Fiction + Twitter = Flits: Adam P. Knave doesn't bother talking about the new new thing — he invents it

He sent me the following email yesterday:

Joe,

I just thought I'd share this bit of madness with you: You have probably/possibly heard of a site called Twitter.com and what it does. In case not, it is a mini-blog site, a place where you can post things with 140 characters or less, and read the posts of friends doing the same. You can have these things sent to your phone or IM or whatever. And it seemed to me to be a huge bother. Who wants to get txt messages all day saying "Had pizza. Like it."?

But then a friend of mine came up with an idea. Fiction + Twitter = Flits. Short stories. Really short. 140 characters to tell a complete fictional tale.

So I took the idea and ran with it: twitter.com/adampknave

And I thought you might enjoy the idea, in the raw, even if not in the specific. Using a tightly controlled environment and adapting art to fit it, instead of forcing it to adapt to the art. Which, I feel, is how a lot of art gets made.

Adam P. Knave
Freelance writer
www.hellblazer.net/www.thefootnote.net.

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I'm with you, Adam (that's him up top): what fun would tennis be without a net?