January

• Literature News - Dec / Jan 2013 and Jan / Feb 2013

• Literature DD Roundup- January 2013

• Monthly Literature Critique Thread: January

• Writing Opportunities (Publishing) is submitted. [Guess what, it's still being updated! Check it out! Go, go!]
• BeccaJS gave us this to think about: "Are your deviations really in the right category?" So, really do you know if they're in the right category? CV's are volunteers, but are always looking for input so spit it out, what do you want to see from your friendly neighborhood lit cvs?
• The Seniority Announcement of January honored a few of our own literature community members: raspil,  spoems,  vespera,  dreamsinstatic,  OfOneSoul,  FuzzyHoser,  MagicalJoey,  inknalcohol,  and mirz333!
• neurotype-on-discord made sure we started the year out right with that question and then these articles: No One Cares About Your Story [and guess what, it's not exactly about that. It's an article about how to make people care about your story.] and Fanfiction, Fiction, and Nonfiction, because there is a distinction!
• The group WritersInk put out a fantastic series of articles concerning DD's: DDs: An Introduction, The DD Team, Identifying a Possible DD
• We can't forget that Pride and Prejudice turned 200 in January as well. What a busy month!
• Before you scroll down don't forget January marked the My Prompt Journal (Lit Community Experiment cont.), which had a great turnout. If you like things like that, maybe you should watch CRLiterature...

• There were quite a few competitions and events going on in January like the "A Hunt For Literature", a Scavenger hunt for lit pieces that found on this list, it was tons of fun!
• The month was also the start of LiliWrites's Daily Deviation Suggestion Drive which was a project inspired by thorns's Complaint Challenge and garnered a ton of DD suggestions. You don't even need a drive to suggest to our CV's either.
• The Alternate Universe Contest and the Review Competition were two other great contests that began in January. Can't forget the Critmas Results!

• Before you go asking for advice take a stop at Master raspil's forum topic that leads to an outside dA link: 7 Characteristics of Successful Fiction Writers.
• PinkyMcCoversong posts her forum discussion "HOW PUBLISHING WORKS: Your questions answered by folks in the industry." Did you know you can still post and ask questions, but be sure to read through some of the other questions first before asking. It may have all ready been answered! She also started a movement, "JanNoWriMo" a time to bust out that unfinished NaNoWriMo or Camp NaNoWriMo draft and edit!
• Cakelord neurotype-on-discord loves to ask question to make you think, this time she asked "How to write convincing characters?" to help you understand what makes characters believable and what you can do to help that.
• doodlerTM began a conversation about Learning about the craft vs. Learning the craft.
• Not sure how to gratefully and gracefully accept critique? isthisthingstillon started up a forum topic with just that in mind: Gratefully, Gracefully Accepting Critique.
• We all have our stumbling blocks as far as what we're comfortable writing and what we know we can write. HaveTales-WillTell challenges that and wanted to know how far [you've] come since joining dA!

February

• Jan / Feb 2013

• Literature DD Roundup- February 2013

• Monthly Literature Critique Thread: February

• February can be a bit of a slow month[everyone is too busy sending valentines or something], but it is also NaHaiWriMo or National Haiku Writing Month where every day you write a haiku for the entire month!
• Odyssey Propulsion 7 announcing the last written part of the project, Odyssey II. Where deviants were challenged to "continue the story".
• Want some good reasons to write? neurotype-on-discord delivered: Good Reasons to Write, short but true. Don't forget she also started that Reprobates Debate: Prosetry, where she fostered an environment for the discussion of what makes prosetry...prosetry Or what doesn't. Which turned exceptionally interesting! Rejection isn't easy and neurotype-on-discord made sure February was full of vibrant discussion topics and information. dparparita gave a nice Survival Guide for the Thin-Skinned Writer
• WritersInk continued their journals concerning DD's with How to Suggest a DD and DDs: Wrap-up and Discussion. Then discusses a bit about Daily Literature Deviations
• Miscats are rampant, so CRLiterature put out a poll: "Visual, Concrete, Experimental poetry- can you define all three?" to help us think about our knowledge of the categories we may submit to.
• Poetry was a big theme during February, so Nichrysalis put out an informative article with Tips from Talented Rhymers
• Original Plagiarists because maybe being original isn't all it's cracked up to be....

• julietcaesar wanted to know about some thoughts on Memorising and Reciting Poetry.
• We all have secrets, writing secrets that is. ,We have stuffed secrets such as how we still can't spell that word, don't know how to use the semi-colon, overuse of metaphors, and never finishing that poem, beneath all that discarded paper and overused pens. BeccaJS, by the Grace of the Mighty Word, offered to hear those confessionals.
• Why do you poem/prose? I told you neurotype-on-discord likes these "make you think" questions.
• raspil delved into a discussion on how your subconscious helps you write!

March

• Literature DD Roundup- March 2013

• Monthly Literature Critique Thread: March

THANK YOU LADY COCONUT MAKE SOME NICE SPEECH HERE, STEPHANY. DO IT.

• March brought in the Gallery Makeover Project to better help organize, define and weed out unused/unnecessary catgories on deviantART. You can be that means Literature Gallery Restructure! MAKEOVERS FOR ALL THE LIT.
• March 15th gave dA litlovers a nice Chat with Lit CV's
• CRLiterature the official dA hub for all things literature got super busy and relaunched their bi-weekly prompt series, FotoFriday as well as reminding deviants that not all of us define things, like "literary" fiction?, the same way. Continuing on the thread of fiction, another poll posted was: "Fill in the blank (and feel free to elaborate in comments): Most of the fiction I write fits..."
 
• Nichrysalis began a fascinating article series, The E-Literature Catalog which "aims to showcase three exemplary works of literature of a certain theme that are available online from renowned authors, publishers and other trusted sources". Two articles were posted in March, World Literature and Spoken Word
• The bestest thorny coconut[thorns] ran a Word Wars Chat Tour, then decided it would be better suited to a group [so her minions would be able to help easier] and thus March gave way to the Word Wars Grand Opening!
• Reprobates Debate: Capitalization which is a hot button issue with writers, is capitlization good? Hurtful towards the writer? Somewhere inbetween. Well this debate made sure everyone could put their opinions forward respectively.

• The AWAKENING or ASLEEPENING  Contest began in late March and was a contest that kept in mind both hemispheres. Fall and Spring!
• The Review Project made a comeback in March, even though it was open to more than just writers this time around.
• The Alternate Universe Contest RESULTS After all, what isn't there to love about an Alternative Universe?

• PE: Poetry Forms Week!
• Yes You Can!
• The Villanelle
• PE: Poetry Forms- An A-Z
• France's Fancy Fixed Forms: Rondeau and Friends
• Project Educate: Free Verse
• PE - SciFaiku Poetry Form
• Poetic Meter: A Complete Reference Manual
• The Ghazal: An Introduction
• Project Educate: Interview with =Sammur-Amat
• PE: Interview with some dA Haiku Masters
• Why Form?
• Sonnets
• Project Educate: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Renga
• Breaks: Slam and Style
• Beauty in Structure: A How-To of Form Poetry
• How-to: The Sestina
• Two Forms, One Theme Contest
• Poetry Form Week Roundup

• The Literature Form Rules were updated
• If you doubted before stahp. neurotype-on-discord will not let you get off easy with questions like "how did you learn to make a good voice?"and "Do you know your market?" It's important to know how you can make English work for you!
• Ever written something you were really proud of? Oilux started up that exact discussion!
• If you're the least bit interested in publishing it's clear that PinkyMcCoversong knows her stuff, so when she asks "Why do you think you're special?" you know that she'll make sure you know your stuff as well.
• Some people revise older pieces, others take what they've learned and apply it to new works only. Betterthanempty reminds us that we all edit a bit differently: Do you revisit old pieces?
• TristanCody starts up a conversation about "Workshops, Circles and How To Books" and if "you even use em'?"

