April 17 Block Party Prompt: Feedback Friday!

[dawn_felagund]

It’s Feedback Friday!

Our Block Party is all about connecting with each other in a joyful way, and what is more joyful than getting feedback on a fanwork you’ve worked so hard on? Today’s prompt is about bringing that joy to someone else and telling a creator whose work you adore just how much it means to you:

Leave feedback on a fanwork you love.

Please remember that if you want a stamp for the Block Party challenge and you are not posting fanworks according to the usual challenge guidelines, you should let me or one of the other mods know so that we can get your stamp for you. We can always be reached via email at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org.

If you’re wondering what I’m going on about, our Block party page has all the details.

Admin Post: Upcoming Block Party Event: Fanfiction Book Club

[dawn_felagund]

One of our first live events for our Block Party is the Fanfiction Book Club! This actualizes an idea, tossed around in many fannish spaces and specifically discussed on the SWG’s Discord, that fanfiction deserves to be discussed as literature, not just as something inherently (and only) enjoyable to fans of the original text. In the Fanfiction Book Club, we are going to try out this idea by reading and discussing fanfics as one would in ... well, a book club.

Here is how it will work: If you want your story discussed in the book club, you can sign it up. This is not a workshop! Please sign up stories that are finished and that you are proud of. You should sign up your story no later than Monday, April 20.

(One of the things you will be asked for on the sign-up is when you are available to discuss your story on April 26. This is because we have members in just about every habitable timezone and don't want to freeze out people from participating in, say, Tuvalu because a schedule built around Europe and the Americas means they'd be up in the middle of the night to have an equal shake at talking about their story.)

On April 21, I will put together a discussion schedule. Sign-ups will open to choose the stories you want to read and discuss. Anyone can sign up here, even if you don't have a story being discussed; however, if you have a story being discussed, you need to sign up to discuss at least two stories by someone else. This is simply to ensure that there are more people willing to talk about stories rather than just have theirs talked about. If you have a story on the list, you'll have till April 24 to choose what stories by other authors you want to discuss. Sign-ups will remain open until the event starts.

On Sunday, April 26, we will meet on the SWG Discord server to talk about stories in a text channel, following the schedule. There will be at least one moderator involved to keep time and keep the discussion on-topic. If you’ve never participated in a book club before, I will provide a list of potential discussion questions ahead of time, but discussions are in no way limited to this, and authors should also feel free to ask questions of readers!

The Fanfiction Book Club page has more information and the link to sign up a story, if you’d like your story discussed.

Questions?Leave a comment on this post or email the SWG mod team at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org