Note / Introducing the MW project

Happy New Year.

Let's get into it, then, eh?

2022 is the year that I become a Metaverse Writer.

What's a Metaverse Writer?

That's part of the problem. I don't quite know.

I know that I love writing screenplays, but it's started to feel a little zero-sum lately.

I know that I'd love to write for TV, but I'd hate to live in Los Angeles.

I know that my storytelling is the thing I want to give to the world.

And I think that us writers have a new opportunity ahead of us.

My history is that of an obsessive writer of time-honored media: movies, primarily, with some short stories and aborted novels thrown in there for good measure. A handful of plays that never went anywhere. A small Alexandrian Library of high school and college-age poetry. Some songwriting.

NFTs and the mainstream birth of the Metaverse made a big to-do about themselves this past year. And I noticed. I noticed that artists and musicians are finally finding ways of getting paid, and that thriving and energetic communities are burbling from nowhere to build amazing things. I noticed that there wasn't much to say for writers, surly misunderstood bastards of the art world.

I'm going to write a bit every day about my journey. It won't always be here, but if you check my Mirror page, you'll see many ongoing "Notes for an Essay" posts that are associated with my quest to become a Metaverse Writer.

Until tomorrow.

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