Tweetarrator Future

Hi everyone,

With the conclusion of Nick Berlades 'Small Places' Tweetarrator is having a rest.

The main reason is that I currently do everything manually.  If I could find the right product and money I would keep things going in an automated fashion.  The best product is a monthly subscription, costing USD30 per month, which I can't justify.  The key is being able to bulk load and drip feed the tweets within a few seconds of each other.

If you really love what we have been doing and prepared to donate for it's continuation let me know and if I get enough pledges I'll reconsider.

It's been awesome to bring you tweetarrated stories... see you soon.

'@Small Places' is coming - wahoo!

The story that kicked of the maddness of creating Tweetarrator is about to launch...

Yes thats right Nick Belardes' '@Small Places' will be retweeted for the first time since its original posting @smallplaces.  It will be tweeted through @Tweetarrator and posted here at tweetarrator.com and facebook.

Those who followed Nick's tweets will be familiar with this little bug icon...  Follow it again for the next 5 months... tell your friends... this is going to be great.

Charles concludes, Virginia begins

Look out for Virginia Wolf next week.

In two days we conclude Charles Dicken's gripping little tale "The Baron of Grogzwig", tweetarrator's first twitter story.

But there is more install...this time with Virginia Wolf's short story, "The Haunted House".  There are only 7 broadcasts for this story so it's a very nice, short, interlude before the next major story, Roald Dahl's "Beware the Dog".

Thanks for being part of this slice of life.

2010 Schedule finalised

We are pleased to announce a finalised schedule of tweetarrator for the rest of the year.

1 May to 4 June 2010
Charles Dickens : The Baron of Grogswig
- 32 broadcast days of between 6 & 7 tweets per day

8 to 15 June 2010
Virginia Woolf : A Haunted House
- 7 broadcast days of approx. 5 tweets per day

17 June to 23 July 2010
Roald Dahl : Beware the Dog
- 32 broadcast days of between 6-7 tweets per day

26 July to 18 December 2010 (* special modern twitter novel)
Nick Belardes : Small Places
- 126 broadcast days of approx. 7 tweets per day

Current Story Update

 The Baron of Groswig by Charles Dickens

• The baron grew weary, and wanted excitement. He took to quarrelling with his gentlemen, and tried kicking two or three of them
• every day after dinner. This was a pleasant change at first; but it became monotonous after a week or so,
• and the baron felt quite out of sorts, and cast about, in despair, for some new amusement. One night,
• after a day's sport in which he had outdone Nimrod or Gillingwater, and slaughtered "another fine bear",

Wondering what this is all about... check out the site and follow the story each day on twitter at twitter.com/tweetarrator.

Off to a good start

We officially launched our first tweetarration (narration) of a classic Charles Dickens short story entitled "The Baron of Grogswig."  You can follow via twitter.com/tweetarrator or through this blog which is broadcast here and on tweetarrators facebook page.

As of today we have over 530 followers.  Great start but would love to a see many more join.  Let your friends know and sign up.  Go to @tweetarrator to join.

We have arrived – it's launch day!

Welcome to the official launch of @tweetarrator - where twitter and storytelling merge

Our first broadcast begins with an endorsement from twitter novelist Nick Belardes (@smallplaces) which will be broadcast later in the year.  Thanks so much Nick.

"Just when I thought @smallplaces might be forgotten, @tweetarrator reminds me that literary history is worth retelling now and then. Storytelling was around before paper. @tweetarrator is a new reminder that narrative traditions supersede the printed word." @nickbelardes

To follow @tweetarrator click here!

Launch fever stirring up @tweetarrator

That's right folks… tweetarrator launches on Saturday May 1st, 2010 @ 10.00am NZT (New Zealand Time).

For those in other parts of the world the means you get it before you arrive… how awesome is that?

I have something special planned at 8.00am NZT as we begin something that is really quite new for the internet, twitter and facebook -  Twitter storytelling.

Keep tuned in.

Story Coming 1st May 2010

Its our place and you are invited.

On the first of may our first story will be broadcast.

it's coming and you're invited!

Follow @tweetarrator and begin reading.

That's right - commencing 1st May 2010 you can be part of one of the most unique reading groups on planet earth.  Fiction delivered in 'story chunks' direct to you via twitter.

Every day (Mon to Sat) we will tweetarrate (narrate via twitter) a story to you.  tweetarrator will broadcast 4 to 6 tweets within a few minutes to give the follower (you) a chunk of the short story we are reading together.  A story of around 3,500 words will take approximately 30 days to broadcast.

tweetarrations (story chunks) are sent once a day in a quick burst to keep you interested in the story and not completely sidetracked from your busy day. We think that's pretty cool and we hope you do as well. If you don't check your tweets in a particular day that's cool, the tweets will be waiting for you.  It won't take too much to catch up.

As followers increase we will develop this twitter service further. Some ideas like:

• Showcasing classic, readable, authors of the past to reignite a passion for reading fiction
• Tweetarrator marathons (reading events where we read a whole book over a compressed timefame)
• Author introductions and interviews
• Book launches (sampling of new books for follower feedback and promotion) 
• Writing competitions - an opportuinity for new authors to emerge

It's easy, it's free - simply follow @tweetarrator and we'll do the rest... how easy is that?