Happy Ten Years Today, SWG!
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silwritersguildToday, the SWG officially turned ten years old! It was ten years ago today that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ford_of_bruinen and I started encouraging our friends to join our nascent Silmarillion group. Ever since then, we have grown in ways that I would not have imagined possible on this day ten years ago, when I recall reaching ten members on our Yahoo! group and feeling such a giddy sense of accomplishment.
I recorded a video in honor of our birthday. It's pretty short, and you can see my dusty study and hear my Baltimore accent! What's not to love! :)
This last decade has been simply incredible to me. I never imagined the group taking off like it has. So many people have made the SWG what it is. You are to credit with what the group has become. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart, for all that you have given to this community over the past ten years. Here's to many more!
(Also, a gentle reminder that the birthday cards will be closing soon. On August 1, I will take down the form and begin sending out the albums to recipients. If you want to send birthday cards and have not, our birthday card page can be found here.)
ford_of_bruinen and I started encouraging our friends to join our nascent Silmarillion group. Ever since then, we have grown in ways that I would not have imagined possible on this day ten years ago, when I recall reaching ten members on our Yahoo! group and feeling such a giddy sense of accomplishment.I recorded a video in honor of our birthday. It's pretty short, and you can see my dusty study and hear my Baltimore accent! What's not to love! :)
This last decade has been simply incredible to me. I never imagined the group taking off like it has. So many people have made the SWG what it is. You are to credit with what the group has become. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart, for all that you have given to this community over the past ten years. Here's to many more!
(Also, a gentle reminder that the birthday cards will be closing soon. On August 1, I will take down the form and begin sending out the albums to recipients. If you want to send birthday cards and have not, our birthday card page can be found here.)
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Date: 2015-07-29 11:12 pm (UTC)I never realized the extent to which the SWG played a role in your becoming a professional writer. I suppose I always thought you knew you were an awesome writer and took in professional opportunities accordingly! Although I miss your stories ... well, that's a pretty fine honor to have. :)
We share that commonality since success with my Tolkienfic and the SWG are what encouraged me to go for my English teaching certification and now my MA in humanities. Even though I probably would have always named writing as my best skill, I never saw it as something that I could make my life's work. It was a hobby and nothing more. Who knows what dull as dirt job I'd be doing if not for all this.
Thank you so much for all of your support over the years! :D