April

• Literature News - April 2013

• Literature DD Roundup April 2013

• Monthly Literature Critique Thread: April

    April is quite possibly one of the busiest months of the year with NaPoWriMo, Camp NaNoWrimo, and ScriptFrenzy! NaPoWriMo is National Poetry Writing Month, the challenge to write a poem every day in April, Camp NaNoWriMo is like National Novel Writing Month, but with less strict word count goals, last but not least ScriptFrenzy tackles the challenge of writing a 100 page script/multiple scripts [it isn't as easy as you would think]. It also paves the way for a literature-filled summer or winter!

• April Update for Literature Gallery Restructure and the CRLiterature teams updates the guidelines on how to submit your news to CRLiterature!
• Prose enthusiasts and experts wanted! This was a call for people to write articles/participate in the May Story Planning Week.
• Introducing Madefire Motion Books to deviantART which is basically a "Web Reader on deviantART in a new category on our front-page called "Motion Books”" that allows for the viewing and submitting to the category. Madefire and Literature: Interview with Liam Sharp a Writer, Comic Book Artist, Publisher and Madefire co-founder to help find out a "bit more about what Madefire can do for writers".
• Reprobates Debate: Mass Market as neurotype-on-discord says in the article "how do you apply this to writing? Well, words certainly can be art. So is it art because it's printed and bound? Written by a writer? Does commercialization diminish its worth as art? She also calmly advises you to Stop Using Subscript in Your Lit
• Artists on Writers - No. 1 is a great feature reminding us that artists and writers can and do draw inspiration from each other.
• Nichrysalis posts another The E-Literature Catalog - Science Fiction
• To give those participating in NaPo, SriptFrenzy, and Camp NaNo a bit of a pep talk ShadowedAcolyte posted this journal: April is More Than Half Over!

• The Two Forms, One Theme: Results have been put out. This was the contests results for the March PE week
• Send a haiku to Mars! shared by Vigilo this was a fabulous little contest about...sending a Haiku to Mars on the MAVEN
• April also saw the Resurrection of the Exquisite Corpse, a poem composed by multiple people each one writing only one line. This always turns out an incredible poem.

• "There certainly is a lot of free verse on dA." AfterTheNonSequitur is right, it's probably one of the most popular categories. So a friendly discussion In Defense (or not) of Free Verse arose.
• neurotype-on-discord is a Cakegoddess in the Lit Forum. I mean look at this: When do you stop revising?, one about Using critique, and then
  
• Editing vs proofreading. They aren't the same thing.

May

• Literature News - May 2013

• Literature DD Roundup- May 2013

• Monthly Literature Critique Thread: May

• Who be pimping now? Tobaeus be totally pimping twice as much.
• In an effort to keep getting feedback from the community CRLiterature wanted deviant's thoughts On the Subject of Literature Daily Deviations... Nichrysalis also chimed in and posted this poll: "Are you more likely to read a literature DD that is poetry or prose?"
• Who Cares About the Literature Community? If you're reading this I think you do.
• Writing Resources for Noobs (...and not-so-noobs) and Tips for Young Writers...with some help from Buffy are both journal from PinkyMcCoversong aimed to make sure writers get the resources and help they want/need.
• Flash Fiction Month is in July but FFM Sign-Ups start in late May!
• Kindle Worlds was launched in May [I believe] and SadisticIceCream posted this helpful article on What You Should Know About Kindle Worlds
• Slam Poetry might not be everyone's thing, but Nichrysalis set out to change that with A Crash Course in Slam Poetry
• An A-Z of Poetry Forms was updated in May
• How to get more views on your Literature covered the ever present question "How do I get more views?" This article garnered a lot of attention, debate and discussion.

