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([personal profile] gothwalk Dec. 28th, 2003 07:14 pm)
I wonder how long it will be before someone rises to the challenge of writing a novel in sms.

From: [identity profile] ephiriel.livejournal.com


That is just nasty :)
I wish I had thought of it first.
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From: [identity profile] gothwalk.livejournal.com


Well, there're all these ways of actually collecting SMS at the moment - conversion to email, moblogs, and the sms_to_lj thing. So sooner or later, someone is going to go to work punching out a novel with their thumbs in SMS. It'll be difficult, certainly, especially since they'll only ever be able to see the line they're writing at the time, but no more difficult than a novel without the letter e, for instance.

From: [identity profile] kehoea.livejournal.com


If you were to do such a thing, there would be no way to prove you did it exclusively with your thumbs. There are too many ways of getting the SMSes to your phone to be able to refute someone who says "You just typed it in to your PC and sucked it across with the {Nokia development kit,O2 website, whatever}."

Yeah, someone might do it, but what a singularly unsatisfying achievement that would be:

— Look! Novel-length SMS! All with these thumbs!
— I don't believe you.
— Oh. *bursts into tears*

Nice idea, though, if arthritic. :-)


From: [identity profile] bastun.livejournal.com


Wud it hav 2 b wrtn lik dis wit no pnctuatn & lack of vwls? Cud u use predctve txt?

From: [identity profile] dorianegray.livejournal.com


I can only hope that if some idiot does, no-one will be fool enough to publish it.
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