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Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Reasons to Love dA's Lit Community: Part 1
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
This week’s group spotlight is #Ordinary-Writing! #LITplease's Community Portal
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Literature Links
Operation WFP: Start This ends TODAY. December 23rd at 11:59PM EST (USA).- The Literature Community Experiment
- The Saturnalia Chat Event will be held on December 28th
- `raspil is wonderful. Check out some of her forum discussion topics: what are you best at with your writing?, on the subject of Daily Deviations, what are you currently researching for your writing?, and on the subject of "write what you know".
- Forum Discussion: Why so cliche-obsessed?
- Forum Discussion: regarding critiques in writing here at dA
- Why You Should Keep Writing
- Some Thoughts on Practices for Author Websites
- Weekly Feature! Spoken Word
- Reprobates Debate: Free Writing
- Site Update: Literature Thumbs, Sta.sh Submit
- Less than 4 days ‘till Critmas launches for 2012!
- *TarienCole on hooks, audience and BetaReaders
- #Self-Publishing's journal: Self Publishing Freebie
- Forum Discussion: Guilty Pleasures
- FF-02: What to write about literature deviations
- ITU Feature 8 - December 18th, 2012
- `OfOneSoul is looking to make her group, #Authors-Roundtable, into a supergroup.
- =TwilightPoetess is looking for Poetry DLD suggestions.
- The 4th Annual Poetry Screams Prompt Contest Winners have been announced.
- #SixWordStories Feature: December 3rd - 17th
- Louder Than a Bomb 2013 - call for support!
- Our Lit CV's "want your Literature DD suggestions! Bonus is seasonal/festive!"
Group News
- #Authors-Roundtable is a new group and even though it is Under
Construction would like your support. - The Colors Contest winners have been revealed.
- The group, #The-Writers-Study, announces that they will be going under construction to make the group more active again.
- Still Here, Still Writing, Still Dreaming
- #EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 52! intricately-ordinary, OfOneSoul and PrideofPanem
- #poetry-book's poll: " Who would be willing to watch a Join.me session of the judges judging for Round 3?"
- An update from #Unconventional-Story on expired submissions.
- #Authors-Club promotes some contests and giveaways
- The founder of #Poem-forthe-poemless posts an apology and announces they are stepping down. The new founder gives a hello.
- Good News from ~PoetryToTheMasses regarding an administrative error.
- #Teenage-Writers posts and update on their secret santa event.
- An update from #Poetrys-Renaissance regarding the group's future.
- A weekly update from #Writers-Extrodinaire. The group also posted a poll: " Writers Extraordinaire should have a...? ".
- A hello and a bit of a challenge from #Writingstream.
- Lots to Catch up On, #Open-Mic-Poetry's newest blog as well as an update on decisions regarding their contest and supergroup status.
- #TheScribblists posts a very important update, addresses the poetry overflow in the gallery folder and has opened up new folders to fix the issue.
- #PoeticalCondition's Member of the Month: *ampersandheart
- New Year's wishes?, #15-Minutes-of-Fame's discussion journal.
- The group, #OnlyPoetry has some updates concerning folders.
- December Updates from #Self-Publishing.
- "Do you have somewhere you prefer to write?" asks #EliteLiterature.
- #TheWritingHaven checks in and updates they have new folders.
- #Love-Literature posts the results of their contest.
- A bit of new information from #writingmadefun and an update that their contest is now over.
- #theWrittenRevolution posts their Affiliates Feature (December)
- A reminder then an update from #Short-Stories about their contest.
- Greetings from #Your-Soul-In-Writing
Literature Links [in other languages!]
- There will be a little delay in announcing the winners of #ArteScritta’s contest. [Italian]
- #PoesiaPT reminds members they are a Portuguese poetry only group [Portuguese]
- Voting for #LetraHispana’s contest winners ends December 24th. [Spanish]
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This Week's Group Spotlight
#Ordinary-Writing is a group dedicated to all things prose! The group holds various contests and events throughout the year and with over 600 members there is a vast variety of work to find. They're also currently wrapping up their Christmas/Winter Contest. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins.
Quick Links:
Looking for more groups?
- `leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
- #Realm-of-Fantasy's list of literature groups[Fantasy, Sci-fi and General]
- My journal has a small list that I've compiled.
- League of Lit Groups: Vol. 4
If you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!
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Inspiration (Workshops, Prompts and Challenges)
Weekly:
- Prompt #35: "Ruins" is #Heart-of-Poetry's newest weekly prompt. [December 24th]
- #Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt is a Music P{rompt [December 23rd]
- "Confession" is #Writing-to-Live's weekly writing prompt. [December 10th]
- #lit-lash's Week 3.3 [December 9th]
- #WritingForEveryone's Weekly Prompt [December 4th]
- #Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Post-Apocalypse
- Weekly Spontaneity: 39 from #SixWordStories
- "The holidays" is #Poem-forthe-poemless' first weekly prompt.
