Comments on: Short Attention Span Fiction

Short Attention Span Fiction

wanderingmind — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:40:37 -0800

Anacrusis is a collection of short stories. Very short stories, written under a strict length constraint. It's a perfect way to get your daily dose of weird, funny, thought-provoking fiction.

By: xmutex

xmutex — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:10:58 -0800

Cool. Although he stole McSweeney's look. He also links to constrained.org, which is a fun community-oriented writing resource/site as well.

By: LairBob

LairBob — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:15:29 -0800

This just reminded me of one my favorite books from about 10 years ago--Sudden Fiction. It's similarly a collection of "short short" stories, by a lot of pretty well-known writers, and it's really great fun to read. (There were two follow-up books as well, I think.)

By: moonbird

moonbird — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:30:29 -0800

[this is good, while constrained is better]... nice post!

By: garrett

garrett — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 01:12:55 -0800

Nice post. An author friend of mine has been doing something similiar, he refers to it as Flash Fiction. (he's gone for 100 words, not 101. Those wacky authors!).

By: zpousman

zpousman — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 06:30:02 -0800

Fuck words man, I'm just now getting into SMS poems. 160 charachters. exactly. Here are some bad, bad examples (many are shorter than 160 chars). But still , constrained writing is good.