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Welcome to the one-hundred thirty-third issue of Love dA Lit! 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 or project for two weeks. 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.
LITplease's Community Portal
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Group News
Literature Links [in other languages!]
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Looking for more groups?
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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Weekly:
Bi-Weekly:
Monthly:
Other:
Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:
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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:
Contest Extensions:
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Regular Lit Articles
General Resources
Recently Added Resources
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BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Nichrysalis - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - June 2013
Literature DD Roundup May 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: June
FAQ #61: What is a Daily Deviation?
FAQ #18: Who selects the Daily Deviation and how is it chosen?
FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?
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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.
for letting me run LITplease’s Community Portal.
who let me know about their friend's anthology.
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LITplease's Community Portal
A Smattering of Lit News
Navigation
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
- 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
Story Planning
Literature Links
- PE: Story Planning Round-up
- Points for your lit contributions to anthology
- June Chat Tour on Saturday, June 29th at 3PM EST.
- The Ladies of Lit: Listing of Lovelies
- For future Project Educate weeks, what would you like to see? If you want more literature related weeks, chime in!
- Showcase | 010
- During My Time as a Member of the DeviantART [Lit] Community, I Learned…
- A quick announcement regarding [Fan Fiction] DD Suggestions
- "Who do you write like?"
- Undiscovered Weekly: Literature
- EvelynTaliette asks "How do you define your writing?"
- "How "honest" is your writing? Are you able to truly pour yourself into it or do you hold back?" asks dreamsinstatic.
- Forum Discussion: Writing out numbers and time.
- betwixtthepages's dA Roadtrip with ~flightlessheron
- Forums Discussion: Who cares about music?
- Confessions of Published Teen Authors!
- WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up
- #Poets-and-Warriors's Weekly Feature- Prose
- imaginative-lioness' Literature Roadtrip Timetable Day 001, 002, 003, 004, and 005.
- neurotype-on-discord is looking for themed DD suggestions again. (by note only )
- Farewell to JZlobo, the first Fan Fiction CV. Give him your thanks!
Group News
- Send Your Literature This Way says LiteratureRoadtrip.
- Passing the Baton, Adopt-A-Writer has a new founder.
- More from Jade and Books, Books, Books from TheShelfLife.
- Unscrambler - Marine Life from Bright-Poets
- Santa Claus is vacationing in the Bahamas, an update from Short-Stories and a distraction as well.
- The Fount of Knowledge and Wisdom and Synergy: Week Four are Live-Love-Write's newest journals.
- EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 76! ~Alec4U, `LiliWrites and ~Beast-Mode-On
- Winners for the short story contest from writers-central.
- JustKeepWriting is back up and running.
- Progress and Things from FreePoetSociety.
- House-of-Playwrights's WPs(Weekly-ish Prompts) are Coming Back
- From NaNoWriM0: Camp NaNoWriMo! Round Two!
- Word Wars coming soon to Prompt-Bunnies
- A new poll and some important rule changes from TheWritersWareHouse.
- Apocalypse-writing has updates their Advertisements.
- Some news from PoetryVSTheWorld
- Glory Be! Day 170 - or somewhere around there C: and Weekend Music - The Summer
- OutstandingWriters is still alive.
- Rollcall from DAWritersUnite.
- Love-Literature's Interview With An Admin
- SeductiveInkWell is Addressing the Issues
- Riddle Mania from Authors-Club.
- Writers of the Revolution: June 18, 2013
- Which deviation did you feel exemplified the prompt "One More D_y" best? Please read the rules before voting. TheWritersMeow wants member's to vote. Don't forget to look at their contest winners announcement journal.
- FantasyAuthorsGuild's foudner will be away, but it shouldn't affect gallery submissions.
- What is happening with our affiliates? FreeVersePoetry gives the rundown.
- Writers-and-Editors updates their journal: Need a critic? Want to be one?
- Memos from the Corner, Story-Corner that is.
- Doubts from Writers-At-Heart.
- Interested in more Contests?, AuthorsEscape lists their affiliates contests.
- WritersInk asks " If you could go on holiday anywhere in the world, which continent would you end up on (or closest to)?". The group also has a folder update.
- Motivation Monday 2, Terrible Tuesday 2, WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday 2, Thoughtful Thursday 2, Famous Advice Friday 2, Cinema Saturday 2, and Sit-in Sunday 2 all from Persistent-Practice!
Literature Links [in other languages!]
- INTERVIEW XVI DELICE 1941 and another update concerning the contest from NotreForteresseBrule. [French]
- More and more things from LetraHispana for their 3rd Anniversary. [Spanish]
- ArteScritta is hosting a new contest. [Italian]
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Looking for more groups?
- leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
- FanaticalPublishing lists a wide variety of literature groups.
- 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. 5
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:
- TheWritersWareHouse's weekly prompt, Bite the Bullet. [June 20th]
- "The Descent" from Apocalypse-writing. [June 22nd]
- We-The-Writers's weekly topic is "Death" [June 24th]
- "My Silent Companion", the latest weekly prompt from TheWritersMeow [June 24th]
- Unseen-Writers's Theme of the Week: Shoes [June 24th]
- LitGuildUK's new Prompt: Through the Glass [June 25th]
- There is a new Writing Prompt from Live-Love-Write. [June 26th]
- Prompt 3 from skinnywords [June 29th]
- Prompt #13: Accomplishments/Achievements from TheSpokenTruth [June 29th]
- June 17th Prompt from Prompt-Bunnies. [June 29th]
- "Moving" is the weekly prompt from Love-Literature.
