Amanda Lees » Twitter http://amandalees.com Amanda Lees author website Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:29:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Anti-Social Author http://amandalees.com/the-anti-social-author http://amandalees.com/the-anti-social-author#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:17:56 +0000 Amanda http://amandalees.com/?p=443 Yes, it’s been a while.  Same old excuse – I’ve been writing.  Actual locked away in my garret style writing with minimal distractions.  I know I should be accomplishing this while simultaneously keeping up a whirl of blogging, Facebooking, Tweeting, Ninging and general Socialmediaimploding but you know what?  I don’t want to.   I want to keep it pure.  I am a return to vinyl author.

I was reading about the music industry at the weekend and how there is a surge in purchases of good old fashioned records.  Some labels are only releasing new stuff on vinyl.  I like that.  It feels authentic.  And so does my refusal to be sucked in by the endless quicksand that is social media.  Sure, I still do all of the above but not when I am supposed to be writing. 

I am one of those writers who becomes wholly absorbed in their work.  Hell, I don’t even play the radio when I’m writing.  I need peace.  Silence. Endless acres of imaginative potential.  I see writers Twittering away all the time and wonder how they do it.  Do I envy them?  No.  I prefer to give everything I have to the work at hand.  For me, social media drains my work of vital energy.  So I might at times feel like a party-pooper but frankly I prefer writing in joined up sentences to producing endless 140 character soundbites.

]]> http://amandalees.com/the-anti-social-author/feed 0 Chortle for Charity http://amandalees.com/chortle-for-charity http://amandalees.com/chortle-for-charity#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:28:39 +0000 Amanda http://amandalees.com/?p=237 This is such a great idea – a new collection of comedy writing created entirely through Twitter and all the proceeds go directly to Comic Relief. Twitter Titters was the brainchild of journalist and author Linda Jones who decided to do something different for Red Nose Day. It features exclusive new work from Phoenix Nights’ Dave Spikey and comedian Nat Coombs. You can read more about it and grab your copy of the book here:

http://www.twittertitters.com/

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