What Are Cell Phone Novels?

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Japanese cell phone novel phenomenon began in 2000 and landed in the English-language world in 2008, beginning a new literary movement among thousands of young writers and readers globally on another writing community. The cell phone novel is a remarkably unique new form of writing, fusing serialized storytelling (such as that on Wattpad) with simple haiku-like poetic technique and with prose storytelling. Each chapter (page/parts on Wattpad) is at most 200 words, but usually averaging around 50-100 words, using white space, line breaks, fragments, free flow poetry, deeply personal thoughts, emotions, and onwards. As it is about the literary culture, form and style, there is no restriction of genres or content.

Read on for more information or see cellphonenovel.tk or the documentary video (2013):

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