About Me

    Profile pic

    My name's Benjamin Solah; I'm a horror writer and Marxist revolutionary living in Melbourne, Australia. I work full-time in an office but prefer to focus my attention on writing and politics. I write horror stories with a political edge - I like to portray capitalism as brutal and unjust. I'm also involved in politics as a revolutionary socialist and can frequently be found at left-wing protests including against wars, racism, attack's on worker's rights, environmental destruction, sexism and homophobia.

    www.flickr.com
    bsolah's photos More of bsolah's photos

I also write for...

Currently Reading

Writing blogs

Political blogs

Other blogs

NaNoWriMo: Equal Writes – Raising Money for Same-Sex Marriage Through Novelling

Following my post on Friday asking for people’s interest in sponsoring me for National Novel Writing Month, I have decided to go ahead and do it, raising money for the Equal Love group who are campaigning for same-sex marriage rights.

Equal WritesI have set up a Facebook group which everyone is invited to join and invite other people to. It’s called Equal Writes

People are encouraged to donate in whatever way they can, or if they can’t, at least spread the word and encourage others to. People can donate by pledging so much per a certain number of words (e.g. $1 per 1,000 words,) an amount for finishing and/or just for participating. A few people have already said they’d donate $1 for 1,000 words and will double it if I finish the full 50,000 words.

This is a great way to raise money for the campaign for same-sex marriage rights as well as promote the issue. I would also love the support because people pledging money and supporting me would be a massive motivation and source of encouragement for my writing.

Donations can be made via Paypal, Direct Deposit, Cheque or Money Order – or if you’re friends with me in real life, cash or whatever in person is fine. Contact me at benjamin [at] benjaminsolah [dot] com and I’ll be creating a list of what people are pledging.

Oh and please spread the word about this via your own blogs, Twitter and Facebook!

Related Posts with Thumbnails

There are 4 Comments to "NaNoWriMo: Equal Writes – Raising Money for Same-Sex Marriage Through Novelling"

  • deadale says:

    I dont judge the third sex individuals and i totally believe that you can measure a person through their personality not by their gender orientation. I totally have high respect to them and they are not doing anything wrong in the society.

    But, I mean to have same sex marriages? come on!!!
    where is our values!!! its too much..

  • Rafael says:

    Too much what? That doesn’t make any sense.
    Rafael´s last blog ..October Blog Chain: Ends and Beginnings My ComLuv Profile

  • Too much? Too equal? Is there even degrees of equal? You’re either equal or you’re not.

  • Carol says:

    Deadale:
    “Where is our values!! its too much” what on earth are you talking about?

    By definition, a marriage is about two people who make legal vows that bind them together. If you want to question values, then the real question is, what kind of society do we live in that would make it necessary to have to have special “rights” for two people in love to legally make this committment?
    Carol´s last blog ..Procrastination, Thy Name is Author! My ComLuv Profile

Write a Comment

Comments are highly encouraged. Whether it be small comments just to let me know you've read the post, questions, disagreements or anything you want to add. Debate is welcome, however, I reserve the right to delete comments at my discretion if you're trolling or just commenting to cause trouble. Specifically, racist, sexist and homophobic comments will not be tolerated.

CommentLuv Enabled

Follow me

Subscribe!

    Subscribe with Bloglines

    Add to Google

    Subscribe via email

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

Absolute Write Blogs

Latest Posts

Recent Comments:

Categories

Monthly:

Search

Affiliates

Meta

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes