Word: keitai
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...expected that thumbing her keypad would enable her to become one of the country's hot new writers. "I had never written a story," she admits. "I had never liked reading either." But when a close friend offered her own life experiences to Okiyama as the basis for a keitai shosetsu, Okiyama realized that she had everything she needed at her fingertips. "I never had the idea of how an authentic novel should be, so that might be why I could do it," she says. "I simply wrote like I text." Using the pseudonym Momo, she posted K - about...
...novels on their cell phones; they're also writing novels with them - uploading SMS-length installments to specialist websites where they are in turn downloaded to the phones of millions of readers. The most popular are printed as books and sell in the hundreds of thousands. Okiyama's first keitai shosetsu or "cell-phone novel," K, was written on her 3G Sharp handset and finished with a speed that would have left Barbara Cartland eating her literary dust. In book form, it is 235 pages long. "I think I was writing 20 pages in two hours...