How Not To Tell A Story On Twitter
What was wrong with Jennifer Egan’s Twitter fiction experiment for The New Yorker.
A user’s manual: This disembodied stream of tweets is going to confuse you. At first. But stick with it.
Anne Trubek is a writer, professor and rustbelter. She’ll be writing about things filled with lots of words and pages every week for FWD.
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darrylm 11 months agoI tried tweeting an old novel into a ‘twovel’ starting in July 2009. It was fun, but a bit of a disaster. Some could follow it, most couldn’t. Hard to work out both how many tweets a day was too many and the best time to post them. And cutting down my long, rambling sentences into 140 character bursts was painful, infuriating. But still fun. The perfect ‘twovel’ would be first person, present tense, told backwards, with every line pure killer. twitter.com/maxmurrayanovel
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robertg24 11 months agoJennifer Egan is brilliant and given how inventively and effectively she was able to tell a complete story via Power Point in one chapter of A Visit from the Goon Squad, I thought this would be better executed. But the story fails because it doesn’t build in an element of inherentness to the twitter medium - rather than a short story broken down into tweets, it needs to feel like a story that could only have been communicated through twitter. As good as the story may be otherwise, if it lacks that element it’s bound to end up feeling somewhat pointless.
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