Finally, A Novel About People Tweeting About Writing Their Novels

In late 2011, New York-based programmer and musician Corey Arcangel started $4 to retweet people sharing posts about "working on their novels." Flip to two and a half years later and Arcangel is publishing his own novel composed of only the best tweets from the world's future novelists.

The book, "Working On My Novel" will be published by Penguin Books on July 31, available in paperback or e-book. You can $4 for $10. Its 144 pages are made up entirely of tweets, all of which Arcangel asked for permission from their authors.

On the project's website, Arcangel writes, "Exploring the extremes of making art, from satisfaction and even euphoria to those days or nights when nothing will come, it's the story of what it means to be a creative person, and why we keep on trying."

Arcangel has practice calling out our weird social media habits. The author/coder runs a blog called "$4," which, you guessed it, re-blogs other blogs that feature that popular phrase.

(H/T $4)