Michelle Pauli 

Twitterature (the sequel)

They say everyone's got a novel in them, so here's your chance to tell us about yours – as long as it's less than 140 characters
  
  


Another week, another Twitterlit story. This time it's two teenagers from the States who have garnered a book deal from Penguin for Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books, Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less.

Now, I think that "20 tweets or less" isn't much of a claim. That's a whole 2800 characters. Big deal. The two 19-year-olds (one of whom describes himself as "a Huffington Post contributor, ordained reverend and aspiring warrior poet at the tender age of 16") decline to provide any examples of this prodigious feat of literary compression on their website; perhaps they can take some inspiration from your masterful efforts last month. And as an added bonus, here's the New Testament by our very own Digested Read supremo John Crace as well:

"Angel gets Mary up duff. Jesus chills for 30 years, gets Messiah complex and is topped. Comes back. Then I saw his face. Now I'm a believer."

But the classics are so last century. We want to hear 140-character summaries of your own aspiring masterpieces, so tweet your story with the hashtag #noveltweet and we may publish some on guardian.co.uk. The latest tweets we've found on Twitter will appear alongside this post.

 

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