Booker-shortlisted author submits to twitter 'straitjacket' for 280-tweet tale of boy tripping on valium
'Just as well I love escapological challenges… David Mitchell. Murdo Macleod
David Mitchell, the award-winning author of Cloud Atlas, this morning turns to the "diabolical treble-strapped textual straitjacket" of Twitter for the first time to tell a new short story, The Right Sort.
Mitchell will unveil his tale, about a boy tripping on his mother's Valium pills, in Twitter's 140-character bursts for the next seven days. He follows in the footsteps of authors from Jennifer Egan to Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman, who have also experimented with the social media medium; there is even a Twitter fiction festival.
The novelist has set up a new Twitter account, @david_mitchell, for the story; his previous account has only previously been used to release information about his books and appearances. But Mitchell said that "once the idea that I could use Twitter as a storytelling medium bit me, it wouldn't leave me alone".
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Mitchell will unveil his tale, about a boy tripping on his mother's Valium pills, in Twitter's 140-character bursts for the next seven days. He follows in the footsteps of authors from Jennifer Egan to Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman, who have also experimented with the social media medium; there is even a Twitter fiction festival.
The novelist has set up a new Twitter account, @david_mitchell, for the story; his previous account has only previously been used to release information about his books and appearances. But Mitchell said that "once the idea that I could use Twitter as a storytelling medium bit me, it wouldn't leave me alone".
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