Does being published online make up for not being published offline?

I have had the dream of being an author, and I would have to say it'd be more fulfilling to have a hard copy of the book, or soft copy rather then an "e-book" though as long as it was to be advertised for people to see it, I would guess it wouldn't matter.

I guess if you have a large amount of netsurfers who read your stuff.

If you use a POD (publish on demand) printer, you get to have real books to hold in your hand and sell both online and offline. I use lulu.com and am very happy with them. See my books at www.lulu.com/lougrantt. . I say, go for it. Write it, get it done, rewrite it over and over until it's perfect, then decide which publishing route you want to take. Good luck with it.

It doesn't. I still dream of the real thing. I actually don't feel like a writer if I only see my name and my publishes online even though they are more accessible here than getting printed in hard copies. But I atleast wanted to see my name as a writer of an article in a newspaper IF I won't be able to write a book or a novel. A web article won't make up for that dream.

In my opinion, a writer is a writer. Each one of us will have different dreams for our finished products and some of us will always dream of the traditional book in hand. How one feels about their published work, whether in hard copy or ebased, will vary from writer to writer. It is a matter of goals, dreams and aspirations. What is ever important is the art form, the writer and the content being delievered. The medium in which these works are produced seems less important to me.

Hi taraelocin,

I actually liked being published online. The things I have written have tended to be based in the worlds other people create (I write fanfiction mostly) so the only place I can be published is online, unless I want to get into wars over copyrights and stuff lol. I really enjoyed it though because the process of getting something published the first time taught me so much about how to write stories, and especially about grammar. Until I tried to get something published I never used commas, so my work got rejected, but the moderator taught me what to do - well pointed me in the right direction at any rate - and so now if I ever write something outside a world already created, I definitely stand a better chance of being published

That said nothing would ever beat having a shelf full of my own books in hardback sometime, they are much easier to show off lol

All the best,
Dranz

Well, I feel that sometimes being published online is a helpful start to eventually seeing your work published somewhere offline, as long as you continue to stay focused and accept the challenges and criticisms you might experience as on online published author as well. As there are many ways to get noticed online as a Writer and many sites you can write for, including magazines, etc. it really depends on what your interests are, and goals are for sure. But if you are really wanting to be a published author I say go for it all and see what happens. You might actually surprize yourself for sure.

I have always wanted to be a published author with the hard copy and everything since I was a teenager. I ended up doing other things with my life and now I'm trying to get back on tract and someday publish a real book and not online. To me being published online is not exactly what my dream was and its not as good as the real thing such as a hard copy published book.

Feeling. Published hard. A copy and having a book. Author writing something might excite opportunities to be published. The real thing.