Ecriture 2.0: concours de micro-roman sur twitter
Un concours d’écriture (en anglais) a été lancé sur Twitter, avec comme contrainte, une limitation à 140 caractères. Cette contrainte donne lieu a un nouveau style d’écriture, original et percutant. Voici les gagnants:
Premier:
“Time travel works!” the note read. “However you can only travel to the past and one-way.” I recognized my own handwriting and felt a chill.
Deuxième:
Tony was a snitch, so I wasn’t surprised when his torso turned up in the river. What did surprise me, though, was where they found his head.
Troisième:
When Gibson hit that homerun in the fall of eighty-eight, my old man had never been so happy. He hugged me for the first time. I was eleven
Mention honorable 1
Happily sobbing she held the boy, her memory of his violent conception falling away. She had learned to love him, this would be her revenge.
Mention honorable 2
The priest at the funeral home asked if she had been a loving mother. The children all stared at each other. The silence spoke volumes.
Pour plus de détail sur le concours…
Intéressant, non ? Le micro roman, nouveau style entre le haiku et la nouvelle ? A quand la version française du concours ?