- Theme Of The Week #3 from #KnightsOfRomance.
Bi-Weekly:
- ~PoetryWeek's bi-weekly prompt is "Serendipity". [January 16th]
- #theWrittenRevolution's Prompt: November 26, 2012[December 10th]
- ITU Prompt 2 - December 13, 2012 from #InspireTheUninspired.
Monthly:
- #Letters-To-Myself's December Prompt: Letters to Santa's Workshop. [January 1st]
- #SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts [December 31st]
- #Wordsmiths-Guild's Prompt for December [December 29th]
- Prose and Poetry Monthly Prompts from #lacoterie.
- #Sacred-Literature's Monthly Prompt
Workshops and Challenges:
- De-Cliche Your Romance: Part 2 is #Writers-Workshop's current workshop.
- Challenge #6: Winter Woes
- FFF 11: Cinquain Refrain Challenge
Other:
- Critique Challenge from #SuperWritersHelp [December 8th and December 30th]
- Cahoodaloodaling is accepting submissions for their new Prompt #6 – Fragments [December 31st]
- The Bi-Monthly prompt for #PoeticalCondition is "Technology"
- #Writers-Of-Our-Time's prompt: "Until the very end."
- #TheCritiquables is hosting a Writing Project
- #Love-Literature's weekly and monthly prompts.
Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:
- #Teenage-Writers’ Group Story
- #Shelf-of-Friends' Collaboration Project
- A 50 Theme Challenge from #Authors-Academy
- 100 Word Challenge hosted by #JustKeepWriting
- A List of Prompts from #FeatheredWords.
- #full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
- #LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
- Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
- Poetic Journey Project hosted by #Masters-of-Poetry.
- #Writers-Universal's Publicity Project
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Lit Contests Galore!
These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.
New Contests:
Contests Ending This Week:
- "Broken" [ 1,500 word limit for Prose] (December 23rd)
- Feedback Frenzy 02 - Comment Contest (December 16th to December 23rd)
- A Winter Only World [Poetry only; 50 line limit; please see link for details] (December 24th)
- The War Story Contest [8,500 word limit for prose; please see link for details] (December 24th)
- Secret Santa Contest [6,000 word maximum; please see link for details] (December 25th)
- The Secret Santa Christmas-themed Writing Contest [Please see link for details] (December 25th)
- "Festive" [Poetry only] (December 25th)
- Saturnalia Contest [Satire; 250 words or less] (December 27th)
- ACG's Literature Deleted Scene NBC Contest [1,000 word limit; please see link for details] (December 29th)
- Battle of the Dragons [Prose only; 2 chapter limit with a 3,000 word limit per chapter; please see link for details] (December 30th)
- #Writers4Life Contest [3,000 word limit] (December 30th)
- Celestial Memories (December 31st)
- Holiday Prompt Contest [1,500 word limit; please see link for details] (December 31st)
- 2013 and a Time Machine [5-45 lines for poetry; 200-1,200 word limit for prose; please see link for details] (December 31st)
Contest Extensions:
None.
- There is also a group dedicated to listing Literature contests around dA, #DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
- #Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.
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Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXVII
- Demonstrably Deviant: Issue XI
- A Symbol View with `YouInventedMe
- Fantastic Feature Tuesday #23
- Friday Night Features LXXVIII
- Fabulous Friday Feature 11: Alice in Wonderland
- Saturday Morning Features - 7
- The Saturday Spotlight for December 22nd, 2012
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 94
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XIII
- The Favorites Project #180, #181, #182
- Be A Critic Volume 4
- Literary Compass - Vol. 2
- Writing Without Publishing: Exillior speaks
General Resources
- #theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
- LadyLincoln's Journal
- lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to `apocathary’s journal]
- julietcaesar's List of Useful Writing Blogs
- WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
- #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
- #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links
- Tips for the Messy Writer
Writing Resources [General]
- Writing Resources for Everyone
- Jump Start Your Story
- Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
- LaMonaca's Writing Guides
- #LitResources' folder for Literature Tutorials
- How to Write Fan Fiction - P1
- How to Write Euphonically
- OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
- English 101 Index: A Grammar Series
Prose Resources
- ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
- Ten Tips for Writing
- 10 Tips for Novel Writers
- Back-To-Basics Screenwriting With Snappy
- Organizing Your Fantasy/Sci-Fi Novel
- Style vs. Voice - A Guide
- Grammar and Your Story
- Three Act Structure
Poetry Resources
- The Hard Work of Poetry
- Tips For Editing Poetry
- Haiku Theory Part 1
- Haiku and Eastern Poetry
- Poetic Forms
- Poetry Self-Edit Quick Start Guide and Checklist
- "Poeticks: On Imagery" 1 of 3, "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3, and "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3
Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
- Search Engines for Serious Writers
- The NonVerbal Thesaurus
- How to Write Without Editing
- 9 Editing Tips You (Possibly) Haven't Heard Before
- Writing Useful Critiques
- Prose Critique Basics
- Beta Reading Tutorial
- A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
- Murdering Mary Sue
- Extrasuperfabulous
- Characterization and Names
- Character Development: From Beginning to End
- Describing your Characters
- Rehab for Roleplayers
Publishing Resources
- SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
- leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
- Resources for Aspiring Authors
- On-Writing - Getting Published
- Getting Published the Hard Way
- Tips on Self Publishing
- Writing Exercise-Book Proposal
- How to Get a Literary Agent
- What Makes A Good Editor?
