The Mobile 'Phone Text Message As Experimental Fiction

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Has anyone tried using the TXT message as a form of ultra-flashfiction?

I've been trying it out lately.

I texted this to my friend S:

'Ideas are shoals of blowlamps, coalescing and dispersing in the cold azure of the icy tarn of our minds. Sometimes they fire up all together, and the nebulous glow suffuses the depths'

She TXTed back:

'Wot?'

Bloody Philistine. It's got potential though, eh? Eh?

[A_Non_Ymous]

Re: The Mobile 'Phone Text Message As Experimental Fiction

Has anyone tried using the TXT message as a form of ultra-flashfiction?

No, but I'm a neo-Luddite of the reformed sect. I use computers
and high-bandwidth communications technology, but own no mobile
phone. You example holds out possibilities for the technology, of
course.

I've been trying it out lately.

I texted this to my friend S:

'Ideas are shoals of blowlamps, coalescing and dispersing in the cold azure of the icy tarn of our minds. Sometimes they fire up all together, and the nebulous glow suffuses the depths'

Excellent. And her civilized response:

She TXTed back:

'Wot?'

Bloody Philistine. It's got potential though, eh? Eh?

She should have apologised, whereupon you could have
TXTed back:

"Apologies are like arsewipes: they should be disposed of as
quickly as possible, and without undue examination."

"Pull out her eyes
Apologise
Apologise
Pull out her eyes."

Of course, people need training to deliver proper straightlines,
especially via TXT.

Pity.

LSN

[Mikey_C]

My sister-in-(common)law received a similar gem from her new partner, and inadvertently forwarded it to her mother, provoking concerns that she "must be on LSD" (which is coincidentally [or maybe not] true...)

It must be time for the first TXT novel. People conduct whole relationships through the bloody things.

(I also don't have a mobile.) :oops:

[devilchicken]

There was a story in the news some time last year bemoaning the worsening standards of literacy of UK secondary school leavers.

The crux of the story was a girl at a comprehensive who wrote a school essay filled with 'textisms', in place of conventional syntax and grammar.

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Heehee! I'll remember that about apologies, LSN.

Actually, I hate my mobile. It's supposed to be high-impact-resistant (I'm so rugged) but I dropped it and now it'll only vibrate. I walked out on a client earlier who answered her phone in the middle of my consult. Dozy cow.

A TXT Novel could get pricey, couldn't it?! :)

[Mikey_C]

This could grow into a challenge. TXT versions of fave Moorcockian tomes. Luddites excused of course (couldn't cope with RSI of the thumb).

[A_Non_Ymous]

. . .
It must be time for the first TXT novel. People conduct whole relationships through the bloody things.

You must redefine what you mean by "novel" of course, because
sending sufficient text to render a proper narrative experience would
be cumbersome at best.

Curiously, back in the early 20th Century (remember then?),
the French writer Max Jacob wrote a collection of fascinating
compressed 1-paragraph stories that distilled the essence of
his narratives. They're called something like "The Serial Novel" in
English. I need to go look them up again (it seems as if it has been
since the early 20th C. that I've read these works).

You could post Jacob's little "novels" via TXT quite easily.

(I also don't have a mobile.) :oops:

Te absolvo, mon enfant. :lol:

LSN

[Michael Moorcock]

RUCre us ?

[Jerico]

GHOTI

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"fish" that is!! :D

I L C U L8R

[Whiskers]

A TXT Novel could get pricey, couldn't it?! :)

After you text your first novel, I suspect you'd make it into Ripley's Believe It Or Not, but not because of the first novel on a cell, but because of your 600 kilo thumbs.

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I started to write my TXT Magnum Opus:

In Katmandu did the Aga Khan,
(In a state of leisure, some agree)...

When some bloke from Porlock called about selling me a new mobile.