Ficly: a better, shorter story
"Ficly is about creativity. ... everyone can carve out fifteen minutes to either continue a story someone else has started, or start something of their own - something simple - two, maybe three paragraphs of a character, a plot or even just a place.
That's the premise. We impose a limit of 1,024 characters because we think constraints are good. They make you choose your words more carefully."
(Jason Garber, Kevin Lawver)
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
Ficlets: collaborative fiction site closes
"ficlets is no more. AOL decided to kill the product, but thankfully, since all the content on the site was licensed under Creative Commons, I decided that there's no reason to let the content die. So, consider this the ficlets memorial.
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I appreciate the opportunity that AOL gave me to build and launch ficlets with my friends. ... I'm just glad the forty-five thousand (plus) stories that people wrote over the eighteen months that ficlets was around will be around a while longer and may still become the source of some joy in the world."
(Kevin Lawver, January 16, 2009)
[non-commercial AOL community website]
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
