After making a few posts about the rise of very short forms of fiction, including one on interstitial publishing, I found this article on how authors are using Twitter as a way to plug their upcoming books:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/the-rise-of-twitter-fiction/404761/
Well-established authors have done so, including David Mitchell, Philip Pullman, Jennifer Egan and Margaret Atwood.
Even taking into account limited attention spans, and people reading on the move, what puzzles me about this development is how easy is it for readers of a story told in 140 character sections to remember what they've read before? Imagine reading a novel one paragraph at a time, putting the book down for a while before reading another paragraph. It would be interesting to know the rate that the tweets appear, as it's a very disjointed way of reading a whole book.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/the-rise-of-twitter-fiction/404761/
Well-established authors have done so, including David Mitchell, Philip Pullman, Jennifer Egan and Margaret Atwood.
Even taking into account limited attention spans, and people reading on the move, what puzzles me about this development is how easy is it for readers of a story told in 140 character sections to remember what they've read before? Imagine reading a novel one paragraph at a time, putting the book down for a while before reading another paragraph. It would be interesting to know the rate that the tweets appear, as it's a very disjointed way of reading a whole book.
. Cheeeeeeese.