Not a Pipe Publishing’s team, Writing Against the Darkness, will be participating in The Alzheimer’s Association’s annual The Longest Day fundraiser, this year on Tuesday, June 21st!
For the last few years, we’ve started writing at dawn on the longest day of the year, summer solstice, and we write until sundown. By asking friends and family to sponsor us (with just a few posts from each of us on social media), we’ve raised more than $10,000 and written 142,268 words! Everyone writes whatever they want. In addition to working on their novels, members of the group have written beautiful memoires, poetry which has made it into published collections, and even the lyrics to songs that are now recorded singles. So bring your writing powers and join us in fighting Alzheimer’s disease. We’d love to double the size of the team, double the wordcount, and double the fundraising total this year. We started building the team earlier this year and wrote together on the winter solstice. It’s a lot easier to write on the shortest day than the longest, so this was a great way to dip our toes in the water. But don’t be intimidated; you can write as much or as little as you want, and you don’t NEED to write all day. Some folx even write on the weekend because work schedules don't permit writing on a weekday, and that's totally cool. Every little bit helps. Just go to this link and click on the green “Join Our Team” link.
(Be sure you don’t accidentally click the “Donate” button. We’d love the donation to the team’s efforts, but we want you to join our team even more!)
The Longest Day event has always been so much fun! Looking forward to writing with you!