I’m Writing a #TwitterFiction Story!

From March 12 through March 16, there is a fiction writing festival on Twitter! It’s called (logically) the Twitter Fiction Festival and it’s both official and not official. The official part is a partnership between the Association of American Publishers and Penguin Random House and an impressive list of featured authors. If you click through to the link, though, you will notice a glaring omission: no cats! So I decided to take advantage of the unofficial part in which “anyone is invited to jump in and tell stories with the hashtag #TwitterFiction.”

Being a cat, I decided to write a cat story! I’m not doing anything fancy or particularly creative… just a narrative short story, told in quick bursts, but I am trying to make each tweet have some sort of value — no throwaway tweets at all. It is about a tuxedo cat named Molly. I started it Thursday and will finish it sometime on Sunday!

Here is what I have so far (just a note — if you are looking at this in a reader or an email, you may have to go to the real blog post because the Tweets are embedded):

Molly's whiskers twitched as she watched the birds dance in the tree outside her living room window. #MollyCat #TwitterFiction

— Sparkle (@sparklecat) March 14, 2014

 

The blue jays and little brown sparrows were enjoying the early spring's sun rays as much as Molly was. #MollyCat #TwitterFiction

— Sparkle (@sparklecat) March 14, 2014

 

The birds sang so invitingly that Molly felt like she could reach out and touch them. So she tried. #MollyCat #TwitterFiction

— Sparkle (@sparklecat) March 14, 2014

 

To Molly's surprise, the screen that separated her from the outside pushed open – and she fell! #MollyCat #TwitterFiction

— Sparkle (@sparklecat) March 14, 2014

 

Molly tumbled paws over tail and landed in the dirt a few feet from the tree. She could hear the birds laughing. #MollyCat #TwitterFiction

— Sparkle (@sparklecat) March 14, 2014

 

She shook off the dirt and glared at the birds hopping on the branches and flapping their wings at her. #MollyCat #TwitterFiction

— Sparkle (@sparklecat) March 14, 2014

 

With fire in her eye, Molly charged up the tree. It felt good to watch those smug little birds panic and fly off. #MollyCat #TwitterFiction

— Sparkle (@sparklecat) March 14, 2014

 

But now that Molly was sitting on a branch not far from the window, the problem was how to get back in? #MollyCat #TwitterFiction

— Sparkle (@sparklecat) March 14, 2014

 

The screen had not come off when Molly fell, but instead banged back into place. Molly was stuck outside. #MollyCat #TwitterFiction

— Sparkle (@sparklecat) March 14, 2014

If you want to continue following Molly’s adventure, all you need to do is do a twitter search using the hashtags #MollyCat #TwitterFiction. And if you are not on Twitter, don’t worry — I will tell you what happened to Molly! But I will tell you a secret: I’m not even close to finished yet with the story, so who knows? Molly may surprise me!
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