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AKA Damon Arvid. Under-the-radar writer, musician. Let's keep it that way. The cloud novels and other highlights are being collected at DamonArvid.com. To access all the music and Avocado Sun, click the big black box below.

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Testcut - Hashtag Novel

3/27/2015

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This post has been revised as of 11.19, with a bonus poem. 

#testcut is not Banksy, not quite. It is the notion that a novel will be hashtagged to the reading public in real time, as it is created.* The equivalent of the David Hockney piece that he recorded stroke by stroke on his iPad until it was complete. (This was one of my favorite pieces in de Young's A Bigger Exhibition). The idea that we can watch the act of creation and revision, again and again, in its entirety.** 


#testcut  is immediacy in writing beyond anything possible until recently. If Dickens released his work in installments and Andy Weir (the Martian) in blogposts - Keroac on an onionskin loop -  this is something even more haiku flowing… Each 10 tweets a unit, like movie cuts, but taken from throughout a novel that I have not yet mapped. Subconscious meanderings that eventually thicken, cohere. Or not - high-wire writing, without a net. 


The book actually began two weeks ago in a muddle of Tweets that did not know they had a theme. Here, for clarity, the gestation phase.
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First there were skirmishes, then there were wars. Then an uneasy peace pervaded the place. Only the place had ceased to exist.


To a place where time, if not exactly still, is very nearly silent.


When procrastination is not an option, empty your mind & begin without aim. Themes will sort themselves out.


One to admire, one to cast aside. One for the road. 
#endurancepose


Faced with a decision, circumspect. Timed release, I'll be out of the room by the time––


Amiable, egalitarian, her hair glinted in a certain light. Foggy.


Truth twisted with a hint of rye. I took the news straight.

Circumstances dictate that I write this on this on toilet paper, in lemon ink. You will know why when I escape. 
#hethought


You will never know the ways I tried to find a place that we two could share. Hopeless. 
#shethought

Crisp, her eyes shone in the light. How do we stay afloat?


Mar 16


When the world catches up, it is time to move on.




* If my literary forensics research is correct, Twitter novels have been in existence since 2011, taking form 140 words at a time. Micro novels are particularly popular in Japan, presumably written on crowded commute trains where there is just room to maneuver a cell phone (a phenomenon I know well). 

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