Monday, September 20, 2010

One small step

I opened my inbox this morning and there was one mail which I know will cheer me up the rest of the day no matter how bad things go.

Have you ever heard of twitter fiction? Yes, stories that do not exceed 140 words. You might be thinking how you can possibly fit a story under 140 words, but believe me, it's possible.

Nanoism.net is a website for twitter fiction. People submit their stories and the guys who run the show publish the stories they like. And of course I too submitted a story, way back in June.

Nanoism is an online publication for twitter-fiction: stories of up to 140 characters. Shorter then traditional flash fiction, it’s both a challenge to write and quick as a blink to read. Call it nanofiction, microfiction, twiction, twisters, or tweetfic—it doesn’t matter: It’s the perfect art form for the bleeding edge of the internet revolution.

So dear friends, I received an email this morning saying my story is going to be published on October 1. Isn't that great? I know it's only 140 words and not a book deal or a movie deal, but still, somebody out there likes it and wants to publish it for the whole world to see.

I know I should have waited until October 1 before writing this post but I am overexcited and I know I cannot sit still for eleven more days without sharing this with you.

15 comments:

  1. Congrats, Aduh. You do have a gift with words. You should post the story here, unless you've done that already.

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  2. hey, congrats. i will look forward to oct 1. but, give us, regular followers of your blog, an advance copy, so to say. yes? pretty please :)

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  3. Congrates..!!! Why don't you publish here as well once they publish. You know I had hard time trying to comment on your posts for some months. Now that I can will keep on track again. :)

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  4. Congrats!!! when it come out please give me the link... or should you post it here???

    i know expecting something is too exciting, recently i experienced this when Lengzem Editor asked me to write my story and promised to publish in his Magazine, i could not wait... and now it was published, i read and read and read as if it was not written by me :-)

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  5. Thanks everyone. Let's wait until October 1, shall we? It's only a one line story and I am making a big deal out of it. But come back on October 1 and I will put up the link in this post or maybe in a new post.

    Varte - Your story was published in Lengzem? That's wonderful. Which month/year? I want to read it. Or why don't you post it at your blog?

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  6. Its a kind of an article about Mozambique, it's this month's Issue - September '10 :-)

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  7. sekibuhchhuak - Thank you!!

    Varte - Great!! Ka lo chhiar ngei ang.

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  8. Congrats, eagerly awaiting.. 5 more days to go! :)

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  9. BTW: check this site out, worth a few smiles: http://www.storybytes.com/

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  10. Thank you, blackestred. Checked out the site, looks interesting.

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