Writing Novels with Twitter

Peter Brantley
September 2, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Listen

ReadWriteWeb has a brief survey of mini serialized novels in the U.S.:

In Japan, mobile phone novels called "keitai shousetsu" have become so successful that they accounted for half of the ten best-selling novels in 2007. Here in the Western world several would-be novelists are attempting to use Twitter to create the same phenomenon. Some of the novels tweeted so far have been interesting and engaging, but others, sadly, appear to be abandoned. Will micro-format fiction ever take off here as it did in Japan?

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• New York Times: "Introducing the Twiller"
• Sydney Morning Herald: "In Japan, cellular storytelling is all the rage"
• Open Question: Do You Use Twitter?
• Q&A with Susan Danziger, CEO of DailyLit