Saturday Is the Last Day for Drawing Entries!

[dawn_felagund]

This post is a friendly reminder that Saturday, August 15, is the final day to enter something in the SWG birthday drawing. When the clock strikes midnight (according to Eastern Daylight Time, anyway) and the calendar changes to August 16, new entries will not be counted.

If you plan on entering, please make sure you read the 10th birthday drawing rules before posting your story. (Prizes are listed here as well!)

Questions? Ask here or email us at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org.

Comments

[ysilme]

Thanks for the reminder! I nearly managed to miss it and wish I had had more time, but my Ardor in August assignment had to take precedence.
Are you planning to run other prompt generator based challenges, too? Not because of any prizes, but it was fun, and helpful to have to write something _now_ and not just collect the great prompt ideas it generated for later ... ;o)

[dawn_felagund]

You're welcome! I'm glad you made it in time. :)

We mod-people have talked about retooling the challenges a bit, since they aren't very well used. However, they are a historic part of our group, being one of the original things we offered, so I think we're also reluctant to scrap them entirely. We could certainly consider using the prompt generator again--thank you for the thought! :)

I am getting ready to write my thesis in October, which means that I am free beginning in February. At that point, we'll begin tackling the changes and improvements we want to make to the group. I expect challenges will be one of the first things we address, since it's relatively easy. So spring should see some needed changes finally falling into place.

[ysilme]

I'm glad you made it in time. :)
I found out for this purpose how to add another clock to my PC's standard clock, so I wouldn't miss the deadline! Thankfully, my beta is also a night owl and was still awake.

I saw the challenges as one of the first things when I found SWG, too, and always wanted to give some of them a go. I never managed so far with other things going around, but I browse them occasionally when I need additional inspiration for something else when I'm stuck.

[dawn_felagund]

I'm glad to hear that. That was kind of our hope in setting up the challenges as we did (i.e., not having a deadline). The field was rather crowded with groups offering challenges when the SWG was founded. It seems less popular now (especially when I just saw that tolkien_weekly is inquiring if there is still interest in what they do ...) Now there seem to be more fests and swaps.