"Now, there is no gatekeeper. There really isn't. You can get your writing in front of the world by posting it. All you have to be now is incredibly good and interesting and readable, which is a different challenge."
Now, what exactly he means by this is unclear.
Possibly he means "you can develop a following, receive no money thereby, but leverage the following to get credibility with conventional middlemen such as record labels and publishers, and from them, you can eventually obtain a career involving money."
His own solution, in the eighties when he was unknown, was much simpler and more conventional: He cozied up to successful people such as Douglas Adams and Alan Moore to get connections, and then he leveraged those connections.
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Here is the quote I'm talking about:
http://www.consumingexperience.com/2008/11/neil-gaiman-on-piracy-vs-obscurity.html
"Now, there is no gatekeeper. There really isn't. You can get your writing in front of the world by posting it. All you have to be now is incredibly good and interesting and readable, which is a different challenge."
Now, what exactly he means by this is unclear.
Possibly he means "you can develop a following, receive no money thereby, but leverage the following to get credibility with conventional middlemen such as record labels and publishers, and from them, you can eventually obtain a career involving money."
His own solution, in the eighties when he was unknown, was much simpler and more conventional: He cozied up to successful people such as Douglas Adams and Alan Moore to get connections, and then he leveraged those connections.