Scholar and Scribe

By Dibbler | Dibblers Tales | 9 Jul 2022

After quite a hiatus from Publish0x and a heavy focus on projects more directly related to a specific chain or ecosystem I've decided to stop back in and drop a post here for a change. Liquid Mike made the point of bringing it back to my attention as we chatted about a few things in Discord...

For the last little while I've been posting on Hive almost exclusively.

More than that- I've founded a writing community on the chain called Scholar and Scribe. It is a creative writing focused community backed by our own tokens and curation incentives. Mike made a post recently talking about it and all of the details can be found in the Hive community and in various pre-existing posts. So I wont get into all of that today.

This post is really about reintroducing myself and testing the Publish0x waters as a space for creative writing... My previous posts of that nature on the platform didn't exactly do that well and left me thinking perhaps it just isn't the write space for creative content. Creative writing deserves to find space in Web3, however, so Scholar and Scribe and a variety of other projects have been doing exactly that- building spaces for creative writers to post and earn for their content.

After all... wouldn't most of those 10,000 pfp projects be so much more engaging with an actual story behind them? The same holds true with some of the Play 2 Earn games. What is out there is in many ways lacking in engaging storytelling. So it's about time writers in web3 shifted some of the focus away from articles describing tokenomics, trying to put together the spiciest take on the current state of the market, and shilling our favorite projects.

Instead let's start bringing our creativity to bear and create unique spaces with interesting stories and encourage the writers to actually create something novel and unique. At Scholar and Scribe many authors are releasing serialized works that are posted on a regular basis and enable readers to engage in a continuing storyline. Some of these efforts are collaborative with authors passing control of the story back and forth week by week. Others are finding outlets for poetry, song lyrics, and including varying degrees of gamification in their plots to enable the readers to engage more deeply with the story they are reading! Even affecting the outcomes and changing the direction regularly.

These sorts of novel and rewarding experiences are beginning to demonstrate just what is possible for authors to create in the web3 landscape. As communities and projects like Scholar and Scribe continue to develop and grow we will see just what they are capable of and what kind of potential they unlock.

A creative mind hidden

locked behind the bars

of a chart.

Candles and wicks

the only inspiration

for scholarly pursuit.

Scribes! A whitepaper is not your Muse!

The chart is but a tool,

to parse information,

but it should not inform

every one of your creations.

Set your pen free!