March 2012 Newsletter Posted (At Long Last!)

[dawn_felagund]

Due to B2MeM being massively successful this year and therefore monopolizing my time in a big way, the newsletter is dreadfully late. I do apologize--but here it is at long last! :)

http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/news/march2012.php

This month's edition contains news from the SWG, from groups beyond our borders, stories added and updated during February, and the current challenges on the site. In honor of Back to Middle-earth Month, Oshun has contributed the first part of what promises to be an informative and insightful biography of Gandalf. This part considers how he appears in LotR and The Hobbit (compared to the very different character we see in The Silmarillion and related works) as well as the archetypal roles he plays. The biography is also illustrated by Pandemonium_213.

Pandë has also contributed another in her series of brilliantly funny Gothmog & Draugluin comics. This month, Melkor prepares to whisk his wife away on a romantic getaway, and Lil Gothmog heads off to Tol-in-Gaurhoth with his babysitter (sorry! observer!), Professor Thû.

Many thanks to Oshun, Pandemonium, Rhapsody, and Angelica, who contributed to this month's newsletter. (And got their stuff in on time! :) Enjoy!

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I really did not want you to think you really had to do it. I thought of trying to talk you out of it, but I know how stubborn you are.

Thank you so much for everything!!

[ladybrooke]

Wonderful job everyone! (And Dawn, I have no idea how you put this together on top of Bingo.)

(Even if I shouldn't have read the quote of the month...the plot bunnies are after me, again.)

[dawn_felagund]

I know how stubborn you are.

Ha! Yes, you do know me. ;) If you'd said, "Why not give it a rest this month?" I probably would have stayed up all night just to prove I could do it. ;)

I did actually think of not doing it this month, but we've never missed a month in almost seven years, and I didn't want to break that pretty impressive streak.

[dawn_felagund]

I'm just happy that someone reads the Quote of the Month! :D

I don't have to write any of the newsletter anymore. From my end, it's a lot of copying, pasting, HTML coding, and behind-the-scenes stuff to get files correctly uploaded and linked. It only takes a few hours, but those hours are hard to come by during March ...

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I can see wanting to do for no other reason but that. It's a great records. Thanks again.

[ladybrooke]

I do :D I like quote of the month - it gives me ideas, though I seldom have time to write them.

I bet they are hard to come by, which is how I don't see how you have the time (I wouldn't.)

[dawn_felagund]

I had a chuckle at this since I marvel daily at how you have the time to write all of those stories! :) And go to school at the same time, if I'm not mistaken ...

Newsletter Time is a normal part of the month in the House of Felagund. Around the 30th or so, I say, "You know what's coming up?" and my husband laughs and says, "Uh oh, it's Newsletter Time!"

[ladybrooke]

I barely sleep, except on the weekends....literally, 4 to 6 hours of sleep Sunday through Thursday nights. These next 3 or so weeks, I'll probably sleep even less. ;p Yes, I go to school at the same time, though I had spring break that first week :)

That's nice that your husband is so understanding. My dad gets it, but the rest of my family thinks it's weird how much time I spend on fandom things (and then there's certain people in my family who don't even know that I write fanfiction).