Blogathon 2007!
I’ll be participating in Blogathon 2007 on July 28. From 9 AM Saturday to 9 AM Sunday, I’ll be blogging tirelessly to benefit the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, writing a piece of flash fiction every half hour (inspired by your one-word writing prompts!) for 24 hours. Trust me – this is even harder than it looks. This is my eXtreme sport. 
What you do
* Sponsor me!
* You’ll get an e-mail after the Blogathon confirming that I did it (yes, they check during the ‘thon!).
* You pay!
What I do
* Type my ass off for 24 hours straight.
* Give you a Blogathon Incentive – Mouse and I are discussing what cool Shayara thing we can do for you.
How you can help
* Sponsor me! *laugh*
* Donate crafts, books, whatever you do to be auctioned to benefit BARCC.
* If you’re local, come by and feed and entertain me.
* Give me writing prompts! Yes, in this post.
Why BARCC?
In past years, I’ve blogged for RAINN. I still have a deep commitment to RAINN! But they get a lot more attention and funding than smaller, local crisis centers. And BARCC’s a good one. They maintain a phone hotline, send volunteers to help survivors in the hospital, through the rape kit, and they have a speaker’s bureau that goes to schools, businesses, everywhere, to speak out against rape and sexual assault – to show what it does, to try to nip it in the bud.
This is the kind of organization that runs on a shoestring budget. We raised $3,400 for RAINN last year. Can you imagine what that would do for a smaller crisis center? It would be huge. It would be amazing. It would allow them to do exponentially more.
Be amazing. Do this for me, for yourself, for your sister or mother, daughter or friend. Do it because they deserve it.
