Poll: B2MeM 2013 Decisions
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b2memETA 11:32 PM EST on January 25: The poll is closed! Thanks to all who voted. Taking into account votes made in the comments by those without LJ accounts, the final tabulation is:
Scavenger Hunt/Quotations--17
Origins--9
Acrostic--8
Alphabet--17
Reading Week in March--12
Reading Week in April--28
No Reading Week--6
Thanks, everyone, for the excellent feedback and ideas about what we should do this year! Because we received so many diverse responses, we have decided to poll the community to see what everyone would prefer to do. Below the cut, you will find two polls. In the first poll, you will choose this year's theme (the concept that will unify the prompts). Not all suggestions are on the list. Some ideas simply won't work this year because we have less availability from our mods than we did last year. Also, we try to provide a variety of events, so we generally try to avoid repeating events across consecutive years. For example, since some participants dislike a game format, we generally try not to have consecutive years of games. The last post will serve as a resource for planning future events, so if your suggestion is a better fit for a future year, you may see it then.
The second poll concerns the reading week that was discussed on the last post. In order to provide more closure to the event and the opportunity to enjoy the works created for B2MeM, we are going to try holding a reading week this year. This week will be set aside for just reading (no prompts!) with, of course, shinies for those who participate. This poll will determine when we will hold the reading week (there is also an option to vote against having a reading week at all).
Please vote for your preference for each. I strongly encourage reading the summaries of each option below so that there is no misunderstanding about what you are voting for. (Some are obvious, but some are less so! :) If you do not have an LJ account, leave a comment (comments are screened) with you preferences. We appreciate comments signed with the name you use in fandom.
ETA: I'm going to collect the poll results sometime Friday evening (I'm on EST, or GMT-5), so please make sure to have your preferences recorded by then. That will allow the mods over a month to get everything together.
Please note that no matter what is chosen for this year's event, the following holds true for all B2MeM events:
There has also been a lot of interest in seeing reviews and meta allowed to count for challenge responses this year, so we will do our best to work these into the final event as well.
Please choose from the following theme options in the poll:
Scavenger hunt/quotations. Prompts will be quotes from Tolkien's books. Multiple quotes will be provided per day from various books to appeal to various writers/artists. Pick a quote, locate the source of the quote (that's the scavenger hunt part!), and create something based on that passage (the characters, event, theme; the response needn't focus on that particular scene).
Origins. Prompts will have to do with the theme of origins and beginnings in Tolkien's world.
Acrostic. Each participant will draw a character name. The goal is to create a piece or a chapter for each letter in the name, i.e., the main character, location, genre, theme, title, or first line starts with that letter. Participants who finish their first acrostic can receive another, if they wish to keep going. (Note that the pieces do not have to have anything to do with the character's name you are using for the acrostic. So a person who draws BILBO could create a piece for each of the following self-created prompts: Barad-dur, Ioreth, love poem, first line "Bree seemed a long time past for Aragorn," theme of order vs. chaos.)
Alphabet. Each prompt begins with a different letter of the alphabet for a total of 26 prompts.
[Poll #1891853]
Scavenger Hunt/Quotations--17
Origins--9
Acrostic--8
Alphabet--17
Reading Week in March--12
Reading Week in April--28
No Reading Week--6
Thanks, everyone, for the excellent feedback and ideas about what we should do this year! Because we received so many diverse responses, we have decided to poll the community to see what everyone would prefer to do. Below the cut, you will find two polls. In the first poll, you will choose this year's theme (the concept that will unify the prompts). Not all suggestions are on the list. Some ideas simply won't work this year because we have less availability from our mods than we did last year. Also, we try to provide a variety of events, so we generally try to avoid repeating events across consecutive years. For example, since some participants dislike a game format, we generally try not to have consecutive years of games. The last post will serve as a resource for planning future events, so if your suggestion is a better fit for a future year, you may see it then.
The second poll concerns the reading week that was discussed on the last post. In order to provide more closure to the event and the opportunity to enjoy the works created for B2MeM, we are going to try holding a reading week this year. This week will be set aside for just reading (no prompts!) with, of course, shinies for those who participate. This poll will determine when we will hold the reading week (there is also an option to vote against having a reading week at all).
Please vote for your preference for each. I strongly encourage reading the summaries of each option below so that there is no misunderstanding about what you are voting for. (Some are obvious, but some are less so! :) If you do not have an LJ account, leave a comment (comments are screened) with you preferences. We appreciate comments signed with the name you use in fandom.
ETA: I'm going to collect the poll results sometime Friday evening (I'm on EST, or GMT-5), so please make sure to have your preferences recorded by then. That will allow the mods over a month to get everything together.
Please note that no matter what is chosen for this year's event, the following holds true for all B2MeM events:
- All Tolkien-based fanworks are welcome. Just because, for example, the prompt is a quote from The Hobbit does not mean that your response has to concern The Hobbit.
- There is no minimum for participation. As in years past, if you want to use multiple prompts to construct a longer work, that is totally acceptable. Also, if you can create something for one prompt, that is perfectly fine. Or for two, five, ten ... you decide how much you wish to participate! We want to stress that whether you can join us for one prompt or 31, you are always welcome.
There has also been a lot of interest in seeing reviews and meta allowed to count for challenge responses this year, so we will do our best to work these into the final event as well.
Theme Options
Please choose from the following theme options in the poll:
Scavenger hunt/quotations. Prompts will be quotes from Tolkien's books. Multiple quotes will be provided per day from various books to appeal to various writers/artists. Pick a quote, locate the source of the quote (that's the scavenger hunt part!), and create something based on that passage (the characters, event, theme; the response needn't focus on that particular scene).
Origins. Prompts will have to do with the theme of origins and beginnings in Tolkien's world.
Acrostic. Each participant will draw a character name. The goal is to create a piece or a chapter for each letter in the name, i.e., the main character, location, genre, theme, title, or first line starts with that letter. Participants who finish their first acrostic can receive another, if they wish to keep going. (Note that the pieces do not have to have anything to do with the character's name you are using for the acrostic. So a person who draws BILBO could create a piece for each of the following self-created prompts: Barad-dur, Ioreth, love poem, first line "Bree seemed a long time past for Aragorn," theme of order vs. chaos.)
Alphabet. Each prompt begins with a different letter of the alphabet for a total of 26 prompts.
[Poll #1891853]
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