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

[iavalir.livejournal.com]

Another idea came to my mind, but I'm worried this will make all the mods want to kill me, hahahaha. :) For the ideas that people do like, is there a chance to make this year a Playroom kind of thing? Participants can choose what game they want to play: scavenger hunt or a simple bingo-type game or any other challenge that was mentioned. :) If that's something that's doable, I think that could be fun.

I definitely would love a more simplified version of the Bingos. The points and minimal fill requirements can be taken out to reduce the pressure and make creating the focus of the event. :)

[dawn_felagund]

We'll keep that in mind! :) Don't worry, we don't kill people for suggesting ideas. ;) But we do have a bit of a shortage of people-power this year, compared to last year, so we do have to aim for something simpler, ideally that we can get ready ahead of time and post during the month of March.

Thanks for the idea--I'll definitely bring it up!