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

From a Reader not a writer

[mikononyte.livejournal.com]

As a reader type participant (no card or anything last year, and it was my first time even finding such an event) I'd like to make comment.

I loved the whole Bingo thing as far as quality and difference in works, but as a reader/commenter it was most difficult to keep up. Each writer deserves at least an "I loved it" or something but with the sheer volume of works I know I missed many, skipped comments on probably most just to keep up as best I could. Not fair at all to those who worked so hard!

So my vote would be for something a bit less hectic for the creative teams so that we lowly readers can give our complete and enthusiastic attention and remarks where they do the most good and not fall to the wayside.

I look forward to rooting everyone on!

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you for your feedback! We're definitely going for something low-key this year; this has been the predominant request on this post, and we also lack the mod hours that we had last year.

As a writer, I will say that it's always awesome to get a comment on a story posted a while ago, in case you ever get the chance to catch up on any you missed. ;) But I know the participants will appreciate that cheering on!