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New on stck: Tell your story in chapters. They can be free, for followers only, or behind a paywall. Here is an open source example. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is the classic novella of split personality. Stevenson wrote it in just a few days while sick and bedridden, and famously burned the first draft after his wife suggested it should be written as an allegory and not as a story. He re-wrote it in three to six days, and after a few weeks of editing and revision he published what would become one of his most famous and best-selling works. The story follows a London lawyer as he investigates the relationship between a brilliant scientist and a misshapen misanthrope. As the link between the two becomes clearer, Jekyll and Hyde develops into an allegory on the nature of good and evil. Source: Standard eBooks
How writers can use ChatGPT to generate ever more wonderful images with AI
We have built stck.me to solve a fundamental problem with the ”old” internet which is that writers (and other creators) cannot sell their works directly to fans or collect contributions from them. This despite the fact that tens of millions of writers have a large enough following online and readers are willing to pay.
Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. A widow's suicide has stirred rumors of blackmail, and of a secret lover named Roger Ackroyd, who was found stabbed to death in his study. The case is so unconventional that not even crack detective Hercule Poirot has a clue as to how to solve it.
A series of Limited Edition covers for the book. Vanished and extinct species in a lab bottle. All made with generated AI.
A series of experiments with text prompts to generate “exactly” what you can imagine with words.
Anything you can describe in words can be converted into an image
AI generated images have crossed the threshold of creating something useful for writers, publishers and other creators of graphic arts. That should be the biggest technology news of 2022.
In less calamitous times the latest breakthrough in the world of Artificial Intelligence would have made headlines around the world. The latest versions of text-to-image systems (DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion) are a historic point of departure from what computers could do until now. They all seem to have finally crossed the chasm from being super interesting toys to incredibly powerful tools.
You can now now upload MP4 (also .ogg, .webm) streaming video on your stck! The video can be free, for followers-only, or at pay-walled with a price you set.
Traditional publishing might be frustratingly slow and capricious but the Kindle Direct Publishing option offers neither prestige nor money.
New York City’s longest entirely outdoor illuminated color spectacle. Also, photographs as ‘digital goods’
We have built ScrollStack to make it easy to own your online identity, share work directly with followers, and find supporters or sell your creations.
Short form video on platforms like TikTok and its many clones is an epic wasteland at the moment. The experience gives pause even to an optimist like me who believes that quality should not be judged too harshly in the early days of a new medium.
The creator economy - direct payments from friends, followers, and fans- represents a huge opportunity for Indian creators. What is needed is a simple platform that anyone with no technical skills can use to earn directly from their audience. However, most global options like Patreon are focussed exclusively on enabling membership or subscriptions that are not made for Indian realities. We are not a subscription nation - we only "subscribe" to newspapers and milk. The rest we pay for on consumption - prepaid mobile plans, DTH, Cash On Delivery for e-commerce, Internet plans. ScrollStack is designed for this world and we are the only platform that:
For eBooks and audiobooks authors and publishers should aggressively sell directly to prevent a repeat creation of monopoly Big Tech platforms.
At ScrollStack, our goal is to make it easy for creators to earn money from their fans. We have built a simple, yet powerful platform to achieve that. Here are four features available only on ScrollStack that help you better monetize your following.
On the web, memes outrun rigorous analyses and writing every day. Yet the success of projects like The Conversation ("Academic rigor, journalistic flair") shows that there is an audience looking for in-depth works and expertise.
The year 2020 might be one of the most consequential for the 'creative economy' for reasons no one could have foreseen in 2019. It has accelerated many changes, as exemplified by— the unexpectedly explosive growth of Disney+ , the emergence of an obscure history professor as a publishing phenomenon, and the broad cultural influence of a 16-year-old dancer on Tiktok.
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