Comments on: is short the new black? http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/is-short-the-new-black fiction matters Tue, 22 May 2012 07:22:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » I’ll see your 140 characters and raise you 55 words. http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/is-short-the-new-black/comment-page-1#comment-8027 Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » I’ll see your 140 characters and raise you 55 words. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:02:48 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=4163#comment-8027 [...] a primer on Twitterfiction from the FWR blog [...] [...] a primer on Twitterfiction from the FWR blog [...]

]]> By: Simone http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/is-short-the-new-black/comment-page-1#comment-2688 Simone Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:41:16 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=4163#comment-2688 As a self described flasher (flash fiction writer), I appreciate the challenge of conveying a great story in under 1,000 words and I think flash has merit. Twitting stories does not. Not to me. They're commercial snippets at best and Twitter driven drivel at the worst. But it does speak to a person's desire to create and as a writer, maybe I shouldn't be so quick to impugn the creativity of another. It is tempting though. As a self described flasher (flash fiction writer), I appreciate the challenge of conveying a great story in under 1,000 words and I think flash has merit.

Twitting stories does not. Not to me. They’re commercial snippets at best and Twitter driven drivel at the worst.

But it does speak to a person’s desire to create and as a writer, maybe I shouldn’t be so quick to impugn the creativity of another.

It is tempting though.

]]> By: Sung http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/is-short-the-new-black/comment-page-1#comment-2684 Sung Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:22:22 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=4163#comment-2684 Keeping it short: No. Yes. Some are calling this "hint fiction" -- there was even a contest not too long ago: http://www.robertswartwood.com/?page_id=78 Keeping it short:

No.
Yes.

Some are calling this “hint fiction” — there was even a contest not too long ago:

http://www.robertswartwood.com/?page_id=78

]]> By: marissa http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/is-short-the-new-black/comment-page-1#comment-2682 marissa Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:36:31 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=4163#comment-2682 I share a lot of Paul's knee-jerk aversions to one-tweet stories, but are these even stories? Are they poetry? What makes a string of text belong to either of those categories? I share a lot of Paul’s knee-jerk aversions to one-tweet stories, but are these even stories? Are they poetry? What makes a string of text belong to either of those categories?

]]> By: Paul Dorell http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/is-short-the-new-black/comment-page-1#comment-2681 Paul Dorell Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:36:44 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=4163#comment-2681 As a self-appointed critic, I'd say this is symptomatic of the erosion of the narrative form that has accompanied the growth of electronic media. Short stories are limited enough, in my opinion, but a story in 140 characters is a joke. At this rate, a sustained thought will only last 2 seconds within a few years. I am reminded of what D.H. Lawrence said about America shortly after arriving in 1922: "It only excites the outside of me. The inside it leaves more isolated and stoic than ever." I vote for more 400+ page novels and less solipsistic tweets. As a self-appointed critic, I’d say this is symptomatic of the erosion of the narrative form that has accompanied the growth of electronic media. Short stories are limited enough, in my opinion, but a story in 140 characters is a joke. At this rate, a sustained thought will only last 2 seconds within a few years.

I am reminded of what D.H. Lawrence said about America shortly after arriving in 1922: “It only excites the outside of me. The inside it leaves more isolated and stoic than ever.”

I vote for more 400+ page novels and less solipsistic tweets.

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