• The Results of the Awakening/Asleepening Contest were announced in May.
• cahoodaloodaling is an online publication and started a In Cahoots Contest [Outside dA Contest] to celebrate their first year.
• Cake or Pie? The war continued with the Dialectical Dessertism: The Contest
• 'My Own Worst Enemy' Contest asked participants to search "within themselves for a quality that is both blessing and curse."
• Results and Round 2 Signup of Exquisite Corpse

• PE: Story Planning Week!
• The Problem With Character Sheets
• Worldbuilding: Environments and Social Structures
• PE Story Planning: Utter Foolishness
• How to Plot Like a Grim
• Please Pants Responsibly (Paper Notebooks FTW)
• The Name Game
• Record Cards, Astronavigation and You
• How to Stop Planning and Use What You've Got
• Short vs. Long - Contest
• PE: Story Planning Round-up

• Poetry Cliches, they're something every poet should be aware of and doodlerTM listed a few she isn't fond of.
• May saw the start of two great forum games Five Sentence Stories and Random deviation [the latter is not locked yet].
• The Future of Books lit up a great discourse on books and libraries.
• It's a topic that comes up frequently amongst writers "Which author influenced you the most?", but that doesn't make it any less relevant or interesting to see how authors influence people.
• As stated int he post a good portion of the "threads here, not to mention author interviews, are about someone's own process". Which leads to the question "Why do you care what other writers are doing?"

June

• Literature News - June 2013

• Literature DD Roundup- June 2013

• Monthly Literature Critique Thread: June

• Did you know CRLiterature has a fantastic Writing Opportunities (Publishing) journal? You didn't? Did you know it was just updated in June too? Now you do!

• SadisticIceCream revamps her Publishing Resources List, this is a treasure trove of publishing resources you should look at it.

• JZlobo, the first Fan Fiction CV had finished his term as CV during June.

• With the last Project Educate over in May projecteducate put out a poll: "For future Project Educate weeks, what would you like to see?" Oh, that means us literature lovers!

• Odyssey II: That Which Can Be Imagined an update on the Odyssey II Project.

• Nichrysalis and techgnotic each posted continuations on their articles The E-Literature Catalog - Crime + Mystery I and Artists on Writers - No. 2, Charles Bukowski respectively

• With July fast approaching ShadowedAcolyte posted another article reminding us that Flash Fiction Month Is Near!

• To round out the news of June LadyLincoln posted a very fitting poll: During My Time as a Member of the DeviantART [Lit] Community, I Learned…

• Dialogue Workshop hosted by raspil This needs no explanation, go forth, read and apply your new knowledge.
• June saw the birth of a great idea from imaginative-lioness a Literature Roadtrip. Where she would take 5 days and spend them lurking and scouring deviants profiles and galleries to comment, critique, favorite and feature some of the pieces she found.
• Wrtitten in the Stars - A Prose 'N Poetry Contest

• Planning vs pantsing, or planning something out versus making things up as you go along.
• Obligatory reading like a writer post: What was the last book you read?
• June is over, but The Ancient Egyptian Deity Short Story Challenge in the forums is still open if you want to pop on over and get your diety to write about!
• Creative Writing versus Nonfiction Writing a nice little conversation about which one deviants prefer.

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Think that is it? You would be so wrong. So. So. So wrong. There was tons going on in the first half of the year and if I even tried to list more [features, groups, other things, more other things] sta.sh would probably put out a hit on me dislike me strongly. I encourage you to get out there and participate, the literature community is fantastically busy and there really is a little niche for everyone, you just have to find it.

^{Also, you can totally thank my boyfriend for me adding commentary. I asked him [without telling him what I was doing] if I should add commentary or not. I will not ask him again.}

Now what about the other half of the year? Feel free to send me things you find throughout July and into December or pictures/gifs of someone doing some sort of derpy face so I can scrawl beneath it "LIT me explain u a thing" because guess what...