Entire Novels on Twitter – Starting with Moby-Dick
Dan Coulter created a robotic feed that tweeted automatically 140 characters from Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick every hour. This is an interesting concept that remind me of when novels used to popularly come in “episodes” on newspapers with cliffhangers making the readers “stay tuned for scenes of the next episode”…
More detail on the story can be found on Sea-Fever’s blog post and other places around the Web, of course.
An interesting idea would also be, instead of spilling out the entire novel, to actually ADAPT them to the Twitter/SMS dialog format. But I guess that is yet to come.
Check out http://twitter.com/tweetmeishmael
Very interesting.
Thanks for the link.
Now, what is the format you’re using? What does each tweet represent? A paragraph, an event, a chapter?
It’s Moby Dick adapted to Twitter.
Still trying to figure things out as I go along. Only grounds rules I presently have are at least one tweet per chapter. Also trying to make it somewhat like Twitter in the types of things discussed (e.g., tweets about food, travel, etc.)
I started doing it to give me a little extra incentive to finish Moby Dick (read about half of it in college, but never finished it). Also, it makes me look at the book in a slightly different way.
Hope you enjoy.