A novel in 24 hours???
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Yep. On Saturday, July 26, Mentally Incontinent is participating in the Blogathon! MI Isn't really a blog, but it's a cool idea. Check it out:
The Blogathon is a marathon for charity. Bloggers will blog and people will donate and charaties will benefit!!! The rule is to post to your blog every 30 minutes for 24 hours. People pledge an amount per hour that you blog. At the end, for every hour I "blog", people donate the amount they pledged (i.e. you pledge $1.00 an hour and someone blogs for 18 hours, you donate 18 bucks! Donations are also accepted on a "Flat Rate" basis, i.e. you can donate 2 bucks flat out if you want) and the money goes to a charity of the blogger's choice.
Since I don't blog (and hope I never will), I have decided to do something a little different.
It's crazy for someone to post a novel AS THEY WRITE IT to a website for all to see. It's even CRAZIER for someone to try to write a whole novel in 24 hours. But to put the two together? That takes Joe The Peacock.
To be clear: I will write a full novel in 24 hours, posting it as it is written to this site every 30 minutes.
I am donating the money I raise to the CBLDF, a legal defense fund for artists and writers who have had their 1st Amendment right to free speech violated. I hope to raise a good bit of dough, and since I'm kinda doing this on short notice, I am hoping you guys can kick it up and really chip in. You can pledge by the hour OR a flat rate (come on, 2 bucks! It's worth it!), and it's 100% tax deductable!!! It's a really GREAT cause, and besides - watching some nutjob post chunks of a novel every 30 minutes for 24 hours has to be worth SOMETHING, right??
I should mention that if every member of this site donated two dollars each, we would raise over $3,000 for the CBLDF! (of course if one member donated that much and no one else did, we'd have the same amount! Eerie the way that works, huh?)
Blogathon just announced that they will be accepting donations up to 24 hours after the event - meaning you have until 9 AM EST Monday morning to donate! Isn't that grand!!!
Click here to sponsor me!!!!
Remember: this Saturday, July 26, the world will see the construction of the first ever 24 hour novel. BE HERE, and see it develop!!!
And now, I've got someone else doing it! Michal Wallace, the man who runs Cornerhost (the company that hosts this site) is doing it as well! Check out his idea at http://cornerhost.blogspot.com!!!
http://www.mentallyincontinent.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=235
Yep. On Saturday, July 26, Mentally Incontinent is participating in the Blogathon! MI Isn't really a blog, but it's a cool idea. Check it out:
The Blogathon is a marathon for charity. Bloggers will blog and people will donate and charaties will benefit!!! The rule is to post to your blog every 30 minutes for 24 hours. People pledge an amount per hour that you blog. At the end, for every hour I "blog", people donate the amount they pledged (i.e. you pledge $1.00 an hour and someone blogs for 18 hours, you donate 18 bucks! Donations are also accepted on a "Flat Rate" basis, i.e. you can donate 2 bucks flat out if you want) and the money goes to a charity of the blogger's choice.
Since I don't blog (and hope I never will), I have decided to do something a little different.
It's crazy for someone to post a novel AS THEY WRITE IT to a website for all to see. It's even CRAZIER for someone to try to write a whole novel in 24 hours. But to put the two together? That takes Joe The Peacock.
To be clear: I will write a full novel in 24 hours, posting it as it is written to this site every 30 minutes.
I am donating the money I raise to the CBLDF, a legal defense fund for artists and writers who have had their 1st Amendment right to free speech violated. I hope to raise a good bit of dough, and since I'm kinda doing this on short notice, I am hoping you guys can kick it up and really chip in. You can pledge by the hour OR a flat rate (come on, 2 bucks! It's worth it!), and it's 100% tax deductable!!! It's a really GREAT cause, and besides - watching some nutjob post chunks of a novel every 30 minutes for 24 hours has to be worth SOMETHING, right??
I should mention that if every member of this site donated two dollars each, we would raise over $3,000 for the CBLDF! (of course if one member donated that much and no one else did, we'd have the same amount! Eerie the way that works, huh?)
Blogathon just announced that they will be accepting donations up to 24 hours after the event - meaning you have until 9 AM EST Monday morning to donate! Isn't that grand!!!
Click here to sponsor me!!!!
Remember: this Saturday, July 26, the world will see the construction of the first ever 24 hour novel. BE HERE, and see it develop!!!
And now, I've got someone else doing it! Michal Wallace, the man who runs Cornerhost (the company that hosts this site) is doing it as well! Check out his idea at http://cornerhost.blogspot.com!!!