A novel way to spend an hour
If the budding writer in you fancies writing, why not get started on something a little more manageable - like just 15,000 words?
The average reader reads at a speed of around 250 words per minute. So reading a book of 15,000 words should only take them an hour. For the reader, knowing that a book won't take long to read, makes it that much more appealing to pick up and read... after all, its only an hour.
The sixty minute story is designed for reading on digital readers such as the Amazon Kindle, Sony reader, cellphones, laptops and the iPhone and iPod touch. These great devices provide the perfect reading tool for the sixty minute reading experience, and it is important that the your SMS is produced in a way which means it can be read on these devices.
A Sixty Minute Story has certain characteristics which make it different to any other story form. These help us to define the SMS and helps maintain an element of quality, so that you story is represented in the best way possible.
As well as writing a story with a maximum of 15,000 words, you can see the other characteristics by visiting this link.
The SMS / Sixty Minute Story is published, and hosted on MeeQi.com and will be available in three key formats; epub, pdf and plain text.
If you are experienced and technically proficient, there are many tools which you can use to produce your e-book in these formats.
If you are less experienced or would prefer doing it the smart and simple way, you can upload your book (completely free) to the free MeeQi Convertor which will create a version of your Sixty Minute Story in all three formats.
You can then use the free MeeQi site to publish and distribute your book online - you can even use it to sell your book online or offer it for free.
We need your help to spread the word on the Sixty Minute Story and our campaign to get more people reading and more people writing.
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