If you have a good internet connection at your home and some free time you can do all kinds of fun things. If you like to read a lot you will find that there are many online authors these days. This includes famous authors who have either posted their writings themselves, or had a big fan spend time posting their writing. I was really happy to find out that one of my favorite poets had been included on one of these sites where there are a lot of online authors and their work.
His poetry books were not widely available and had been out of print for a long time. I could find them in my favorite school library but that was the only spot I ever saw any. A wonderful person who had access to all of this writer’s poetry collections had taken the time to transcribe them all onto the internet. I was so happy to find these poems. I saved a few of my favorites by printing them out and I got to savor them later for years.
The internet is a fantastic tool for people to share writing. There has never been anything like it. Think of how an internet site like the popular video sharing sites get so many thousands of hits on the most popular videos. This is truly amazing. Almost anyone can have their project become public, or become one of thousands of online authors by posting their writing on their own website or on some of the wonderful public writing sites. Everyone has heard a story about at least one person who has become well known because of the internet.
In past times when publishing was confined to the world of books, it was much harder. People didn’t get to experiment nearly as much with information sharing and the only way to effectively do research was to go to a library.
