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Posted on: Sat, 02/20/2010 - 13:07
Twitter fics

I've been wondering what is possible.....

I know you can do 140 character fics but could you twitter an abridged version of a fic?


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Posted on: Sat, 02/20/2010 - 17:32 #1
You could but it would take

You could but it would take a while...

A fish without a bicycle cannot contemplate his navel.

Posted on: Sat, 02/20/2010 - 22:42 #2
omega13b wrote: You could
omega13b wrote:

You could but it would take a while...

A fish without a bicycle cannot contemplate his navel.

I think I'd worked that part out *laughs*

Posted on: Mon, 02/22/2010 - 14:06 #3
Interesting

It's an interesting idea. What if you took a reasonably long fic (say 20k-100k words) and tried to boil it down to as few sentences or short paragraphs as possible? How short could you make the story without losing any vital content? That could be a really good exercise for eliminating unnecessary verbiage and even unnecessary plot elements.

Posted on: Mon, 02/22/2010 - 20:03 #4
Sovran wrote: It's an
Sovran wrote:

It's an interesting idea. What if you took a reasonably long fic (say 20k-100k words) and tried to boil it down to as few sentences or short paragraphs as possible? How short could you make the story without losing any vital content? That could be a really good exercise for eliminating unnecessary verbiage and even unnecessary plot elements.

The fic I had in mind is one where I'm trying more than ever than that, so it would be apposite to do so.