Last night, the word for the final round of NYCMidnight's "Tweet Me a Story" contest was provided: BELOW. Here are my entries, all 140 characters or less (titles added afterward for fun): Keeping Your Spirits Up "Still below the weather, hon?" "Much better now." "The nap helped?" "No, finding the poison you used on me [...]
Read MoreToday is the last day to vote for the "Tweet Me a Story" first-round finalists, of which I are one. Actually, I are two. Recap: NYCMidnight's "Tweet Me a Story" gives contestants 5 hours to write a story of 140 characters or less which must include a supplied word. My word was BETTER. Entrants could [...]
Read MoreIt started out as a simple little poll… AfterElton posted a poll looking for Man of the Decade, and with an impressive lineup the race between Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Horrible) and John Barrowman (Dr. Who, Torchwood) was within 20 votes of each other. Then Twitter got involved. First NPH [...]
Read MoreThe results of the first round are in, and of the 25 top stories selected in my group, two of them are mine. This pleases me, and causes me to weep for the next generation of writers. Starting at midnight, you can vote for your favorite Tweet Me a Story story, and I'd appreciate it [...]
Read MoreNYCMidnight started up their "Tweet Me a Story" contest again last night, and once again I'm taking a swing at it. Rules: entrants must write a 140-character-or-less story using the supplied word. Entrants had 5 hours to come up with up to three entries. My group's word was BETTER. Here's what I submitted, with titles [...]
Read MoreThe West Port Book Festival is hosting their first Literary Twestival in Edinburgh on August 14th. But you don't have to be within a thousand miles of the place to participate… Just post your short-short-short story to your Twitter account and include the hashtag #wpss (for West Port Short Story). The best will be presented [...]
Read MoreIf you're not following @drhorrible on Twitter, you're missing some good stuff and sneaky updates like this one. Just sayin'.
Read MoreI won the audience award! You like me! (sniff) You were shamed, guilted, and/or pressured into admitting you really like me! Thanks, everyone, for voting for me. Didn't get the judges' prize but I did get into the top ten, which means I also won entry into NYCMidnight's 2009 Creative Writing Contest, which starts this [...]
Read MoreRemember NYCMidnight's "Tweet Me a Story" contest? Hundreds of writers wrote stories of 140 characters or less, using a supplied word? And then some of the writers made it to the final round, and we all got the same word? And I posted my entries here? One of them made the top 25, chosen by [...]
Read MoreNew at ThinkGeek, the shirt for Twitterers who haven't yet quite pinned down their perfect avatar, the tiny image that captures who and what they are. Or, as ThinkGeek suggests, the perfect avatar for disguising who and what they are. Sometimes people say stupid stuff. Sometimes people Tweet stupid stuff. The difference with the two [...]
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