Raw vision has street cred.

Back when the Internet was free, you could publish anything you wanted to on there, without worrying about being censored for reasons of decency, political correctness, or patriotism.

Between March 18, 2000 and now I have published over 100 books on the worldwide web, daily, as I wrote them, at The Daily Bugle, roman-feuilleton.com, and The Daily Bulletin.

That's slightly more than a book a month.

It didn't change the way novels and memoirs are written and published in America, but it changed the way I write and publish them.

It changed the way a handful of steadfast readers, the Buzzard Cult, read books.

Now, for the first time, a reader can download, print out, and read books as they are being written.

He can see how the books develop, as they grow.

He can see the progress the author is making in his career.

He can email the author his comments and the author will read them, consider them, and respond to them, in the books.

The books are not just written, and published, in real time, they are interactive, and use the material life serves up. The reader can see this happening. Can participate in it, even.

I am just now developing into what your read right here.

It's fresh, inédit, RAW.

Plato said the artist grinds his wife and family up for paint.

Truman Capote ground Perry Smith up for paint.

He became the most famous writer in America and invented a new literary form, the nonfiction novel.

He died a drunk. He never published a book after In Cold Blood.

By working in obscurity I invented a new literary form, daily typewriting. I showed what I did to my wife and family in the books. I performed vivisection on myself.

It takes awhile for New York to discover something like that, because (1) it is unprecedented, and (2) it didn't happen in New York.

No, it happened in Podunk, Chittlin' Switch, Parker, Florida.

But once it has happened (1) it can't be faked, and (2) it will not be denied.

It has STREET CRED.