140-character winning Novels

"Refined to promote innovation", 37 signals's popular book "getting real" has such a sentence. Copyblogger's Twitter writing competition is also a manifestation of this spirit. The competition requires that you write a 140-character short story, which should be exactly 140 characters long (exactly the number of characters in a Twitter Short Message). More than 300 entries are required for the competition, copyblogger released the Award List.

"A limit of 140 characters can inspire your creativity and encourage you to refine your vocabulary," said Brian Clark of copyblogger before the competition, a sci-fi novel named Ron gocould won the first prize. It is a compact and beautifully structured masterpiece.

"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.

"Time travel is true," he wrote, "but you can only return to the past one way ". I shudder when I found my handwriting.

This competition is reminiscent of Hemingway's famous six-character novel, "For sale: Baby Shoes, never worn." (for sale: Kids shoes, brand new ). It is said that Hemingway regards this novel as his greatest work. Two years ago, Wired Magazine found a group of bestsellers who asked each of them to write a six-character article.

Here you can see other works or the works of the winners. In the blog of Daniel Smith, you can see all works of 331 contestants.

 

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