You write. You should own it.
You publish a page once and it is permanent. The people who love it collect a numbered copy and pay you directly. No feed decides who sees it.
Every one of these is live today.
Follow any of them to the app that does it.
A poem
Three lines or fourteen. Pick the form, pick the paper an artist designed, and publish it once. Every reader who keeps a copy gets a numbered one.
GrammataAn essay, a letter, a page
Long prose, set on a real page rather than posted into a feed. It stays where you put it, with the same words in it.
GrammataA message to a stranger
Seal something short into a bottle and let the current take it. Somebody you will never meet opens it, keeps it, and can write back.
Bottle DropAn open letter with your name on it
Address it to somebody. Your readers co-sign it with a note of their own, and it becomes a record that outlasts the argument.
On The RecordSignal in the Static
To the Night Shift
A question for you
A poem, 100 readers
You publish a poem on a template by an artist whose work you love. 100 readers collect a numbered copy. Here is how each one splits, every time.
- 70%You, the writer14,000
- 20%Template artist4,000
- 10%A cause you chose2,000
Three things people ask first.
A platform owns my work and can take it down.
Your pages do not live on anyone's servers. They are permanent and they are yours.
An algorithm decides who ever sees me.
No feed, no ranking. Readers come to your work directly and you keep that relationship.
I never actually get paid, or I wait weeks for it.
When a reader collects your work, you are paid at the same time. There is no payout cycle.
Your pages are yours. Your readers are yours. Your earnings are direct.
See Grammata