First Twittories, then Don Draper. Now, writer Nikki Katz is twittering a story called MyLifeIn140:

The story takes the form of frequently updated tweets, which relate the main character’s thoughts and the events around her. Because the story only started a few days ago most of the tweets are related to character development and could have come from any angsty teenager, but the seeds of a story have been planted.

To be honest, there’s no way I’d ever want to follow MyLifeIn140 for any length of time, especially with tweets like:
“Doing the layout of the page with Caleb’s pic. Swoon. He looks hot! White shirt sets off his tan and his green eyes pop. And that hair…”.

But I’m not the target audience. I could see MyLifeIn140 and similar stories taking off at high schools, with the same kind of virality seen by the fictional LonelyGirl15 video series that managed to amass a huge following and spawned several spinoffs. And periodically updated text stories have been very popular abroad, where a significant number of best selling books were written from mobile phones.

(via TechCrunch)

Poketo (designer of limited edition accessible art objects & apparel) and 826LA (a non-profit dedicated to supporting kids 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, as well as sister to 826NYC) have teamed up to create a line of wallets that feature art on the front and hilarious kids’ writing on the back. Arists like Esther Pearl Watson, Mark Todd, and Martha Rich were paired with kids like Roberto age 4, Helen age 6, and Sofia ageless.

(From Roberto) There were two boys named Roberto & Slater were playing outside. Ha Ha Ha! That was so funny. Make another joke. Ok…Hee Hee your killing me. Oooh I’m I’m Slater. Oooh I’m Roberto. Boom what was that? Let’s go see. Ok. Mo, haha I’m the god of fighting. Whoa…Hey can you hear me. Uh yes my first person…Zap! Ahh! Poke, ouch. No! I’ve been defeated!

Amazing.

(via My Love for You)