silwritersguild | Jul. 30th, 2010

Hi, everyone,

In the past few days, we've received several new themes and tokens for our birthday celebration that I wanted everyone to be aware of. Fyi, I generally update the website with new themes and tokens within a day of receiving them. The updated list is both on the birthday page and the sidebar that appears on every page. I'll post updates here and on LJ once or twice per week only to keep from spamming the list. :)

Here's what we have for new themes:

Through the Ages. Stories or artwork featuring characters that belong in more than one age of Arda such as Galadriel or Elrond and who influence more than one age of history.

The Songfic That Wasn't. This theme is for 'songfic' in which you use a line from a song once in your story (it may be the title, in the dialogue, in the description - wherever you like). You are expected to credit the original song or poem, of course, but you may not quote the entire song in your story.

And new tokens:

The Box of Tissues. To honor stories that manage to be even sadder than the original.

Straight to the Heart. This token can be given to any story or poem that affected the reader in any way possible. Maybe it made you start writing, it gave you thought about something, or just simply touched you deeply.

Not That There's Anything Wrong with That. The most unlikely slash pairing that actually works.

I will attach a complete list of current themes and tokens at the end of this message.

Remember, you can still suggest a theme, suggest a token, send in work for an existing theme, and recommend a story or author for one of our existing tokens. That's lots of options! :) More details on all of the above and forms to send in your suggestions and entries can be found on our birthday page.

And please do contact me or one of the other mods if you have any questions or need any help. Many, many thanks to everyone who has sent in stuff so far!

All the best,

Dawn

( Complete List of Themes and Tokens )