The One Where I Ask For Something

Only this one time, I swear.

Hi friends.

Tomorrow I’m going to send out the FAQ for 1000 Words of Summer and open the slack for everyone. This is also when the fundraising starts. Every year we raise money to donate one thousand dollars each to a charity of choice from our contributing writers. We also raise money to sponsor a Scholastic Book Fair for a school in New Orleans. (Here are some pictures from last year’s and the year before. So cute!) Your donations also pay for our wonderful slack moderators, as well as some administrative costs attached to supporting more than 50,000 people.

I’m thrilled to be convening the ninth year of this project, which, while it technically lasts two weeks, is really a month-long cycle for me as I invite people in to the community and also provide support for it over the coming days. I draw no salary from this! I just ask that you consider donating.

You can do this by subscribing, or you can venmo me directly. If you are already a paid subscriber, that’s it, you’re good! (Unless you feel like donating more via venmo, and anything that comes in there will go directly to the Scholastic Book Fair to buy more books.)

You can just subscribe for a month and never again if you feel like it. But if you’re getting something out of this project (or have gotten something out if it in the past) and can afford it, please consider a subscription this one time. Oh look, I’m going to put this button here again.

By the way, subscribing gets you access to all the paywalled letters in the archives, more than a few of which include writing prompts which might be helpful to you. I’ll start with one below just for fun: