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

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I loved the Bingo and would like something similiar. I do hope will play bingo again one day and can create more cards. The passport game was great too, but I didn't fancy the RPG. What about a recipe fic type thing where participants are given a list of words to make a story from?

[dawn_felagund]

I'd definitely like to use the bingo cards again for something outside of B2MeM (since we don't usually repeat B2MeM events)! :) The RPG thing isn't something we'd likely run for B2MeM again either as it was 1) really labor-intensive and 2) it was either love-it or hate-it for most people, and we really do try to avoid things that people feel right off the top that they could not or would not want to do.

You're the second person to mention liking the idea of making a story from combined prompts, so we'll keep that in mind! :) Thanks for the feedback, Linda!

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I'll add my voice to building a story from a series of prompts. How about something like a basic set of prompts and then a new one added every few days to keep the element of surprise going?

[dawn_felagund]

Hmmm ... I like that. I could see that working, and working for both our drabblers and our long-story writers!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I rather like this idea!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

That is a great idea!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I hope when we do use the Bingo cards again it will be open to the LOTR writers like BTME as I'm dire at writing Simarillion stories.

[dawn_felagund]

It'll be open to everyone. A lot of the cards have nothing to do with the Silm. :)