Admin Post: November-December Holiday Feast Challenge

[dawn_felagund]

As the year draws to an end and the days in the northern hemisphere grow ever shorter, many communities come together to celebrate the turn of years, chat, sing, play and (most importantly!) enjoy good food. In the spirit of the festive season, whatever holidays or holy days you observe - or even if you choose not to celebrate anything at this time of the year - the SWG would like to invite you to a splendid five-course banquet.

But as everybody has different preferences for their dishes and a digital meal just isn't the same thing as a real-world feast anyway, our banquet is taking the shape of prompt sets instead. For every "course" of our feast, we're offering you a choice of five prompts - writing, reading, commenting, artwork or meta. You can take as many as your appetite (and your time during this busy season) allows. Feel free just to sample one or two prompts, or to stuff yourself to your heart's delight! It's up to you how to use the prompts. You can include several in one fanwork, or create separate pieces for each of them. You don’t have to stick to a single type of prompt, either. If you wish to create fanart for one “course”, comment for another, and write meta for a third, that’s absolutely fine!

• Writing responses include fiction and poetry. Writing responses must be posted to the archive in order to receive a stamp.
• Artwork includes, for the sake of simplicity, all sorts of fannish creativity that isn’t writing - traditional or digital art, but also costume design, video editing, gifsets, playlists or whatever else tickles your fancy. In order to receive a stamp, artwork should be posted to either our Dreamwidth, our LiveJournal community, or on Tumblr tagging us @silmarillionwritersguild and using the tag #swg holiday feast. We also accept submissions on our Tumblr.
• Reading simply requires you to read a chapter of Tolkien that fits the prompt. The chapter can be from any of Tolkien's works, not just those connected to The Silmarillion or even Middle-earth. Please comment on our Dreamwith or LiveJournal, send us an ask, or email us to let us know about the prompt you completed so that we can award you your stamp. We encourage you to comment once at the end of the challenge with all of the stamps you need.
• Commenting requires commenting on a Silmarillion-based fanwork. The comment does not have to be given on the SWG. Please let us now the prompt you completed by commenting on our Dreamwith or LiveJournal, sending us an ask, or emailing us so that we can award you your stamp. We encourage you to comment once at the end of the challenge with all of the stamps you need.
• Meta includes - but is not limited to - formal analysis, criticism, interpretation, bibliography/ link lists, but also headcanons, mind mapping and other less formal works of nonfiction. Meta responses must be posted to the archive in order to receive a stamp.

Note that your responses don't have to be about holidays, celebrations or feasting, unless this is specified in the prompt!

Challenge entries are due by January 10, 2019 in order to receive stamps. Please let us know if you complete all five courses so that we can award you your special stamp.

Click here to view the prompt menu.

Click here for a text-only version of the prompt menu.

Comments

[independence1776]

This looks like a ton of fun!

[dawn_felagund]

I think so too! Happy writing! :)

[narya_flame]

What a great challenge!

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you! I hope you get to make something for it. :D

[fernstrike]

This is such a cool challenge! What a lovely menu that is :D I'm excited to do as many as I can!!! I've been away from SWG for too long </3

[dawn_felagund]

Welcome back! I hope the muses send you lots of creativity! :D

[grundyscribbling]

Is it better to tell you as I complete each reading prompt or save it and tell you when I've finished all of them? (Because I am ambitious, or possibly unrealistic, I'm trying to do the complete menu in both the reading and writing categories. I'm mulling meta.)

[dawn_felagund]

It's easiest for us if you tell us all at once, but if it's easier for you to report them in smaller chunks, go with what works best for you. :)

[grundyscribbling]

Given that I'm almost certainly completing every course for the Reading challenge, I can do whatever's easiest. If all at once is better, all at once it is. :)

[starspray]

I summed up what I did for the reading challenge here: https://starspray.dreamwidth.org/32511.html

complete reading & commenting challenges

[fiachairecht]

Oops, totally forgot to link these over here, but I finished all of the reading and commenting menus.

Reading, completed 5/1/19

Commenting, completed 26/12/18