Comments on: Quillpill: A Twitter For Cell-Phone Novelists (500 Invites)

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:17:54 +0000

@28 If you follow them on Twitter (@quillpill), they randomly will be giving out invites.

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By: Oneiroi

Oneiroi — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:44:56 +0000

This isn’t stupid, this is great.

At least to me, as a psuedo-semi-writer I like the idea of people who are into creative writing spicing up the sorta lame twitter updates.

Would add tiny art to everyday life. But that being said, I’m doubtful it would ever have a fraction of the people twitter does. But it would find a niche hopefully.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:02:21 +0000

No invites left. Does anyone know when they open the site for everyone?

By: Dan Kamins

Dan Kamins — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:04:01 +0000

Interesting idea, and slick site design!

If you’re curious to try it out, a much simpler prototype of this is already running on the web: http://www.penultimater.com/

You sign up and then randomly get an SMS with the last line of the story. You have 10 minutes to reply with the next line before somebody else is given a chance And so it goes.

P.S. Penultimater is powered by the free TextMarks API ( http://www.textmarks.com/ ) on the 41411 shortcode.

The tail end of the current Penultimator story (Dickens it ain’t, but amusing yes):

–
It leaves a tingling feeling on the tongue
like when pop rocks tickle the back of your throat or your friend cracks an egg on your head then runs their fingers down your back.
thats when u know that youre in for a good time
bring it on!
That what she always says when shes looking for her lumox.
She sighed. One of these days the anti-climatic nature of the job will have eaten a whole through his soul, like pacman.
–

By: josh

josh — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:58:18 +0000

another fad that will be gone in a year.

By: Corey Blum

Corey Blum — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:04:32 +0000

You think they could ever put this on mobile twitter? http://www.read...ex.php?rta=snet

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:14:42 +0000

kwtk, there is a difference between a novel you READ on your cellphone , and a novel you WRITE on your cell phone. This is the dumbest idea ever.

By: kwtk

kwtk — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:04:28 +0000

over a MILLION TITLES (not copies) of Mobile novels or “Keitai Shosetsu” have been published in Japan. This type of service might be able to import this phenomena to Western world if done right… Should be fun!

By: Harry Wang

Harry Wang — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:00:48 +0000

These aren’t going to go too quickly.

Harry “just sayin’” Wang

By: asiaman

asiaman — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:28:45 +0000

More free stuff, great.

By: Brittany Creamer

Brittany Creamer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:12:55 +0000

Very happy to hear the basics will be free!

By: Purple Flakes

Purple Flakes — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:12:19 +0000

I can see it now. The economy is collapsing all around them, and all these out of work pimple-faced dot commers are gonna write quillpill novels on their cell phone. Ya. Good luck with that.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:58:41 +0000

Thumb Tribes!

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:40:07 +0000

Leo Laporte was doing this on TWIT a while back.

By: Ryan Merket

Ryan Merket — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:36:00 +0000

That logo is what happens to small animals after they fall into the Dead Pool.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:33:46 +0000

I have been doing twitter fiction on and off for awhil now. This might be right up my ally.

By: Derek Maune

Derek Maune — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:31:35 +0000

The writing service will remain free after the beta concludes. We will also be introducing a wider range of features that will be available for paid subscriptions, but the basics that are needed to write will remain free.

By: Brittany Creamer

Brittany Creamer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:27:43 +0000

I love that Quillpill has taken in to account that a lot of people still have regular cell phones! Besides that, I think this captures the human essence. A really brilliant professor I had at UT introduced his media law class by describing how everything humans do is somehow storytelling. Now, a thought can be captured from anywhere and shared before it is forgotten. The story can be told and remembered somewhere. It will be interesting to see if this catches on with all of the other microblogging ‘clutter’ out there. I hope it does, the collaboration and co-creation of stories is very interesting, very much 2.0. Unfortunately, I think making people pay to use it is too great a deterrent for potential micro-novelists.

By: Cooter McGee

Cooter McGee — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:27:42 +0000

that logo looks like Jeff Goldblum from The Fly remake

By: Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:25:05 +0000

This is a really cool idea, I have sent away an email and hopefully I'll get in to check it out. I got turned on to the whole Twitter micro-writing thing when Copyblogger held a 140-character contest last month. I've unilaterally dubbed the concept "TwitLit." I was so inspired, in fact, that I launched a micro-writing contest of my own last week called "Can You Put the Wit in Twitter?" All you have to do is submit your best example of wordplay in 140 characters or less and I'm giving the winner over $350 in donated prizes. The deadline is coming up, so if you're interested in throwing your hat into the ring, go here for more details and to enter. Oh and ps- I agree with Bernard and Mark, that mascot is even creepier than the Plurk logo... and that's saying something. Daniel Smith

By: Alexandar Tzanov

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:17:22 +0000

Ahh, I see the updated text.

By: Alexandar Tzanov

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:16:22 +0000

Sounds interesting, but I do not see any mention or a link to the invites.

By: sull

sull — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:08:34 +0000

ha.

http://twitter....tatuses/8060201

http://twitter....atuses/11403531

By: raj

raj — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:57:02 +0000

Okay, NOW mobile apps have become ridiculous. Is it so hard to find time, when you’re not on a cell phone, to sit in front of a computer and write a novel the normal way?