July 2007 Archives
Mini Update
Blogathon 2007
13 Hours Left To Pledge
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
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Total Pledged: $100.00 Thank you Lisa!
I’m starting to run out of steam for begging. I’m halfway to my goal!
Anyone else out there?
More fiction tonight, if I don’t fall asleep before the bus gets me home.
Back to Work!
Blogathon 2007
27 Hours Left To Pledge
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
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Total Pledged: $95.00 Thank you Lou!
Well today seems down right slow after all that. “All” I had to do was shadow the Frame Ordering lady, record her every motion, then figure out how to document it so the next time she goes on vaca someone will know how to do her job.
Though I did bring the project home with me, I’ll spare you a sample. It’s a bit flat after the last bunch.
Speaking of which, I’m almost to $100!! Come on folks, if I can do that well in 24 hours, there is no reason I can get to $200 by this time tomorrow.
You heard about the incentives? Alright I’ll tell them again
- If you pledge more than $10, I will send you a clean .pdf copy of the Written Justification Blogathon 2007 manuscript, complete with links and graphics.
- If you pledge $25 or more, I will send you the epic conclusion of one of the many stories I started during the Blogathon.
- If you pledge $50 or more I will not only send you the manuscript and a story, but I will let you choose which story I will compete! Just click here or here for the list of what I wrote on Sunday. The just email me what you want to read when you pledge!
Don’t want to give the little machine your personal info? We can make arrangements. Contact me some other way and I’ll see your contribution made real!
Just a Little More!
Blogathon 2007
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
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Total Pledged: $80.00 Thank you Terri Little & dinorawrs!
I’ve been done blogging for Blogathon for 12 hours, but the game isn’t over!
I have 36 hours to gather additional pledges, and I’ve got prizes for you!
For pledges of more that $10, you will receive the 2007 Written Justification Collection manuscript, including links and graphics, in PDF form.
For pledges of more than $50 you will receive not only the manuscript, but also a bonus short story completing the plot of on of the Blogathon entries.
You can pledge for me here
50/49 Point Me Toward the Bed!
Blogathon 2007
0 Hours 0 Minutes left (Um. Maybe)
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
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Total Pledged: $60.00 Thank you
This have been an amazing experience. The choice to participate here was a last minute one. I signed up within the very last hours that sign up was available and I came no where near my fund raising goal. I suppose I have a day or so left for that, but that doesn’t matter. Now I know what is here, what I can do, and I will be read next time.
To my Sponsors:
- Gledster
- Mandy
- yoshi
- Kristina Brooke
- feather
- and Sheana Director
thank you for your generous contributions. It many not be much, but every penny counts toward making a difference.
To my amazing support system:
- My husband Jerry
- and brother Benjamin,
thank you for putting up with my giddy fits, noise, panic attacks, and babbling
- Khorboth
- Rynn
- and Sedona
Thank you for reading and pestering me in to continuing on.
Thank you CJ, the queen of moderators. Thank you Derek, for putting up with me. Thank you Blogathon Bloggers for being entertaining, tenacious and wonderful!
49/49 One last story.
Blogathon 2007
0 Hours 15 Minutes left
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The girls huddled in bed, listening to papa tell fairy tales, as he did every night. They had noticed tat papa seemed distracted this night, but they were eager for their tale, and did not choose to ask after his troubles. They were, after all, only very small little girls.
Between the tale of the Swan Princess and the tale of Sleeping Beauty, papa gave his sweet daughters a drink of tea. They both fell asleep in the middle to their final fairy tale, and never felt a thing as they were bundled in blankets. The potion papa had put in the tea was too strong.
And so it happened that two little girls, identical in every way, were taken by two different people headed in opposite directions on the same road. One day they would grow into their own fairy tale, but as small little girls, they were only ever alone.
48/49 Precious Choices
Blogathon 2007
0 Hours 45 Minutes left (Um. Maybe)
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
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No matter the weight in silver or gold,
no bauble is worth as much as the soul
of this place where we come to preserve
or to change our lives are we know them
Bring child in, block child out
Pass child on, take child home
Love child now, plan for child soon
Watch child grow, give child health.
No matter the weight in silver or gold,
no bauble it worth as much as the soul
of this place where we come to preserve
or to change our lives are we know them
(Planned Parenthood Poem #5 and the worst of the lot! I rewrote it a dozen times and Its really just terrible!)
47/49 The Blank Page
Blogathon 2007
2 Hours 0 Minutes left (Um. Maybe)
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“Over come the blank page by writing something on it. It doesn’t have to be good. It doesn’t even have to be words. Just write something and then the intimidation will be gone and you can start working properly.”
My creative writing instructor passed the length of a regiment of desks, peering at the gibberish that we scrawled on the page before we started the day’s assignment. I however, was wrapped up in a metaphor and could not escape it. Is that how all fears of news starts can be overcome? Look at your future, blank and terrifying, then just leap into it. You don’t have to be moving toward any goal, as long as you get started living so you can see there’s nothing to fear.
As I pondered this, staring at a blank sheet of college ruled paper, the techer passed my desk. “Rachel! Focus. Don’t freeze up. Just scribble on it!”
How could I hope to explain that while my pen didn’t move, I’d conquered a new theory of life?
46/49 Thanks for Nothin’
Blogathon 2007
2 Hours 30 Minutes left (Um. Maybe)
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
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Total Pledged: $50.00 Thank you
So, I did a series of these a couple of years ago and now I’ve got another one.
Superstitions about writer’s block. I’ve worked freelance for years now, and I’ve become downright paranoid about getting kudos before a job is through. Editors are mean and nasty pricks. They should stay that way for the duration of a project. Once the project is done, then they can be marginally nice. If they compliment you during a project, be prepared for a major hang up or set back, especially if they compliment your creative thinking.
Any of you have any superstitions or concerns about writer’s block? Cures? Horror Stories?
45/49 Me Now Game
Egad! Evil Camera Phone!
Planned Parenthood, do you see how I love you? I let the world see my bad bad camera phone pic!
44/49 Overwhelming
Blogathon 2007
3 Hours 0 Minutes left (Um. Maybe)
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What choice must I make
if I do not abstain?
Pills, patches, and rings?
Caps, rubbers and creams?
Diaphrams,
dental dams,
condoms and films?
Implants or
injections?
Rhythm or
awareness?
Ignore it
and pray?
What’s my best option
if I do not abstain?
(Planned Parenthood Poem #4)
