I need everyone's help - friends and strangers. This is for a wonderful and important cause!

My friend recently left the forum I helped to start - SpyroForum [link] - due to members heckling her. Rather than be spiteful and trying to ruin SpyroForum, she has turned her frustration into an opportunity to help a charity. The way she's handling her 'revenge' is beautiful. See, she chose to do this because the same forum that ran her out she once put her heart and soul into by doing artwork to raise money for it. Now she wants to do the same thing for this charity. By raising more money for the charity she will feel satisfied in her 'revenge'.

If you want to donate to her for this cause and receive artwork in return, read more about it here: [link] and here: [link]

I am joining her in this endeavor. I cannot draw but I can write and I am willing to do writing to raise money. These are not commissions. They are thank-yous for helping a good cause. I will not make even a single penny off these writings. Every cent you send to me will be passed on. I will have the joy of being able to write and create (my favorite thing in the world), you will a personalized writing as a thank-you, and we both get the satisfaction of helping a great cause!

All donations will go to RSDS research funding. RSDS is a medical disorder which causes the patient to experience serious pain in part or all of their body. There is no cure and little can be done for the sufferers.

Also, RSDS is usually fatal. asked *Razzek to donate to that charity. ~PaintedWolfess is in and out of the hospital, herself.

I previously tried to make money off my writing to help pay for college, etc. I spoke of this in the journal entry 'Will Write For Cash'. I had no responses. I hope that since this is for a selfless act more will respond.

No amount is too small.

I believe am a fairly good writer. I have won several contests through school including one where I was one of the top ten student poets for Michigan-Wisconsin-Illinois out of tens of thousands of entries. I got $100 for that piece. My best payment yet!

I have never sold my work before so I am new at this. Basically, I offer two services:

A)Random Works: You provide me with an "idea cloud" that is a group of words or ideas that I will then form into a piece for you. Idea clouds can consist of: a name/title (optional), a verb (necessary), and 1 to 5 noun(s) (necessary but the number is up to you) or 1 to 5 adjective(s) (necessary but the number is up to you). That's a minimum of 3 words but a maximum of 12 words. Or you can send me an image that I will then write a poem about based on how it impacted me.

B) Specific Works: You tell me exactly what you are looking for.

I can assist in other forms of writing, too. Slogans, advertising and the like. Although I plan to focus on poetry, we can work out deals for other types of works (excluding short stories).

$1 is the starting donation amount. I think that is a fair price. Writing a poem can take my anywhere from a few hours to a few days considering how creatively stimulating the idea is. Some artists charge $5 for their most basic pencil sketches, so I based my pricing off that.

You are probably wondering "why pay this guy to write for me?"

There are many uses for having your own poems - maybe you would like one for a friend or loved one but can't get the words out yourself, maybe you would just enjoy one to read based on your own interests. There's some other reasons, too. The crafty can figure those out.

I can write any sort of poem, sonnets, couplets, haikus, you name it. Except for epics - they are another story!

Here is a sample of my commission work (actually, my first commission) here:

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Written for Tiffani Byers. 10/4/08

Commission Request:

Name: Amber
Verb(s): surgery
Noun(s): knife, rose
Adjective(s): sweet, painless, delicate

"The Last Table"

How subtle is the scalpel upon one’s broken flesh?
In surgery, do we allow ourselves to become but dolls being fixed?
Why does man insist on always being cured, defects forgotten?
A delicate rose does not ask for dropped petals to be restored.

I admit I do not know the answers to my own ponderings.
My sweet Amber is dying but my mind is wandering.
Is it wrong to try to save what seems was being taken away by a force?
Perhaps that knife should not try to fix, but rather end her course.

What am I saying, friend? She’s dead!
Yet, her tragedy must always replay in my head!
Why, you ask of this fanatic?
It’s simply this: if she could not be painless in her last hours, than neither can I in all my rest.

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I accept payment through Pay-Pal. My e-mail is nealpatten@gmail.com

Every donation goes to the RSDSA.

Please consider donating to this cause and helping spread the word.

If you can't donate, at least take the time to tell another dA member about this endeavor or to write a journal about it. It all helps!

Oh, and if trust is an issue I don't have any solution for that. *Razzek could attest to my integrity but there isn't much else I can say. I am going to do what I say so if you can have faith in humankind, than please donate.