Author R. N. Morris made headlines for serializing his novel, “A Gentle Axe,” on Twitter. While Twitter lit has generated reams of trend pieces already, Morris gave readers a glimpse into the experience of publishing work in 140-character bursts.
Morris analyzed the experiment on his website, Roger’s Plog, considering both his critics and his supporters. His link-filled look at Twitter writing can help guide us as we march into the microblogging future.
Here’s an excerpt: “I was interested in how this way of receiving text differs as a reading experience from sitting down and reading a book … I like the way my sentences pop up every hour. It’s interesting for me, as the writer, to see them like that in isolation. They take on, if not a different meaning, then a different power — stranger, more enigmatic.” (Via Digitalist)