You think there’d be a market for the microfiction? If I, say, coupled some of them with commissioned black and white art and sold the whole thing as a book? I’d probably have to crowdfund it, because I don’t have the three grand I estimate that the project would cost to get a hundred sketches for a hundred pieces of microfiction. At that, I don’t know if I could raise that kind of money for that kind of project.
Thoughts?
Moe Lane
PS: It’s just something I’m kicking around in my head. I mean, I already got paid for the microfiction, right? No rush on it.
Being honest, Moe? I would give you a money for it, but .. I don’t know if it would be .. a popular thing.
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I don’t recall owning anything similar .. ever .. or even seeing something similar outside birdwatching or gardening sections.
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That said .. I would give you a money for it, just to save on having to download and save each of the micro fictions .. and because you’ll inevitably find good artists.
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I apologize for the lack of helpful information above.
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Mew
No, it’s useful feedback. I might do this as part of teaching myself how to do Kindle books.
There is a market for ultra short fiction. This isn’t exactly what you do with microfiction, but it might spark something else.
Ubisoft packages microfiction in some of their games in the form of collectible texts. In Division 2, as you explore the open world you find short recordings of events and conversations that flesh out the backstories of several of the NPCs.
You probably already know this though.
I have seen some collections. They mostly begin with the Art, and the writer expounds a few lines from there. If you find the right artist to colab with, it could be something awesome.
This book was short fiction built around spare pulp-art, but the concept applies: SpaceBase2000
crap. SpaceBase2000
apologies. link to long for hyperlinking I guess?
I view micro fiction posts as writing exercises. They remind me of the sort of thing I’d write when I had an interesting scene in mind, but I didn’t have a story to go with it. I’d write it down and visit it later to see if it told me the rest of the story.
Art would be nice, but certainly not a requirement – with super-short things like micro fiction, I would expect something like a coffee table book of some fancy art that had accompanying text – which sounds similar to what nicklevi86 describes. Maybe I’m thinking of some of the poetry books I’ve seen.
I think I would be more interested in short stories – even if they’re something like a dozen or so pages. There have been a few times where I wish there was more than a couple of paragraphs to your micro fiction – they felt like they had more to say.