No time to sit down with a nice fat novel but you like to read? Just got a bad case of ADD and don’t want to try to read page after page, not even a whole paragraph? Twitter to the rescue. What twitter did to blogs is now being done to stories.
I am currently aware of two edited twitter zines. @thaumatrope and @Outshine. They both deal in speculative fiction type stuff so that is right up my alley.
And as a bonus – do you think you could be the next great 140 character or less author? Well both will pay for accepted submissions. If you are interested check out the submissions guidelines for each. It looks like thaumatrope bills themselves as the highest paying zine on twitter. They pay $1.20 per accepted submission. And Outshine shells out five bucks per accepted submission – which they call prose poems. (So I guess thaumatrope should drop the highest paying claim.) They also take poem poems apparently, such as haiku. Outshine officially launches tomorrow. (January 14th, 2009) thaumatrope has been going for a while and is pretty sweet.
