Some of today ’s most exciting fresh literature is being doled out 140 character at a time . The Atlanticreportsthat more and more writers are publishing fiction on Twitter , embracing the challenge of the role limit and come up with creative new storytelling technique .
Nick Belardeswas perhaps the first person to save an entire Twitter novel . The author posted the storySmall Pieceson the social culture medium site sporadically from 2008 to 2010 . Since then , both new and naturalized writers have increasingly started to make works specifically for Twitter . Some of the story , like David Mitchell ’s latest body of work , aboutcomputer hacker I_Bombadil , are , in part , promotional : The tale is being expel to advertise his upcoming novel , Slade House , which also fuck off its start on Twitter .
Others are just about embrace the challenges and originative chance the medium presents . In 2012 , Jennifer Egan , author ofA Visit From the Goon Squad , publishedBlack Boxon theNew Yorker ’s Twitter , while Philip Pullman , author of theHis Dark Materialstrilogy , spent several months in 2013 tweeting thestory of a friendly houseflynamed Jeffrey .
Pullman and Mitchell ’s taradiddle , in particular , illustrate the various styles of Twitter tales . While Mitchell ’s I_Bombadil man is write in the first someone , as the “ actual ” Tweets of a fictional eccentric ( stark with qabalistic abbreviation and slang ) , Pullman ’s is more like narrative poesy , with a morsel of humor mixed in :
diehard might roam their eyes , but Twitter lit is just the up-to-the-minute in a long tradition of literary experimentation . “ It ’s the role of literature to play with forms , ” Melissa Terras , professor of Digital Humanities at University College of London , toldThe Atlantic . “ With Twitter fiction , the great unwashed are taking the limitations of 140 characters and doing something originative . ”
[ h / t : The Atlantic ]
