincerely. Then what? To change hearts and minds? To start conversations? To make yourself known? Why to strangers? Why not to your family or friends or people in... See more

Oh, blessed be! The gatekeepers have discovered a gate with no lock and they are furious.

Let’s translate these pearl-clutching remarks into plain English:

1) “It helps them build an audience, but it distracts from writing their next book.” —An agent

Yes, because the only real writing is done in a silent stone monastery, by candlelight, with a quill,... See more

So there's a possibility that this world becomes an isolated bubble of its own, with a few people rising to the top in the bubble and the others reading them. I'm going on a limb here, but I'm saying the artistic world is becoming less democratic, and with the rewards not being proportional to the risk, fewer people have the safety net or fanatical... See more