Fear and faith: A writer contemplates his future

As the publishing landscape whirls around him, a writer finds comfort in his ability to paste a four-page newsletter together Writers, editors, do you ever get scared? I admit I get a little nervous when I read—and understand—a sentence like this, from Shel Holtz’s blog: “Hat tip to C.C. Chapman, who already blogged this and tipped his hat to Jeremy Pepper, who tweeted it.” And then I remember that a decade ago my e-mail address was still 20010223@ compuserve.com and I was still hazy on the difference between e-mail and the World Wide Web.