{"id":1550,"date":"2010-06-20T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2010-10-10T22:17:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T04:17:50","slug":"cw2010-donate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/20\/cw2010-donate\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarion West Donation Drive 2010: Sponsor Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clarion West<\/a>, the six-week writer’s workshop I attended<\/a> in 2008 on a space station in geosynchronous orbit above Seattle, hosts an online donation drive called the Write-a-thon<\/a> each summer concurrent with the in-person workshop (June 20 – July 30). This year I’m participating<\/a> in the drive along with many other former students and instructors<\/a>. Here’s the deal: participating writers pledge to complete a certain amount of work individually; their friends, family, and fans donate whatever amount they choose to Clarion West as a show of support for both the writers and the organization. My goal: “Each of the six weeks I’ll either write a complete, good first draft of a new short story, or finish revising an older, in-progress one.”<\/p>\n

I describe my feelings for Clarion West and my background in terms of the Write-a-thon further on my personal Write-a-thon profile page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The donation drive works on an honor system — but, if you want proof I actually meet my Write-a-thon goals, I’m happy to accommodate you privately pretty much however you see fit. And, no promises, but if you do donate and want a character named after you in one of the stories, let me know that, too, as long as your name isn’t Forrest Gump or Darth Vader; if your name is euphonious I’ll ask the Muse to see if It can work anything out.<\/p>\n

Clarion West is a nonprofit organization, and in the United States donations there are tax-deductible, as described on the main Write-a-thon webpage<\/a>. Remember the organization has to fly the space station, pay the instructors, and so on — a lot goes into making this wonderful workshop happen. Rest assured that it is totally, totally, totally<\/em> acceptable to donate a mere $5 if you want; $5 times a lot of donors times a lot of writers equals a whole lot of money.<\/p>\n

To donate, you can either 1) click the PayPal “Donate” button on my personal Write-a-thon profile page<\/a>, or 2) send with a note mentioning my name a snail-mail check to: <\/p>\n

Clarion West
\nP.O. Box 31264
\nSeattle, WA 98103-1264<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks everyone, and I really appreciate even a single $5 donation to Clarion West. Let me know if you donate: it’ll make me work harder! Feel free to badger me about my progress towards my Write-a-thon goals, too!<\/p>\n

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