"Petrichor. It was a particular smell that wafted up when those first big droplets of rain begin to thump against the hard-packed red earth of the African savannah..." New short fiction set in one of the world's most dangerous countries. <zora.co/collect/zora:0x64A3C20Aeb8470704cFD1baE61847278Ed738bE8/2>
THE LAST ROAD
“We had never seen so many bones in one place. The scale of this so-called battlefield defies comparison with anything in humanity’s own very long and very bloody history.”
– Dr. Janis Alfarens, UNSS "Beagle"
gm - is there an optimal philosophic approach that we should all use to guide our creating and iterating as we build and inhabit Web3 social systems?
I believe there is - and I wrote a post about in on t2 - I'd be honored if you take a look and see if you agree - or what other approach you might propose! <app.t2.world/article/cly8ncf1k72951820mct0gme49g>
gm! 🌞
I'm feeling very #grateful right now & wanted to give a big "THANK YOU" to my friend RӔ & @gregyounger.lens for being the latest supporters of my #poetry on #tezos...🥰
Here's a preview - you'll find the full poem at this link:
objkt.com/asset/KT19jeQmTzZuK7U449UW2LGgEHJai2Nf2gDp/1 - 2 copies left at 2 ꜩ
gm!
I’m an #author who publishes my stories as literary NFTs.
I just gave away $256 in ETH and MATIC to 57 people.
Here’s why I did it – and why you might want to do this, too.
I began to publish my stories as NFTs for several reasons – but a big one was the ability to give back to my community, and my readers.
I've published e-books & paperbacks since 2011 - but Web3 allows me to connect with readers in a new way!
I started by committing 10% of the sales of my first literary NFT, Lethargica ( opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/96774328498251406336796476967561673150045158454467361048930857657154880405604 ) in donations to "Doctors Without Borders" - in crypto – and to spending another 10% buying art from people who collected copies of the story.
How did it work out?
Well, so far I’ve donated 0.045 ETH to "Doctors Without Borders" and purchased three lovely pieces of art from my readers!
As I began to publish more widely, I created an NFT to airdrop to people who collected any of my stories on the ETH and Polygon blockchains - find links to them all here: linktr.ee/e_h_carpenter
The intent was to gift my first 100 “true fans” 1% of my 2022 writing income from ALL sources – #NFTs, freelance work & e-book/paperback sales.
I couldn't do this with #books that I sell elsewhere – but in Web3 it’s easy because I know the wallet addresses of my readers!
As people bought my stories, I airdropped them their “gift cards” – this cost me about null on ETH, and fractions of a penny on MATIC.
At the end of the year, I tallied up who had how many cards, how much I’d made & decided that 1% wasn’t enough – I’d gift out 10% instead!
So, I ended up sending all 57 of my collectors 0.0024 ETH, or 4.057 MATIC per card they held (that’s about $3 USD) – the biggest gift was ~ $15 USD and the average was ~ $4.50.
Not a lot – but enough to buy a book, or a cuppa!
In fact, people who bought my least expensive books on Readl ( readl.co/bookstore ) actually made a few dollars!
Where else can you #ReadToEarn besides Web3?
What do YOU think of this approach?
Should I have raffled off the whole gift to one reader?
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Given it to charity?
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Used it to gift #FreeBooks?
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Something else?
I ask because I'm planning my 2023 "gift cards" now - @gregyounger.lens has already earned theirs, and you can get yours if you collect any of these NFT books (two on ETH, three on MATIC, all links here: linktr.ee/e_h_carpenter)) or any of the books that I release as NFTs this year!
OK, if you’ve read this far, thank you!
And if you’ve found this post to be of value, please share it, comment with your thoughts, and recommend some folks on Lenster who you think I should follow - I'm very new here!