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!

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

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.