Elle Griffin
Bio
Studying utopia. https://www.elysian.press/
Stories (15/0)
I built a castle to save the economy
This piece of short fiction was originally published for The Elysian. Follow my work there. Back in the 2020s, everyone was in a tizzy about population collapse. The thinking back then was that if we didn't have enough children, they wouldn't grow up and generate enough money, and the economy wouldn't be big enough to do expensive things like cure diseases and build space colonies and come up with teleportation.
By Elle Griffin28 days ago in Fiction
Could AI make us wise?
The internet caters to our baser interests, surfacing clickbait news, ragebait on Twitter, thirst-traps on Instagram, the dumbest thing you can watch on TikTok, the most attractive person on your dating app, and the cheapest things you can buy from Temu. They cater to our love of drama, our superficiality, our hedonism, to get us to scroll, click, buy, and spend our hours addicted to the screen. They make more money that way.
By Elle Griffinabout a month ago in Futurism
I'm writing a utopian novel
Becoming a journalist In 2014, I launched Over The Moon Magazine on the side of my content marketing job. I started the magazine because I was a marketing writer and I wanted to be a magazine writer and editor, and bridging that gap felt impossible. At the time, I was living in San Francisco, it was in the middle of the great recession, and there were no writing and editing jobs available - even if there were, I didn't have the experience to compete for them.
By Elle Griffin2 years ago in Futurism
What if I write a fantasy series in public?
The sci-fi series Foundation inspired Elon Musk to launch SpaceX. Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea inspired Simon Lake to invent the submarine. Verne’s Clipper of the Clouds inspired Igor Sikorsky to invent the helicopter. Mary Shelley’s use of electricity to rouse Frankenstein’s monster inspired the invention of the defibrillator.
By Elle Griffin2 years ago in Futurism
I'm wrote an NFT story for the Loot Universe
I’ve been following Loot Project for awhile now—largely because it was the first NFT project to use words instead of images and I was curious if this would finally be the place where writers could play in the web3 world. It was.
By Elle Griffin2 years ago in The Chain
I'm going to write the novel of the future
In 2018, I did a reverse Marie Kondo. Instead of going through all of the things I already own and asking myself whether those things sparked joy, I started from scratch. I asked myself what would bring me joy? Then I got rid of everything that wasn’t that.
By Elle Griffin2 years ago in 01
Do I even want to write another book?
Three months ago, I penned a post entitled "the one where I get off the internet and start writing fiction again." When I published that post, my day job was in a pretty demanding state and I realized I would only have time for one creative hobby - I decided that hobby was writing my Utopian novel.
By Elle Griffin2 years ago in Journal
To make it as an artist you have to be an entrepreneur
Nishant Jain is the author of SneakyArt, a newsletter in which he secretly draws the world and shares all of his thoughts about it. He also happens to be part of Substack's fellowship program with me where we've been engaging in long discourses about art and how we can make a living doing it.
By Elle Griffin2 years ago in Journal
- Top Story - January 2022
What I've learned from one year writing a Substack newsletterTop Story - January 2022
It was one year ago that I finished researching my article No One Reads Books (and other truths about publishing), and determined that my best hope as an author was to create a platform for my writing.
By Elle Griffin2 years ago in Journal
- Top Story - January 2022
What if we fund artists the way we fund startups?Top Story - January 2022
Margaret Atwood has a new novel coming out in 2114. You read that correctly: the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale will publish her last book Scribbler Moon long after we are dead. We won't get to read it, our kids won't get to read it, but maybe their kids will - and that's kind of the point.
By Elle Griffin2 years ago in Journal
- Top Story - January 2022
I crowdfunded a novel using crypto (and minted the chapters as NFTs)Top Story - January 2022
I was recently texting back and forth with a certain startup founder turned angel investor turned crypto enthusiast named Scott Paul. He’s something of a personality in Utah’s crypto scene—not only has he successfully founded and funded four startups (and invested in countless others), but he also owns an eccentric number of wigs and has a tendency to teach crypto classes at BYU dressed like Jesus—this is kind of what he is going for.
By Elle Griffin2 years ago in The Chain