Fiction In All Of 140 Characters
The idea behind the Copyblogger Twitter Writing Contest was simple… compose a story in exactly 140 characters and post it on Twitter. In other words, write a mini-story that allows the reader’s imagination to run with it.
“Being constrained to exactly 140 characters will spark your creative juices and force you to focus stringently on word choice, sentence structure, and even punctuation,” according to Copyblogger’s Brian Clark.
Wired had done a similar kind of contest, which in turn was a spinoff of Hemingway’s famous 6 word story - For sale: baby shoes, never worn, which he claimed was his best work. As the Wired site claims, “Dozens of our favorite auteurs put their words to paper, and five master graphic designers took them to the drawing board.”
Meanwhile, the entry that won the Twitter contest, came from Ron Gould, read:
“Time travel works!” the note read. “However you can only travel to the past and one-way.” I recognized my own handwriting and felt a chill.
Get the rest of the winners here and go here for a slideshow of the entries.
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