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

[tarion-anarore.livejournal.com]

Okay, I had the honourable intent of reading all the comments but... I think I'll make a short reply and THEN keep reading!

Not ideas, but my favourites so far have been the Last Battle RPG one (definitely not enough time to put that together for this March!) and the passports. Even though I don't think I wrote a blessed thing, I stamped the heck out of those that did! ;) I can't comment at all on Bingo, since I think all I did was the little hotspot icon.
_{For a moment I could not remember why I had no recollection of how Bingo went down, then I remembered -- oh yeah, the dissertation! THAT thing that utterly consumed march and the first part of April...}

I do like the idea of trying to work in a reviews/meta goal in there for those who for whatever reason do not want to write/paint/etc!

Not-so-on-topic, but it amused me that when I picked up my hard copy of The Silmarillion to reread a few days ago, it was still littered with post-its with the quotes for the Circles of the World B2MeM!! (Terrible that it has been that long since I reread...)

I will try to think of some non-intensive, not-just-daily-prompts idea...and read the rest of the comments.

[dawn_felagund]

My Silmarillion is like a personal time capsule! I have little notes in it from my husband, the directions to get fingerprinted for my law enforcement job, all manner of notes, etc. It is amusing--and sentimental!--to look back on all the places that book has been with me! :)

The comments here are intimidating as all get-out (hey, it's B2MeM! it wouldn't be a B2MeM post if it didn't have at least two pages of comments!) but a few ideas are emerging that could be workable, given our mod-power for the year. I'm hoping to send out a post to us mod-types with a summary of the ideas proposed sometime, then we'll put it up for a community vote. If you actually manage to wade through what's posted here, I'd love to know what you think. ;)

[tarion-anarore.livejournal.com]

I also found 3 illicitly* downloaded and printed off fanart pictures in the back - including the Nelyo picture from your icon. ;)

*Not really, gazing at Nelyo pictures is ALWAYS fair use!

I did manage to get through them all! (At least, at that point last night. I'm sure there are many more now!) I confess I started banking on a summary to come later! Now my brain is trying to process all the information I've thrown at it...

[dawn_felagund]

Summary forthcoming this weekend! ;^D

ETA to change to a Nelyo icon, just for you ... ;)

[tarion-anarore.livejournal.com]

Hooray! On both accounts. ;)

Mmm, it's like old times. Speaking of old times...this icon.

_{And apologies for now veering completely off the topic.}

[dawn_felagund]

I love that icon! Ah, the memories ... Kinda makes me want to fire up ol' YIM for a revival of Canatics Hate This. :D

*veers with you*

[tarion-anarore.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! Good ol' Canatics Hate This! Funny times, funny times... Actually, for some reason the unbidden memory of a certain blonde Elf and balconies came to mind the other day... XD

[dawn_felagund]

Those were the days of our youthful abandon and irreverence.

. . .

Who the hell am I kidding. If I still had a balcony, Finrod would still pee off of it.

Now he pees on the compost. Good for the nitrogen content. :D

[tarion-anarore.livejournal.com]

Ah yes...now we have matured entered the days of our slightly-aged abandon and irreverance.

At least there are probably no unsuspecting passersby in your compost. ;)

[dawn_felagund]

There are lots of ants, at least in the summer. I'd imagine they don't appreciate Finrod much. ;)

[tarion-anarore.livejournal.com]

For Finrod's sake, I hope they aren't fire ants. ;)