Cell phone novel

It fascinates me that the human mind has a need to tell stories. As new mediums are created so are ways to tell stories.

It seems that the Cell phone novel emerged in Japan. They are no longer than 70 words and were started by women who count tales of Relationships, Love Triangle and Betrayals. The genre is called keitai shousetsu.

For a history of the Cell Phone novel and how it has evolved check my most favorite place on the Net, the Wiki.

Once you have read the Cell Phone novel you may also be interested to know that people are writing 140 character stories on Twitter known as TwittNOL. Can you imagine telling a story in only 140 characters and *no more*? It's like Haiku but not as restrictive, I guess.

You can read some of these stories at: Read, Write, Web.

Simply fascinating...