SMS is arguably the most popular cell phone service besides regular calls. In Western Europe, 11.9 billion SMS messages were sent last year. That number is expected to skyrocket to 57.3 billion messages by the end of this year, according to market research. SMS lets people send and receive messages of up to 160 characters, which forces writers to express a thought creatively and concisely, Wilson said. Having rules and barriers to overcome is very liberating creatively.
Creation becomes a game, a test of ingenuity.
That leads to much better poetry than the freedom to express deep thoughts on deep subjects at great length. Send it . Use this version. E-mail this to a friend. Wired Digital Inc., a Lycos Network site.