You may not know this, but we have a website – www.littlewonder.website – which is part of my larger www.aboutwriting.org. As well as having links and articles about all our plays, it is chock full of all sorts of material about writing, crafting stories and trying to figure out how to be a writer and stay-at-home Dad at the same time.
If you subscribe to the website then once a month I’ll send you an email about what is going on and catch you up on the articles and plays you may have missed. Useful if you don’t like to keep regular track of social media. Also it would make me very happy, make the website appear more frequently in WordPress searches, and make me look less like a lonely loser type blogger.
Whilst you’re there, pick a category at random guess and check out an article.
CATEGORIES
Creativity and Literary Theory
Grammar and Spelling
News, Events, Competitions
Productivity, Planning and Editing
Radio Plays
Structure and Form
Style and Rhetoric
Click on one of the categories, like the article, comment if you dare – and then use one of the share buttons to tell the world that Keith is being wrong about something on the internet. Or click on the little heart to show me some love.
Want free radio plays via facebook? Our facebook page is useful because it helps us gather everything together in one group of easily clickable images, both video and oral content. It’s also a great way to find new listeners.
So, first of all make sure you have liked and followed our facebook page. All that means is we’ll pop up on your feed occasionally. I promise we’re 100% less annoying than all the car adverts or whatever Facebook’s stupid algorithm has decided you want to buy (I don’t drive, but I get a lot of car ads.) It’s an easy way to get reminded when we have new plays, calls for actors/writers, or have found some new interesting adventure to do.
Now you’re following us, scroll down the page and click like on a bunch of stuff. If you make us look popular then people who don’t know us are more likely to try us out. The more people who listen, the more plays we can make!
If you have a moment, then please find a recent post that you like and share it with your followers,
with an explanation of what it is and why you shared it. The best ones to share are the embeds – either the audio tracks from soundcloud or the video tracks from Youtube or Vimeo (because the people you share them with can just click on the button and hear the play).
Finally, if you’ve got an idea of who we are now and have time to write three to five sentences on it, click “reviews” (see the left hand side of the first picture) and leave a review of Little Wonder Radio Plays. Useful reviews say what something is, what it is like, and who might enjoy it. There’s nothing more depressing than a site that has no reviews!
If you use twitter, here’s how to find and follow our free radio plays in bursts of less than 280 characters.
The two accounts to follow are @littlwonder [note there is only one e – if you get an Australian record company you’re in the wrong place] and @keithcrawford77.
https://twitter.com/littlwonder
https://twitter.com/keithcrawford77
Follows are much appreciated – it makes us look like we’re a real thing – nobody needs to know you followed out of pity!
But the best thing about interacting with us on Facebook is that we can embed both our soundcloud and iTune recordings directly into twitter, so you can play them straight from the twitter stream:
Once you follow us, we’d love to hear from you. It helps us enormously if you comment, retweet and like our tweets:
Comment – Retweet – Like
If you retweet embedded plays (you can spot the, because they include a “play” button), then your friends will be able to listen direct from your personal stream.
Radio Charades have been talking about Radio!
No, don’t ask me what the OMGDCUYOY means – but the excellent Radio Charades was back last month, with some brilliant stuff from Toby Frost about how it feels to be a novelist writing his first radio play. Also something called the “DC Universe”, which I think involves men in tights comparing their mother issues.
OK, enough faking, yes, I saw Batman vs Superman, and yes, I think Ben Affleck is the best Batman since Michael Keaton [screw you Dark Knight fans]. But read on, to see how you can find our more from a successful novelist about the transition to radio.
Please give me 5 minutes of your time to help Little Wonder grow!
Little Wonder Radio Plays, our full cast audio drama company, needs your help to grow! Take 5 minutes, boot up your social media brain (ie. click, click, swipe, drool), and help a baby business become a toddler business 😊.
This post is in two parts. The first part will take less than 5 minutes and will help us by networking your social media accounts with ours – raising our profile and making sure you can keep up with all our latest adventures. If you already have social media accounts, you only need part (a) – and in 300 seconds time you’ll be back to watching cat videos and I’ll be very grateful.
The second part is only there for those of you who don’t have social media accounts but would still like to help. I explain the different formats and give you directions on how to get started. This will take you a little more than 5 minutes but will also bring you into the 21st century. Welcome! We have cake!
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