Tag Archives: fiction

War of the Worlds 2.0

October 6, 2008 – 12:26 am

Kris Kowal; friend, former Apple coworker, and JavaScript god; has taken the ideas in my previous Twitter Fiction entry and the (much-earlier) work of Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul and he has written up a plan. You must read this plan.
It sounds to me like Halloween on Twitter is going to be a blast this year! [...]

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Twitter Fiction

October 3, 2008 – 11:22 pm

There have already been several different attempts to bring fiction writing to Twitter. A couple come to mind:

140novel: An attempt by Leo Laporte and the hosts of the Buzz Out Loud podcast to collaboratively write a work of fiction 140 characters at a time, apparently without knowing where the story was going beforehand. Obviously it [...]

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