For those of you who are on X (formerly known as Twitter), a little fun fact: I've started posting my novel Ragnarok Conspiracy, a novel that was born on this platform six years ago, and a novel that I believe to be the world's first Web 3.0 first published book (there were some authors authors publishing their previously pubished work, but I believe I was the first to write and publish a novel on HIVE (then still called STEEM) first, and on ebook channels later. It was born here.
After sales for my novel dropped to zero, I decided to make my book free on all channels. Free though with a tipping jar, so people could still show their apreciation, either with crypto, or through PayPall with fiat money.
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Apart from trying to squeeze some more income from my novel out of it with the tipping jar though, I tried also using the oportunity of having my book now free to get some attention for my coinZdense project. The idea was, Rarnarok Conspiracy is set in a post cryptocalypse world. A world where the monetary system has collapsed after a large scale quantum blockchain heist, what better promotional material for soliciting funding for my pet post-quantum project.
Problem is, I really want to work on the project, and I think it's important, but I'm cought in a legal stalemate with my (still) wife. A stalemate that I need substantial money for to get out of and restart my life with a clean slate. So when I'm faced with the choice of working for free on my own unfunded pet project or make some modest amount on money on overtime or contract work, the choice mostly ends up for the activity that makes me some guaranteed money.
So now I'm trying for a new audience and if it gets me either tips or donations, I'm going to treat my 95% of what comes in, if anything comes in as project donations so I can really put some hours in to my project.
But it's also an interesting experiment. I got myself blue when X was still called Twitter, and one of the features it has is the ability to send longer tweets. The length of the tweet isn't limitless, but its quite big, big enough for most of the chapters from my book to fit one chapter in at a time.
But long tweets are only part of what is needed, A tweet is still something that stands on itself, or normally it is.
There is another new feature on Twitter that is helping. The highlights feature. You can make any tweet on X part of your highlighted collection, so if I only highlight the chapters of my book, I'll have a nice place where things come together into something resembling a book.
There is however one caveat to this idea. The problem is, Twitter will show your posts anywhere, including highlighted posts, in anti-chonlogical order. That is, the newest posts are on top, the oldest ones at the bottom.
So how do we work with this? Well, simple, I post my chapters or chapter parts if a specific chapter is a little bit too long for one post, in reverse order.
Today I posted the last part, Part V of my novel plus the epilogue, to my X highlights.
I'll post the other four parts of the novel to X over the weekend and maybe next week, then when the whole book is there, I'll throw maybe €200 at an X promotion, hoping to draw in a new public for my fiction and hopefully some sponsoring for my pet project.
If this fails, and I hope it won't, I think I'll need to conclude that my pet project should go on ice till my divorce crazyness is all over and I have my life on track again. I don't want to admit it to myself that I need to prioritize short term financial considerations over doing what I know deep inside needs doing, but it is my current reality. So I really hope this idea pans out, and re-publishing my book on X in this way will expose my writing and my pet project to a new public that could hopefully see value in at least one of the two and help me fund my pet post-quantum project to a sufficient level that I can put substantial time into it once more.
