Bpen has begun writing an original MilSF cellphone text novel

bluepencil

that's why it's trash can, not trash cannot
#1
I require beta readers. Post here your email if you want bcc: and a snippet in your inbox daily. Hell, I may be sending them to you so often the filter might class them as spam. ;)
 

TkMacintosh

Well-Known Member
#3
zerohour said:
cellphone text novel? What's that?
Cell Phone Novel

Basically, it's a book you write on your phone that has short (and by short, I mean 70-100 words due to phone limitations) chapters and is posted on sites for everybody to read.

It's a really big thing in the eastern part of the world.
 

bluepencil

that's why it's trash can, not trash cannot
#4
Which is where I live, incidentally. :p

This experiment, trying to tear down the typical text-dumpy milSF format into the very bare bones? Even I can see it turning into a sad burning wreck really quickly. But it could also distill it to something worth reading.

I could just post them here in sections, but there's something to be said about the 'authentic experience' too.



... eh. Not gonna pretend it's anything but pulp trash.
 

byakuryuu

Well-Known Member
#5
Blue, I wish you were here, because the only text novels ever published (and they stopped a some time ago) were stupid "pious village girl goes to the city, meets a bad boy, turns him pious and marries him" stories.

Damn, I need a good orange mug just remembering my country used to do that poop.
 

bluepencil

that's why it's trash can, not trash cannot
#6
CPNs have more in common with poetry than prose. While most I've read tend to be teenage emo pap, when done well they're quite evocative.

Which is utterly at the opposite pole of attempting a straight narrative, but eh. :p On further thought, putting emails down sounds like a phishing scam waiting to happen. Please PM instead.
 

bluepencil

that's why it's trash can, not trash cannot
#7
Okay, rather than spam yer inboxes, please have a look at

http://m.textnovel.com/story/view_chapter/11909/1

Not gonna as you to register just to comment, but still if amenable please let me know what you think.
 
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