FLASHFIC-A-THON for a good cause!

This morning (Wednesday, Sept. 6) divalea lost her house and her pets in a devastating fire. Lea is a self-employed comics and manga artist. I've known her for several years and she's always been very supportive of my cartooning -- as the founding editor of the comics website Girlamatic, Lea invited me to be part of the original gang of Girlamatic cartoonists and this has opened a number of doors over the years. She's also a very active feminist who promotes the interests of women in the male-dominated comics field, and offers grants to women webcomic artists.

She and her husband have two special-needs children and the fire, as you can well imagine, has left them in a very bad position, especially since Lea is employed at home, so as well as losing her home she has also lost all the equipment that she needs to make a living.

I would like to help Lea and I've decided to run a fic-a-thon to do it. I've never done this before and I have no idea what kind of response I'm going to get ... if any! But I really do hope at least some people will take me up on this.

Basically you make a pledge (see below for details) -- for the sake of simplicity, I'm only going with two kinds of pledges, a flat pledge or a pledge per 100 words -- and I write a short story to your specifications. Stargate Atlantis is, obviously, my current fandom and the fandom I'm most comfortable writing in, but since this is *your* story, you can request a different fandom if you like; see under the cut for some suggestions.

( Instructions and fandoms under the cut )

Oh, for extra fun, I'll also do a running tally of the amount raised and the status of the stories! Because half the fun of pledge drives is watching the tallies grow!

So, to start us off, here is the current tally at ground zero:

Amount raised: $0
Stories in progress: 0/0
Stories completed: 0/0

Come on and help me make it grow!

FLASHFIC-A-THON for a good cause!

This morning (Wednesday, Sept. 6) divalea lost her house and her pets in a devastating fire. Lea is a self-employed comics and manga artist. I've known her for several years and she's always been very supportive of my cartooning -- as the founding editor of the comics website Girlamatic, Lea invited me to be part of the original gang of Girlamatic cartoonists and this has opened a number of doors over the years. She's also a very active feminist who promotes the interests of women in the male-dominated comics field, and offers grants to women webcomic artists.

She and her husband have two special-needs children and the fire, as you can well imagine, has left them in a very bad position, especially since Lea is employed at home, so as well as losing her home she has also lost all the equipment that she needs to make a living.

I would like to help Lea and I've decided to run a fic-a-thon to do it. I've never done this before and I have no idea what kind of response I'm going to get ... if any! But I really do hope at least some people will take me up on this.

Basically you make a pledge (see below for details) -- for the sake of simplicity, I'm only going with two kinds of pledges, a flat pledge or a pledge per 100 words -- and I write a short story to your specifications. Stargate Atlantis is, obviously, my current fandom and the fandom I'm most comfortable writing in, but since this is *your* story, you can request a different fandom if you like; see under the cut for some suggestions.

( Instructions and fandoms under the cut )

Oh, for extra fun, I'll also do a running tally of the amount raised and the status of the stories! Because half the fun of pledge drives is watching the tallies grow!

So, to start us off, here is the current tally at ground zero:

Amount raised: $0
Stories in progress: 0/0
Stories completed: 0/0

Come on and help me make it grow!