Lessons in writing for mobile phones
A while back, I posted about how a number of authors in Japan are writing on their mobile phones (called keitai in Japanese). The audience? Other mobile phone users.
Admittedly, I’d probably never use a mobile to do any writing. The smallest device that I ever used for that purpose was my Psion Series 5. But this post offers some lessons in writing for mobile phones. The key points:
- The audience (at least in Japan) is quite large.
- Keep each installment short.
On a somewhat related note, I was reading a couple of blog posts recently by a Canadian translator living in Japan. These posts where a translation into English of an interview with a manga artist Naoki Uasawa. What’s unique about these translations is that they were:
… done on the train with the magazine in one hand while thumbing my on-the-fly translation into my cell phone with the other.
A very interesting use of the technology.
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