I’m not sure if you have heard of micro-fiction on twitter before, but I just stumbled upon it and its a rather fascinating idea. The basic premise of micro-fiction is to string multiple tweets along to create a cohesive fiction story. Neat huh? I thought it would be a great idea to hook readers and actually get more followers.

Though I’ve never tried it, I could even see it becoming a thing where other people join in on the story! Here is an article from Macaroon on Litopia.com about micro-fiction tweeting:

My stories follow a 6-part framework, and are 6 lines long, and complete in 6 tweets.  The stories are tweeted in reverse order, so the story runs from its start down the page.

Makes sense.

I discovered the 6-part story framework here on Litopia.  It was in a post about how Pixar develop stories.  It works very well. The 6 parts to the story are: Once upon a time, Every day, One day, Because of that, Because of that, Until finally.

Then you need to use your imagination to build the story – that’s what writers do!

Here’s an example, and one of my favourites:

MARS

Once upon a time, there was an astronaut searching for water on Mars using a divining rod.

Every day, he criss-crossed the red plains with his hazel stick held ahead of him.

One day, the stick twitched, dipped and pointed straight down.

Because of that, the astronaut discovered stairs descending to a cellar inside the planet’s core.

Because of that, he discovered rooms cut into the rock and filled with blocks of ice.

Until finally, Mission Control landed, sampled the cellar and congratulated the astronaut. Then the real search began.

The tips on story structure are sound, but I would avoid using the actual “once upon a time, one day, because of that, because of that, until finally,” phrases.

Food for thought huh? Maybe the next brake-out novel will have come from a story you created on twitter!

To read the rest of his article on micro-fiction tweeting, click here.

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