Comments on: Launching on Twitter: Microblogged Novels

By: peter

peter — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:42:58 +0000

There has been some talk in the blogosphere about real-time Twitter micro novels, this approach would be interesting in particular genres such as Twitter crime micro-novel … A vampire did it

This is their 2nd micro-novel about criminal cases in NYC.

http://twitter.com/NYCrimeStories

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:57:37 +0000

Wired had an article about this in 2005. I’m so tired of hearing about Micro novels, flash fiction, mini novels, cell phone novels, blog novels, it’s a joke. they are short stories. there’s nothing new about this idea.
Also – i feel like i’ve heard numerous articles ABOUT this phenomenon – but haven’t seen any links to sites or ways to sign up for a current cell phone novel. Where are these things??

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By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:50:28 +0000

Well, there’s ever-more options to read novels / novellas / stories / literature in mini-portions (swedish as well as japenese!) which I guess would suggest there’s an audience for this – I wrote a post on this exact topic on my blog which has a few examples ( Give us this day our daily read
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By: David Burn

David Burn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:19:47 +0000

I’ve been working on something similar off and on for the past few months.

http://twitter.com/toxictoxictoxic