BEG-A-THON!

This is my CW class waiting for Chuck Palahnuik’s reading. I had a terrible camera when I was there so I only have a few awful pictures. My advice to CW students: make sure you don’t have a crap camera.

I keep forgetting to post that I’m doing the beg-a-thon again this year.

I’ve sent out a few super-impersonal spams begging for money and I may send a few more.

Meanwhile, here I am doing one of my most unfavorite things: asking people for money.

This is a fundraiser for Clarion West the organization that puts on the writing workshop I did in 2008.

My adventures are here (scroll to the bottom to start at the beginning.)

I think I said my stated goal says 1000 words a week because the workshop starts during World Cup but I’ll probably do more like 3000 a week.

You can sponsor me. I’m going to match donations for the first $100 so if I can get 20 people to sponsor me for $5 (only $5! You can probably find that much on the floor in the car) I will make my goal of donating $200. You can donate more if you want. $20. $100. $1 million. All will be appreciated and if you donate $1 million we can probably arrange to have a building named after you.

If you’ve ever had a dream of donating money to deserving writing nerds, this is your big chance.

My donation page is here. If you like Paypal you can donate with a few clicks.

If you don’t like Paypal you can mail a donation. That information is here. If that’s too much trouble you can mail or give to me. You can throw it at me and I’ll run back and forth with a bucket and try to catch it.

If you don’t want to give it to me there’s a huge long list of other writers you can sponsor.

And if you’re tired of people asking you for money, then you can think good thoughts.

I’ll post a weekly update on how I’m doing.

And huge thanks to everyone who already donated. I really appreciate it.

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10 Responses to BEG-A-THON!

  1. AEJ says:

    Your site has had a makeover! Very nice.

    I have made a donation. If you name a building after me, make it “LoLo”. I’d prefer it was a library, too.

  2. Marvin says:

    Whee, Clarion! I had a friend who used to go to Clarion every year. It was east, Pittsburgh or someplace. She lived for that. I didn’t know they had multiples. It was like that big SCA event, the Pennsic War, that all the Renaissance nerds go to every year. It was basically a big weeklong orgy, from what people told me. I’m sure Clarion is the same, only for writers. 😉

    I know you’ll have fun and do good. I would donate money but money is bad for anonymity. So I will donate good thoughts, and lots of them.

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