About

Tweetarrator has been created out of a fascination between a number of things including:

1. The twitter phenomena
2. Storytelling
3. Great stories of the past and present
4. The fusion of these three things

I confess the idea of tweeting stories is not new but it is in its infancy.  Self confessed media junky @nickbelardes broadcast the first literary Twitter novel, Small Places on April 25, 2008.  His idea captured my imagination.

What if twitter novels became a new standard in telling stories in bite sized pieces for busy people?
What if reading stories via twitter captured a whole new generation of readers who might otherwise not pick up some great literature for reading pleasure?
What if this created a renaissance of reading the classics again?

Now, please here me very clearly.  I am not advocating @tweetarrator is a replacement for reading in the more traditional manner of sitting with a bounded printed document allowing the words to jump off the page into your imagination.  Nothing can beat that, however, there are far too many people in the world who do not have any desire to pull a book off a book shelf, sit down and read it.

Take me for instance. I have never been a good reader.  I'm in my mid forties and I have ony rediscovoered reading fiction in the last couple of years.  Up til then its been 'I'll wait for the movie to come out'.

I live in a technological revolution where my every moment is attached to either a PDA/phone (my trusty  iPhone to be exact) or my laptop (Toshiba Tablet).  With Kindle and the iPad arriving in the space between these two devices I am less and less likely to want o pick up a paper based book.

So I guess this twitter service is designed for ME in mind.  Hey if you want follow as well that's cool. Follow me @tweetarrator.