You know what would be crazy? Just deciding to skip punctuation.

Cormac McCarthy, the bestselling and Pulitzer-winning author of books like No Country For Old Men, The Road, and Blood Meridian, famously didn't like quotation marks, felt they cluttered the page, and so he didn't use them.

When dialogue happens in his novels, there are no quotes around it, and you as the reader just have to figure out when a line is narration or dialogue. He also didn't use semicolons or exclamation points or certain other forms of punctuation. While he didn't exclude commas entirely, he did minimize them, and instead used extra "ands" in place of where many other authors would use commas. He used periods normally.

His prose isn't my cup of tea, but there's no denying his success, and it goes to show that you can kind of just do things.

Lack of proper punctuation can lead to serious misunderstandings.

"Let's eat, Jerry." "Let's eat Jerry."

"How do you do, Sally?" "How do you do Sally?"

And the infamous "Eats shoots and leaves." vs. "Eats, shoots, and leaves."

I suppose an excellent writer could display his skill by still conveying the right meaning without punctuation, but that just seems like showing off to me, sort of like trying to write a whole book without the letter "f." The art of writing would suffer.

To me, a really great novelist conveys not only the words and thoughts, but also the rhythm of his characters' speech. Raymond Chandler would be a prime example of that. Can't see how that can be done well without punctuation. It was developed over the centuries for very good reasons.

All the musicians I know usually love playing gigs, but not every gig. They often feel they have to take shit gigs to get their name out. Its pretty normal to get paid a couple hundred bucks and a drink voucher for a 4 piece band. After gas and bar tab, most musicians walk out with less in their pockets than they came in with. Some musicians straight up pay to play. And not always because they just love it so much...

It's usually because thats the only way they feel they can continue pushing to get their name out there.

This valueverse, demu, v4v ecosystem - whatever the fuck we're calling it, finally gives artists options. They can keep grinding and add this as additional reach/income. Or they can do this instead of shit gigs so they can focus on whatever else they deem more worthy.

Its powerful because in this ecosystem, the cream rises to the top on merit. Artists aren't hamstrung by a third party telling them what to do or how to do it. Perfecting their craft isn't in lieu of marketing. Sheer strength of talent and proof of work to produce the best music IS the marketing.

Any guidance would be appreciated!

Introduced to bitcoin in 2021. Hodlr since 2024.

New to Primal/Nostr.

Interested in building a bitcoin future.

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I want to contribute to the world in an impactful way. Fiat isn’t it.

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I think this is the right way to do marketing - can’t wait to hear your thoughts on this approach.