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adrienne
@adrienne
Some of you know this already but my sister and I are working on a children’s book together. I wrote the story, she is hand painting 22+ illustrations. She only knows how to paint one way- by hand, with detail, in layers. She doesn’t know what the final painting will look like- only when she finishes each one will she know when it is finished. So you must believe me when I say it’s been taking her months and months and months to work on her paintings. So much effort. The only thing she cares about is being proud of the end result. There’s no concern about the most efficient way to paint, about how to leverage technology to speed it up. But this weekend we were chatting and she said to me, “what if the book is a failure?” By which she meant no one buys it. I assured her it will almost surely be a commercial failure. Our friends and family will buy the book but we won’t have wide commercial success. I also went on to tell her that the act of creation is holy. Everyone can say how easy it is to make a children’s book - especially with self publishing tools and AI art generation. But most people don’t make one. As long as we publish a book that we are happy with, there is no way we can ever consider ourselves a failure. Shout out to all the builders and creators out there- making something that didn’t exist in the world but for you doing it. Art, poems, books, articles, software, companies, food, families, communities, music, gardens. Whatever it is- you’re doing something admirable. 💜💜
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@links
How was your experience writing the book? I’ve always felt I had the disposition to write a children’s book but was afraid it was really hard.
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@huugo.eth
I hope you post a link here, because I want one.
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@ghostbo4.eth
The more time it takes the better it’ll be 🖤🫂 bet she’s putting everything she can 169 $degen
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@199.eth
What ages is it made for? Got a daughter who might need 1 💛
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@devonhdolan
If we could preorder on FC via Coinbase Commerce I’d do it right now!!
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@luciano
before my brother passed away he wrote a childrens book called “Would you still love me?” and although it was a huge commercial success the community absolutely loved it and the impact it had on those it did reach will live on forever
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Sounds like it’s already been a success of sorts. As in, the kind of success that comes with doing something well because you love it. Sharing is almost incidental, a byproduct: sometimes you make money off of it and that’s just a bonus.
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can you please create a miniapp where i can preorder the book? i would buy it now. like now. as soon as i see it. not because of being your family, but because i want to show my daughter what love is through the drawings of her
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Please bring it here once it's ready so @christin and I can promote it like we did for our books. A little effort via sending some $ to the warplet and you can send the interested ones a copy. We did this a few months back. Little farcaster book store. 🤍 see my pinned.
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@samuellhuber.eth
Get it up on Farcaster we‘ll surprise her ツ
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@synclynk
If you launch the book in about two months you should use the network im developing, i love art and I care any kind of artist. And we can definitelly connect up deeper if you’d like 😊
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Rick Rubin’s that shit real good
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@fairygodmother
Signed up!
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This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve read all week. The love, the intention, the process it all matters more than metrics.
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Very cool.
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@presidojay1
This is lovely
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@juliettemeon.eth
creating with honesty, with love & heart, even if it only means something to one person, is a victory in itself 🤍🫂 .
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@plantsnft
@librarian 👀 this hits home doesn’t it??
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@awkquarian
I wish her all the best! From my experience creating comics, it’s always worth the effort. Even if no one except you reads it sometimes. 🙌🏻
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