By Tuesday night I had moved on to acceptance. On Wednesday morning, I began writing the non-article you're reading now. On the web all publications tend toward their own oblivion. Hot sites grow cold. Leaders cease to be relevant.
Sites change hands and lose their spark.
Good sites can even die at the hands of bad hosting arrangements . The editor in me sees no sense in hastening the decline of ALA by publishing half-formed stories to make a weekly deadline. The publisher in me sees no value in ignoring the Friday deadline. And so you are stuck with this non-article, this naked admission that independent web publishing, as most of you already know anyway, is personal and therefore imperfect. Apart publishes many fine writers, but never assigns a story.