I <3 Novels

WHOA. This article titled, I Love Novels was not only weird, but kind of scary to me! A woman who wrote a novel on her mobile phone? Now, that is a little too much for me. In Japan, creating novels via cellphone is a normalcy--I wonder if there are any American authors who do this. For me, I'm a paper and pen type of gal, so the idea of creating a long novel using the tiny buttons on a cell phone sounds ridiculous to me!!
I do like Mone's story of how she got her book noticed though. Readers on the internet who read her work were really eager to read more and as she puts it, "It came to me that there needed to be the hills and valleys of a story," saying that she had to continue on and build upon her story. I really like that quote a lot because it says that without plot, conflict, characters, themes, symbols, everything, you don't get a story, you get just words.
Another thing I noticed as I read this article is that the "cell-phone-novel" is centered around women. As explained, Love Sky is about sexual mishap and focuses on how "sex leads to all kinds of pain, and pain is at the center of a woman's life." In Japan, men are the dominant sex, so through the "cell-phone-novel," women can communicate their feelings. However, the idea that through this mean of creating a novel, most authors stay annoymous. If I ever wrote a book, I would definitely want my name and face on it for credit! But perhaps the women of Japan respect their culture of male dominance and want to remain annoymous as a sign of their cultural norms. This article is definitely cultural, but it scares me because what is our world turning into? I enjoy text-messaging short messages, but I can't even imagine writing an essay or novel through the means of a cell phone.