Back to Middle-earth Month

If you or someone else who is writing daily wants to make recognition banners, then you are welcome to do so. However, we are not using a daily prompt format this year; we welcome people to use the prompts however they want and have opened the community to those pieces, but the emphasis this year has been placed on the compilation to give those writers and artists who prefer to work in that mode a year in which they feel this is "their" event. Please keep in mind that many of these people have felt "excluded" for the past three years, as we have done daily prompts for three years in a row now. It needed a break this year. I'm sorry that you and perhaps others are disappointed by that, but the fact remains that B2MeM was not intended to be a challenge that always employed a daily prompt; rather, it is supposed to change formats each year. Also, even if we were to make further concessions toward daily prompts, I simply do not have the volunteer assistance. I have asked on multiple occasions for help with banners and received none aside from help from my comods with the general participation banners. The stamps you see made for the review challenge were all made by me and took pretty much my entire last weekend to do and, I'm sorry, I am not giving up the entire month of March and my own time for writing to making graphics. If you or others feel passionately enough that you want "impulse writers" to be recognized, then put your money where you mouth is and volunteer. I simply have no more blood, sweat, or tears to give to this event.