Character Development and Twitter Fiction

Image via The Guardian.

After yesterday's in depth exploration and analysis of several born digital fictions (like Inanimate Alice), today we are focusing on shorter narratives like those crafted on Twitter.

To aid in our Twitter writing we are going to form three groups (much like yesterday) and fill in a google doc, there is one doc per group.

Group 1's doc is here.

Group 2's doc is here.

Group 3's doc is here.


Please fill it in completely and be ready to share with the class.

Module 5: Twitter Fiction

Image from the Twitter Fiction Festival, 2015.

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 5’s blog post in which you respond to Carla Raguseo’s statement: “Twitter fiction can provide learners with a rich language experience in easily digestible fragments. It challenges them both as readers and as writers to attempt and explore multiple meanings and to develop academic skills such as synthesizing and paraphrasing while fostering structural and semantic awareness in playful experimentation.” ●      Live tweet @JessL THREE initial reactions and responses as you make your way through ONE of the three Twitterature readings