Literary Magazine on the Blockchain

in #fiction6 years ago

Heeeeey. So, I've been batting this idea around and there are enthusiasts and then of course skeptics.

I hate that The Paris Review probably gets 20,000 submissions for every 20 or 50 stories or poems that they post.

Same with Granta.

Same with the New Yorker.

I mean who are these gatekeepers, anyway?

The reason they don't have enough room is because they aren't PAID.

Can we create a better model?

Can we incentivize readers with tokens and then incentivize writers by paying them?

Can we find a happy medium between a free-for-all like Medium and then the elitism of the traditional literary magazines?

If so, have any ideas?

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Isn't that what Steemit is, a medium between readers and writers?

Yes, but I'm thinking we can decentralize a group of editors...so, you know, with traditional literary magazines there is an editorial board that accepts or rejects most writers. There is such a limited amount of space! It would be cool to have a centralized group of readers who SELECT what pieces to put in the magazine...so, not everyone could post...or maybe they could...once an editor worked with them through the process of refining something., I dunno, I'm just brainstorming. I'm a published author...so I like the process of refining my work with an editor. But editors won't edit without pay....or they shouldn't anyway

Are you talking about doing that with an app, magazine, newspaper, website, network, or specifically the Steem blockchain? I like the idea of having editors for apps but not for the root of Steem itself. I do not want an editor to reject what I write on Steem.

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