Twitter your way to novelist stardom!

Move over ebooks, move over print books and what the heck, throw everything you know about writing a novel out the window. Well, maybe not quite everything.

Many of you are probably familiar with the micro-blogging tool called Twitter. Personally, I don’t use the service because I’ve never really had a use for it. And getting sent messages about the minutia of everyday life from people I don’t really know isn’t all that appealing to me.

Now there’s new use for Twitter – writing novels and instantly sending them to your mass following! One such writer, Matt Richtel, wrote about his thriller novel he "published" on Twitter, which he affectionately calls "Twiller" (get it? Thriller + Twitter = Twiller). You can read about his exploits in this post.

As much as I love ebooks and reading them on my iPhone, I don’t think I’d have the patience for reading a novel, as it’s being written, via Twitter. Maybe I’m stuck in early 2006, I don’t know. Call me old fashion if you want.

Writing novels to be consumed on tiny cell phone screens is nothing new. These cell phone novels have been popular in Japan for a while now. Somewhere in the dark, dank, and dirty archives of Brad’s Reader is a post about the Japanese version of micro-noveling, but for the life of me I could not find it.

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