Ever had a song ruined for you?
Some literary gossip (isn’t that the point of these things?).
Seth Godin, whose advice you may have seen already, and Jen Leo advise would-be authors (via fade theory).
“Writing a novel is a lot like riding a bike. A bike with no brakes and no gears. You’ve got one flat tire. Maybe two. If you’re on a tricycle, you definitely have three flat tires. You’re pedaling up a hill — a steep, pothole-filled mountain. And the weather? Let’s just say it’s a dark and stormy night.”
The fact of the matter is that certain works naturally lend themselves to the immediacy of the Web.
The New York Times may be the best newspaper in the United States, but it also can be one of the fustiest Nancy Nices of journalism.
“But what do you read to babies and small children?” people ask me all the time.