9 rules for writing successful Tweetfic
A short guide to publishing stories directly onto Twitter.
What is TweetFic?
TweetFics — also known as ThreadFics, TwitterFics, etc — are stories that are written and published directly onto Twitter.
In 280 characters, you write a tiny bit of story, and then you add another tweet into the thread, replying to the tweet that came before, and then you repeat that process again and again.
A TweetFic refers not to an individual tweet, but the whole of a thread that makes up the story, although of course, you can have a story told in a single tweet. TweetFics can be long or short, they can be all kinds of different genres, and as a medium, I find it to be fun and flexible.
I’ve seen some people say that TweetFic is flash fiction, which I don’t agree with — some flash fiction is published as TweetFic, but TweetFic itself can be pretty long-form, and isn’t necessarily flash, which is normally limited at few hundred words or a single page length.
I personally have written TweetFic that are several thousand words long, and while that’s not necessarily extremely common, it’s by no means unheard of.
There are different kinds of TweetFic — there’s the linear story where you just write the…
