the cell phone novel seminar presentation
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CELL PHONES: THE NEW PUBLISHER
Brittney Sloan & Christine Vanasse
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WHAT IS A CELL PHONE NOVEL?
keitai shosetsu
Written on handsets
Short chapters (100-200 words)
Diary like stories
Predominantly dialogue
Simple language
Textspeak/emoticons
Predictable plot
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HISTORY
Japan
“Deep Love” by Yoshi in 2000
First mobile website
Publishing companies and agencies picked up on
the trend
Maho no i-rando (Magic Island)
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AUTHORS AND READERS
First-time writers
Young female readers and writers
Teens and twenties
Use pennames
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PLOT
Partially autobiographical
Taboo subjects
Drugs, sex, pregnancy, abortion, rape and disease
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POPULARITY
Increases cell phone ownership/usage
Unlimited data plans
Publishing opportunities
Long commutes
Privacy
New era of expression
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CRITICISM
Poor literature quality
Should be classified with comic books or popular music
The Web is more of a conversation. Books are more
one-way
Writing can be brought online in a form that will
invigorate traditional authors, hobby writers, young
authors, and even people who have never really thought
of writing anything more than a diary blog.
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The unseen or omitted becomes a vital part of the reading experience, allowing deeper meanings and interpretations to unfold.
Weight of individual words
Power of cutting
Teenage fad
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SPREAD
Asia, Europe, South Africa
www.textnovel.com
Similar themes as Japan
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THE FUTURE?
New era of minimalism, art, and expression?
Could the education system use these concepts to
encourage interest in different forms of literature
and a new way of expression?
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WHAT IS A TWITTER NOVEL?
Content that is published 140 characters at a time.
A writer can go from final draft to publication in
seconds.
Twitter novels incorporate and exploit all the
current features of social media to develop followers.
The novels can make extensive use of links to
photos, videos and websites.
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Tweets are archived off the Twitter platform, so that
readers may access the novel in full without having to
scroll back through tweets to find the beginning.
Twitter novels are normally abbreviated so that each
post is as self-contained and interesting as a complete
scene or short poem.
Tweets are often scheduled to appear at regular
intervals to best reach all followers.
The novels make use of hashtags, such
as #twitternovel to find common readers.
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WHY TWITTER NOVELS?
They are appealing because it can potentially
reach and build a large audience quickly. As with
conventional novels, this audience must be
developed, and in some cases an author can find a
large audience quickly through word of mouth and
viral sharing.
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HOW TO START A TWITTER NOVEL
Pick a topic/story line
Decide how you want to format it
Make sure you have a set plot
Make concise sentences that move the story
forwards• NO FILLERS
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FORMATTING
Story in chunks - A single author builds the story post
by post. He or she may already have a manuscript, but
it gets chunked out a 140 or fewer characters at a time.
Single post, single story – The ultra compressed
novel. An example is novelsin3lines by Félix Fénéon.
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Collaborative story seeds -A starting post, followed by a sequence of Twitter posts contributed by followers.
Author Neil Gaiman kicked off the novel with the post: Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled & said, “We don’t love you anymore.”
Thousands of people have responded with the next possible sentences.
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TWITTER NOVEL TIPS
1. Throw Out The Manuscript
Twitter is instantaneous. Serializing a manuscript may be easy, but trying
to contract and make logical sense of it in 140 character bursts is not.
2. Have A Plan
Although there’s no need for a manuscript, you should know where the
story is going. The formatting for a scene provides more freedom to work
within the spaces you’ve created and allow the story to grow naturally.
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3. Manage The Clock
What’s great about a Twitter novel is that your content is no
longer static. Depending on how committed you are, you could
have events happen in real time using services like Tweetlater.
4. Not Just Story. Events
If a character is mugged at 6am, you could post a police
announcement on the Twitter novel looking for the perpetrator.
What are the characters listening to on the radio? Is someone
calling them that’s important to the story? Use Twitpic to show a
photo of one of your friends or an actor to show the reader who is
calling or what the mugger looks like.
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5. Don’t Bury The Lead
More than five Twitter posts on any given day can be
dangerous. You’ll induce reader fatigue, and new
readers will get lost quickly.
There’s an assumption that many of your Twitter
followers will enjoy your work while on the go, so their
time to take in a novel may be limited to short bursts.
6. Move It Forward
Simply put: Each tweet should move the story
forward in some way. If it doesn’t, cut it.
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7. Newbies And Greenhorns
Finally, you may have readers follow you after the
novel has started. Include link on your Twitter page
of a home page. Occasionally remind readers on days
that you do not update that they can catch up at this
website.
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The format is still new, but it won’t be long until we start to
read about successful Twitter novelists getting publishing
deals. Why? A large following equates to a large potential
customer base. If you can show you have a customer base,
you are better positioned to land a book deal.
So far, publishers aren’t lining up to sign Twitter novelists.
But as the medium evolves, it could become a good place to
try out story ideas and see what can build a following.
Japanese cell phone novelists have shown that novels in short
bites can be successful.
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JAPANESE SUCCESS
Whatever their literary talents, cellphone novelists are racking up the kind of
sales that most more experienced, traditional novelists can only dream of.
One such star, a woman named Rin, wrote “If You” over a six-month stretch
during her senior year in high school. While commuting to her part-time job or
whenever she found a free moment, she tapped out passages on her cellphone and
uploaded them on a popular Web site for would-be authors.
After cellphone readers voted her novel No. 1 in one ranking, her story of the
tragic love between two childhood friends was turned into a 142-page hardcover
book. It sold 400,000 copies and became the No. 5 best-selling novel of 2007.
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“It’s not that they had a desire to write and that the
cellphone happened to be there,” said Chiaki Ishihara,
an expert in Japanese literature at Waseda University
who has studied cellphone novels. “Instead, in the
course of exchanging e-mail, this tool called the
cellphone instilled in them a desire to write.”
Indeed, many cellphone novelists had never written
fiction before, and many of their readers had never
read novels before, according to publishers.
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