In one more day, Hint Fiction will turn two years old. Hard to believe that what originally started as a not-so-serious essay which was intended to be read by only a handful of people turned into something this big. After all, Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer came out in November [...]
More covers by the University of North Texas graphic design students have been posted at their blog (here and here). Last week I mentioned how the Dutch discovered Hint Fiction. Now it’s the Chinese (and yes, they do plagiarize some of my original Hint Fiction essay without proper citation, and yes, they even rewrite Joe Schreiber’s story [...]
It’s been five months since the Hint Fiction anthology was released, and the concept of Hint Fiction still continues to thrive. Graphic design students at the University of North Texas created book covers based on stories from the book. I’ve included one, as seen above, but check out the site for a few others. More [...]
Hint Fiction contributor and all around cool cat Adam-Troy Castro brought the existence of 5-Second Films to my attention, or, as he put it, Hint Cinema. Here’s some background: 5-Second Films was created by Brian “Boss Man” Firenzi in the Spring of 2005, after being disappointed by so many 5,400-second films. The rules are simple: [...]
Is it possible? Have I created a monster? Well, you decide. The pictures are all over the Internet. But the most damning is — gulp — this one. Well anyway, I just wanted to remind everyone about the special Hint Fiction reading at the KGB Bar this Sunday evening. The contributors attending include Jennifer Alandy, [...]
Thank God for technology. If it wasn’t for computers and the Internet, I never would have seen the above tweet. And I never would have been able to translate the Russian into English without the help of Google: in my To-Read list, there’s a whole book of short stories in one sentence. Robert Swartwood “Hint Fiction”. So yeah, that’s pretty cool. Have a great [...]
