B2MeM 2013 Is Coming!

[dawn_felagund]

Yes, that time of year is almost here again: time for our annual Back to Middle-earth Month event! Once again, the Silmarillion Writers' Guild, Many Paths to Tread, and Arda Inspired will be teaming up to bring the Tolkien fandom a month of fun, creativity, and community.

We are currently in the planning phases for this year's challenge, and we need help and feedback from our community to help us decide the challenge we want to run this year. If you have an idea for an event, please do share it in a comment here! (If you want to see what kinds of events we've run in the past, we have links to them all on the SWG site here: http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/specialprojects.php.)

Even if you don't have a specific idea for an event, if there's a past event that you loved (or a past event that you'd rather not see something similar to this year), please comment and let us know.

We have only one requirement for B2MeM events: They should be open to the entire Tolkien fan-writing and -art communities. Ideally, this should also allow people to participate whether they have one or thirty-one days free to work on challenges.

We look forward to hearing everyone's ideas and getting this year's event ready to roll!

Comments

[moetushie]

My feedback won't come to much -- I've only done the bingo cards last year, and I thoroughly enjoyed them! Yes, looking back, I probably got my competitive streak get the better of me -- it's the curse and the allure of bingo! -- if I had to do it again, I would have probably concentrated on fewer stories or made a few graphics instead. This year, definitely, I'd pull back a lot.

(But really, I still quite like some of the things I came up with, so it's a positive thing for me.)

But what I really loved about the cards was that I could combine prompts into one big prompt, which was, more often than not, very inspiring!

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you for the feedback on this! :) And, yes, even just being able say "I liked this about last year's challenge and didn't like this" is immensely helpful to us. Because, ultimately, if everyone is saying, "I would like to scale back a bit this year," then we know we don't want to do another crazy-massive challenge like last year. (And that does seem to be the prevailing opinion, coupled with the fact that we have less mod availability than last year.)