September 2018 Challenge: Sitcom!

[oloriel]

This month's theme is Sitcom and features a bingo card for participants to self-select a prompt or prompts to inspire their fanworks. While the prompts are based off of sitcom tropes, your fanwork doesn't have to be a sitcom or inspired by one; it doesn't even have to be (or attempt to be!) humorous. To participate as a creator, you need only to create a fanwork using one prompt; however, for the more adventurous among us, we encourage you to combine prompts, complete rows, or attempt one of the dozen variations of card patterns. You may use multiple prompts in a single fanwork or use prompts to inspire multiple fanworks.

Sitcom! Bingo text-only card

Fanworks are due by October 10 in order to receive a stamp. If you complete a row or a full card, please include this information in your story notes or contact us so that we award you the correct stamps. As always, late fanworks are welcome but do not receive stamps.

See our Challenges page for full SWG challenge guidelines.

Admin Post: SWG Discord Survey Results

[dawn_felagund]

Remember that Discord survey I asked people to take a few weeks ago? I want to share the results of that so that we can start the next steps!  The clear favorite was the recommendation club, which is a super low-key project to run from the admin side and so is something we can start right away. (And thank you, hhimring​, for suggesting this idea!) If you want to help brainstorm a name or have other opinions on this you'd like to share, head on over the the #town-hall channel on our Discord, comment here, or email us at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org.

The next favorite was the writers workshop, which is actually quite appropriate since I started the SWG to, in fact, be a writers workshop, a mission that was never realized because we decided to focus on building an archive instead. This is a project that will take a little more planning from the admin side, so I will start a draft of guidelines this weekend and open discussion with my comods.

Some of you were interested in volunteering and will likely get an email from me within the next week or so to see if either of these projects are something you might like to work on. Thank you to everyone who shared ideas and gave feedback as part of the survey!