yes, WRITTEN.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 9 December 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago)
I wonder what Japanese script script.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 9 December 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago)
One script, that is.
huh?
― s1ocki, Sunday, 9 December 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago)
katakana
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago)
that article is weird. it asserts that more than half the top 10 fiction books were written on mobile phones, then goes on to talk about how people are reading lots of books on mobile phones. there's no more mention of the actual wrting... i'm kind of skeptical
― s1ocki, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago)
it seems to me that there was maybe some sort of translation error somewhere down the line? maybe the word "composed"?
Yeah, the point seems to be that half the books are read on mobile phones, not written on them. Can't see any reason why writers would prefer writing their books on mobiles, since it must easier to do that with a computer.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago)
Did you guys read the original article in the Australian paper? It goes into a bit more detail...
― dell, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago)
ok looking at the article this blog post links to, it IS about writing..
A new translation of Dostoevsky's classic The Brothers Karamazov, released in July, has surprised its publisher by notching up more than 300,000 sales already - but it is Rin's rather less challenging Moshimo Kimiga (If You ...), a 142-page hardback book about a high-school romance, that has caused the bigger fuss.
"I typed it all on my mobile phone," Rin explains matter-of-factly over the same device. "I started writing novels on my mobile when I was in junior high school and I got really quick with my thumbs, so after a while it didn't take so long. I never planned to be a novelist, if that's what you'd call me, so I'm still quite shocked at how successful it's turned out."
― s1ocki, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago)
great. used to be all the japanese would sleep on the train. at least now they are doing something.
― stevienixed, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago)
One book, Koizora (Love Sky) about high-school girl who is bullied, gang-raped, becomes pregnant has sold more than 1.2 million copies since being released.
oh, wrinklejapanese
― milo z, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago)
xpost
Yeah, but will the dudes be able to txt out a novel while simultaneously keeping up with their frotteurism-related avocations?
― dell, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago)
or "inclinations". Yes, inclinations.
― dell, Monday, 10 December 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago)