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

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

I haven't participated in a B2MeM as yet, except on a personal level by reposting some of my writing during March. I may do that again this year, because I've written a number of short things that I never actually got around to posting in my own LJ! ;-)

I did consider participating in the past, however, because I do like writing to prompts. The passport B2MeM really appealed to me, but Real Life was too much for me at that time and I couldn't even begin to participate. The Bingo looked way too complicated to me, so I didn't even go there. ;-)

I like the sound of the way you are going currently, something low key, that doesn't necessarily require a daily prompt. I'm not any less busy, but if there is something put forth that's not complicated to work with (or run, for the sake of the mods), I'd like to try to participate this year!

[dawn_felagund]

Yay! It's always good to see someone new able to come on board. :)

You're right that we're definitely going to low-key this year, compared to last year. We're also going to work extra hard this year to make the challenge appealing to participants who only want to work on one or two pieces across the month versus those who, say, like to make a drabble or icon per day. I hope you find some inspiration from it! :)