- `apocathary has created a customised calendar for submissions to Australian journals and competitions. [It can still be useful for others as some listed accept international submissions too.]
- Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: #DivertirPublishing
- An Idiot's Guide to Publishing
- An Idiot's Guide to Book Publishing
E-Zines/Magazines
- Harmless [Magazine]
- Steampunk Tales
- G.W. Review
- Fuselit
- The Missing Slate
- Second Look
- Verandah Literary Journal
- Machine of Death
- Cram Magazine
- Voiceworks
- Shimmer
- dotdotdash Magazine
- Alliterati Magazine
- Linear Literary Journal
- Grawlix Poetry E-Zine
- choodaloodaling
- Artsmiths
- Chautauqua Literary Journal
- Pocket Thoughts
- Quantum Fairy Tales
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Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- #TheseWordsaremyheart is looking for a founder to take over the group.
- #PowerfulWriting would like a few more contributors.
- Contributors are needed at #TheScribblists.
- General Administrators are wanted at #Poetry-is-AWESOME.
- The group, #Your-Soul-In-Writing is looking for someone to take over the group.
- #DelveMag issues a Call for Participation in the form of contributors.
- #SuperWritersHelp is in need of prose and poetry critics.
- Two Match Makers are #Beta-Readers' current open positions.
- #Calling-All-Poetry would like 2 general admins.
- Two admin positions are available at #TheCritiquables
- #Kakikotoba would like a few contributors to help out with the group.
- 1 Feature Writer and 2 Recruiters are the current open positions at #Love-Literature.
- #SimplyGoodPoetry is looking for new Contributors
- 2 Critiquers, 2 Contributors, and 1 Advertiser are the current open positions at #Penpa.
- 2 Community Liaisons and 2 Critics are needed over at #LITplease.
- #GrammarNaziCritiques is looking for some critics.
- The group, #FlashFictionLives is looking for some active members to help run the group.
- #LOVE-Original-LIT is in need of Prose, Poetry, Critique admins, as well as a judge for group hosted contests.
- Voters and weekly and monthly bloggers are wanted at #Letters-To-Myself
- One admin position is available at #TeenagedLiterature.
- #RomanceforEveryone would like Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Manager, Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Helpers, Resources Director, Critique Approvers, and some General Administrators.
- 2 Contributor positions are open at #InspireTheUninspired
- #FictionWriters101 needs a co-founder and contributors.
- 2 assistants, prize commissioners, 1 News crew, and critics are #APictureToA1000Words’s current admin vacancies.
- General admins are needed to help with submission at #Masters-of-Poetry.
- Critics/Commenters are wanted in the group, #Live-Love-Write.
- A co-founder and general admins are needed to help run #lit-lash.
- A Sci-Fi Short Story Folder Manager is needed at #FantasyAuthorsGuild.
- #WritingForEveryone still needs a few contributors.
- The group, #Written-Imagination, is looking for a variety of staff members.
- #Soul-Poets is looking to fill their contributor positions.
- #YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 2 Character Bio Moderators, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.
- ~WeeklyLitContests would like 1 more contributor.
- #Wannabe-Novelists is looking for some new admins.
- #Adopt-A-Writer is looking mentors and mentees.
- Two admin positions need to be filled at #WriterSecretSanta.
- #EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
- #Poetry-Screams wants some administrators.
- #WA-writersblock is in need of a new founder.
- New admins are wanted at #Unconventional-Story.
- 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at #lacoterie.
- Members to host workshops and Contributors are needed at #Writers-Workshop
- Critics, admins, and people "interested in helping run and set up events and projects" are needed at #devLIT.
- 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at #LitResources.
- Open Positions over at #SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.
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Literature Community Relations
`thorns - thorn's DD Suggestion Guidelines
^Beccalicious - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
^neurotype - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
^NicSwaner - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines
^JZLobo - JZLobo's DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - November / December 2012
November's Literature Daily Deviations
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: December
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Contacting Me
Want your group to be spotlighted; your Literature project? See something you don't like? That you like? Want changed or removed? Have a suggestion for the next issue? Then please send me a note! The Literature Community is huge, so I'm always going to miss something or make a mistake, don't be afraid to let me know. ♥Hugs, love and thanks to:
and 
, my favoritest #LITplease Community Liaisons.
and 
for putting up with me and letting me run #LITplease’s Community Portal.
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Of course! I always love reading your forum posts, even if I don't reply. You come up with the best discussion topics and always get right to the point of things.