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

[arwen75]

I properly participated for the first time last year with the Bingo challenge although I did make an abortive attempt on the passport (real life illness got in the way). I surprised myself with how much I managed to write last year in my busier semester for teaching (university lecturer). However I did only take a few cards so managed myself that way. I liked having the prompts to give me ideas - I seem to work better with them. I will admit I do not count myself as a great writer and am still learning.

So I would like so something involving prompts I think and something where I do not feel I have to write everyday given my hectic schedule in March. Amongst everything at work there is a big personal thing going on.

[dawn_felagund]

Thanks for the feedback! The majority of participants cannot write something every day, so that will never, ever be required, so no worries there. :) We are going to try very hard this year to make the challenge equally attractive to those who would rather focus on a few works rather than doing something every day--the most difficult part of planning B2MeM is always striking this balance! :)