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You know those Christmas specials that you watch on the tube every holiday season, the one with the stop motion reindeer, for example, and the Charlie Brown and Grinch classics, and all that? Well, I may have failed to mention my own humble contribution to the form, scribbled on a piece of paper several bored Christmases ago. I like to re-run it on the site annually, in place of actual content updates, in the same spirit as the Christmas specials themselves.
Unrelatedly, cell phone fiction is here. All you Nanowrimists are already familiar with the form, to some extent: speed-written, no looking back. Well, flex your thumbs, because you may be texting your next 30-day literary masterwork in November 2009. All the rage in Japan for some time (even making their way to print, and bestseller status), the cell phone novel may well be the future of fiction, as the once mighty publishing houses collapse upon themselves like the Kingdome in 2000. Can't wait until November to secure your place on the bandwagon? Make haste to Textnovel at once, and commence thumbing in service of literary evolution.
Is this a challenge? Perhaps eventually, when I upgrade to a cell phone that does something more high-tech than dropping calls.
Banning the Big Black Box
5 hours ago
3 comments:
Ah, cell phone fiction. That little trend will have to pass me by, I'm afraid. I refuse to text.
I. Refuse. To. Text. That's where I draw the line. It's a phone. Use it to make a phone call or email me on the computer. Texting makes no sense to me at all and is invasive beyond what I'll allow. So there.
That's one happy Christmas tree you have there. It made me smile.
To borrow an analogy from the Pope today, saving texters from their outrage is, as regards evolution, as urgent as saving the rainforest.
I confess I tend to text people rather than call, just out of a general sense of phone-phobia.
TT, I think I like your version of the analogy better than the Pope's...
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