Christmas Cards?

What charities send free Christmas cards to people who donate (for them to send to other people)? I know that World Wildlife Federation does, for example.

I'm thinking of optimizing my giving pattern this time of year.

Writing Log: Finally!

10/24/2009 - Saturday

Deleted from Chapter 18

Old chapter wordcount: 8,383
New chapter wordcount: 5,586
Vicesteed Draft 1 wordcount: 207,877
Vicesteed Draft 2 current wordcount: 165,203
Notes: This is a Valinda chapter. So most of my editing was to make her slightly more sane, and to remove the worst of the wisdom chip parroting information excessively.
Reason for deleting scene: Chilling imagery, yes. Making sense? No.
Which deleted scene is it anyway?

It moved like its legs were broken and it was dragging itself along on the stumps. Valinda crossed her arms, cold. She didn't want the memory that came with the thought.

Deleted from Chapter 19



Old chapter wordcount: 2,841
New chapter wordcount: 0
Vicesteed Draft 1 wordcount: 207,877
Vicesteed Draft 2 current wordcount: 162,159
Notes: I deleted the entire chapter. Most of this was her recovering from a murder attempt I decided to remove from the plotline. Part of it was having a phone conversation plotting treason, which really made more sense moved around to the earlier personal conversation. There were parts of this chapter, key bits of information or plot movement, that I had to rework into the rest of the novel, but mostly--poof! Gone.
Reason for deleting scene: Unnecessary plotline. Need to cut word count.
Which deleted scene is it anyway?
( Small excerpt )

10/23/2009 - Friday
* Posted writing log.
* Penthius freewriting about bastard heirs.
* (Finally!) processed Flash Me's personal (with editorial comment) rejection of "Waiting."
* (Finally!) responded to 2 MinnSpeccer's extracurricular crits of Vicesteed chapters with thanks and more chapters. Bad Abra, no biscuit for speed of response.
* (Finally!) responded to another friend's crit of Vicesteed chs. 23-26. So delayed on that one that the biscuits might as well be in another universe.
* (Finally!) printed and filed 4 Critters crits of Vicesteed chapter 29.
* Wrote the paragraph summaries for Vicesteed chs. 31-32, and the "everything you need to know to critique" for chs. 33-34. Those are the last chapters in the book, so this was basically a rough one-page summary of the whole thing. That was hard.
* (Finally!) loaded up the last 2 chapters of Vicesteed to Critters for critique. Now I just have to do 9+ crits to get it critiqued. Ulp.
* Submitted "Periwinkle Eyes" to the Micro Award (for flash fiction first published in 2009). Now I just need to get to a post office to figure postage.
* Updated Spec the Halls guidelines, emailed/posted/x-posted reminder, set up RSS feed, and contacted Ralan, Duotrope, and Critters about it.

Oh, Livejournal.

• Yarg. Found LJ's feed problems annoying enough that I switched all my feeds over to Google Reader.

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