Dispatch from the Twitter Lit Frontier

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)

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