Combine that with the culture-wide hatred of things that teenage girls enjoy (the Twilight bloc again), and you’d think cell phone novels never caught on because they got smothered in the crib. Critics and advocates both assumed that cell phone novels would blow up our relationship to literature, that as cell phones grew in ubiquity the written word would fall to the touchscreen abbreviation. But that’s not what happened.
Today I wrote what I think is the first draft of my Cell Phone Novels piece, which will be the first post to Supernormal (my Substack). I want to get it right, but I also want to find a format that I can fit into a week — so while I won’t be posting the first draft, and I do want to get it right, I expect it’ll be another week before I have something ready to go.
I might use this space to talk through my plans and any issues I face, so be ready for that. Except I don’t want to call it “writing about writing.” Let’s call it… Substack Week!
At the end of Substack week, I’ll have started my Substack. During Substack week, I’ll commit to some outline regarding post length and frequency. I’ll also write about, I don’t know, Hero or The Bourne Identity or something. Gotta keep delivering the core product, you know how it is.
Happy Substack Week!