B2MeM 2014: Seasons of Middle-earth Review Challenge Guidelines

[dawn_felagund]

As part of this year's Back to Middle-earth Month challenge, we are encouraging our readers to show their love to our writers and artists by leaving comments on the stories, poems, and art they enjoy! To encourage reviewing, part of B2MeM 2014 will include a review challenge.

Below, you will find 15 different review challenges to complete throughout the month. You can do one or do them all! If you don't want to complete any of the specific challenges, the comments you do leave on B2MeM 2014 pieces still count toward the grand prize. At the end of the month, add up all the comments you leave on B2MeM 2014 stories, poems, and art and collect your grand prize.

Guidelines

1. Any comment left on any piece of writing or art created for B2MeM 2014 counts toward the challenge. Comments on compilation and non-compilation B2MeM 2014 pieces count. (For challenges #12 and #13, you may review pieces created for past B2MeM events.)


2. A comment cannot count for more than one review challenge. The exception is the grand prize: All comments you leave on B2MeM 2014 writing and art will count toward your total for the grand prize.


3. Some B2MeM 2014 pieces may be posted on sites other than the b2mem community. You are welcome to leave comments on any site where B2MeM 2014 writing and art are shared.


4. As always, we are operating on the honor system as far as prizes claimed for the review challenge. However, if you'd like to report your review, brag about your accomplishments, or squee more over the piece you just commented on, you can leave a comment to the thread below for the challenge you completed.


5. Once the month is over, we will put together the review challenge stamps you earned into a single graphic if you want us to do so. Comment here when you complete a challenge, or contact us at the end of the month with the challenges you have completed.

Review Challenges

This year, in the spirit of using comments to send encouragement and love to our writers and artists, we are offering Tolkien-themed postage stamps for completing the various review challenges below! You can use the HTML code beside each stamp to display your prize wherever HTML is acceptable, or right-click to save the image to your computer and share it on the image host of your choice. At the end of the month, we will put together all of the stamps you earn onto a collector's page for you to display.

( Review Challenge Stamps )

Grand Prizes for Reviewing

Once the month of March is over, you can collect your grand prize based on the total number of comments that you leave on B2MeM 2014 pieces. Remember that the reviews you write for the challenges above also count toward your total for the grand prize. Banners and icons for the grand prize will be posted to the community at the end of the month. The grand prizes will be as follows:

60+ reviews: Silmaril
50-59 reviews: mithril
40-49 reviews: platinum
30-39 reviews: gold
20-29 reviews: silver
10-19 reviews: bronze

B2MeM 2014: Guidelines for Non-Compilation Writing and Art

[dawn_felagund]

During years when B2MeM requires a sign-up or a commitment of some sort, we allow writers and artists who are unable or not comfortable with participating to nonetheless play with the prompts and share their work on the b2mem community. This year is no different, and we welcome writing and art on the community that was not created as part of our compilation.

1. Non-compilation pieces should be posted to the community as usual. Make sure that you use the correct posting format. You can find tagging guidelines here. Your piece will not post immediately to the community. Instead, it will join the queue, and a moderator will unlock it on the designated day.


2. Non-compilation pieces will be unlocked at approximately 11:30 PM GMT on the following days:
   
   
   • Sunday, March 2
   
   
   • Sunday, March 9
   
   
   • Sunday, March 16
   
   
   • Sunday, March 23
   
   
   • Saturday, March 29
   
   Any piece not in the queue by the designated time for unlocking that week's non-compilation pieces will be unlocked the following week. On April 1, any remaining non-compilation pieces will be unlocked and open posting to the community will again be enabled.
   
   Please note that there is a limit to the number of entries that a member may have in the queue at a single time. If you plan to submit more than five entries in a single week, contact us at b2mem.mod@gmail.com so that we can figure out the best way to submit your pieces that week.


3. You can create non-compilation pieces for any of the prompts, even if they've been claimed as part of the compilation.


4. B2MeM welcomes all Tolkien-based fanworks. All genres, formats, time periods, characters, pairings, ratings, and interpretations are welcome. Alternate universe (AU) and crossovers are fine, as long as they have a significant basis in Tolkien. You can use multiple prompts to create a single piece, or you can use prompts to jump-start or make progress on a work-in-progress.


5. You do not have to post prompts only during the week that season is featured for the compilation. For example, if you are working on a summer prompt, you do not have to post it during the week that the summer prompts are shared as part of the compilation.


6. You are welcome to post your non-compilation pieces on other sites during the month of March, even if your piece has not yet been posted or unlocked on the b2mem community. You are not required to post B2MeM pieces to the community. Links to works already posted on other sites are welcome on the community as well but must still include header information.

You can find the complete prompt list here!