- Souljournalist Challenge |Week 5| Place
- Weekly Spontaneity: 63 from SixWordStories
- "When I said *......* I didn't mean..." is Writers-Extrodinaire's FFM weekly prompt.
- Weekly Prompt Writing Challenge: Element 1 from The-Writers-Study
- There are two prompts for Poem-forthe-poemless' weekly prompts.
Bi-Weekly:
- Holiday is Wordspill-Central's third prompt. [June 16th]
- FotoFriday: 1993 [June 28th]
- "The Prompt Pool" from PoeticalCondition. [July 1st]
- SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts [July 3rd]
- theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly Prompt: June 24th, 2013 [July 8th]
- TheMarmaladeTree's Week Eight prompts.
Monthly:
- My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's Critique Challenge [June 23rd and June 30th]
- INSPIRE FEATURE: I hosted by DeviantLITERATURE [June 25th]
- ScreamPrompt #36, June 2013 [June 30th]
- Literary-Limits's June prompt is up. [June 30th]
- ThePoetryofDA's Prompt: Nightmares [June]
- Jubilant Japanese June (JJJ) is ProjectDFC's monthly challenge. [July 1st]
- Prompt 14: The Beginning [July 10th]
- July Challenge: Day in the life of... [July 26th]
- Love-Literature's Monthly Prompt is "Friends"
- Feedback Pack--June Sign Up
Other:
- DALiteratureContests's Prompt List Last Updated: June 15th [Various Group's Prompts Listed]
- Versicolor Project: Saffron [June 24th]
- Teenage-Writers's Collaboration Project: Signups are open until [June 30th]
- Dialogue Workshop [July 1st]
- An Interpretative Writing Challenge from LivingLiterature [July]
- Prompts #1 from Bright-Poets.
- The Ancient Egyptian Deity Short Story Challenge
- Mini Critique Challenge hosted by Learn2Crit-Lit
- "Today, I love you. Tomorrow? No." is the prompt from Ecrit-de-la-poesie
- "Tell me a story" from We-Poets
- Dialogue Workshop: Part 2 hosted by Writers-Workshop
Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:
- Writing prompts from dA-Literature
- A 50 Theme Challenge from Authors-Academy
- A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
- full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
- 100 Poem Topics from Wordsmiths-Guild
- LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
- Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
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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:
- Honesty (July 1st)
- Contest - Poetry (July 1st)
- "Countries" (July 6th)
- Poetry Contest #3 [Poetry only; 4 line minimum; 28 line maximum] (July 8th)
- #poetic-clan's Contest #3 (July 31st)
- "Contest I" (Deadline Unspecified)
Contests Ending This Week:
- Competition 3:: Sweet Things (June 23rd)
- #ThePoetryofDA's Contest [Poetry only] (June 24th)
- #poetry-book's Contest: June 2013 [Poetry only; 2 stanza minimum] (June 26th)
- Short vs. Long - Contest [Please see link for details] (June 26th)
- #writers-central's Poetry Contest [30 word minimum; 100 word maximum] (June 27th)
- June Flash Fiction Exercise [Prose only; 550 to 560 word limit] (June 28th)
- #Heart-of-Poetry's Contest [10 word maximum; please see link for details] (June 30th)
- Awakening Writing Contest - Finish Shadow Prey [Please see link for details; prose only; 1,000 word minimum; 8,000 word maximum] (June 30th)
- Worldbuilding Contest [3,000 word minimum] (June 30th)
- My Own Worst Enemy [8,000 word maximum (June 30th)
- "It broke." [Prose only; 800 word minimum; 1,000 word maximum] (June 30th)
- 7 Deadly Sins (June 30th)
Contest Extensions:
- None this week!
- The June and No Deadlines contest journals from DALiteratureContests has been updated!
- Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.
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Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- Be A Critic Volume 16
- Fantastic Feature Tuesday #47
- Wonderful Wednesday Features 007
- Friday Night Features CIV
- Fabulous Friday Feature 32
- The Saturday Spotlight for June 22nd, 2013
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 119
- Sundae Treat- Sammur-amat's Sunday Feature 35
- A Call to Conversation (19)--~MrSarcasticBeast
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXXII
- Literary Compass - Vol. 10
- dAuthors Volume II : Blood and Ashes
- The Indie Pen Dance - Issue 4 - Robert Loyd Watson
- Lit Daily Pick Volume 5: May 2013
- Let's Talk Writing: Issue 17
- Spoken Heard - SilverInkblot
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XVI
- Group Therapy : Literature
- The E-Literature Catalog - Crime + Mystery I
- DLD to DD March 12th, 2013
General Resources
- theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
- LadyLincoln's Journal
- SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
- Happenings in the Literature Community
- The Monday News: Edition 5
- #Apocalypse-writing's ApocaLit Fridays: Issue 6
- #FreeVersePoetry's Community Updates
- Literature News: Issue #3
- 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 Tips, Finding A Muse
Recently Added Resources
Looking for the rest of the resources? Go to the Community portal, below!
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Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- Two Co-Founders and Three to Five Contributors are wanted at SeductiveInkWell.
- TheSpokenTruth could use a few admins.
- Contibutor and Co-Founder positions are open at Sacred-Literature.
- 5 Contributors are needed over at LivingLiterature.
- Glory-Be-Project would like some new contributors.
- Authors-Club would like to hire some admins.
- Critics, "At the moment poetry specifically, but prose is always welcome as that folder fills fast. If you can do both you're awesome.Requirements: At least one critique per month. May submit own work for critique by other critics. Admittance to the team subject to a short aptitude test. (I poke you with a stick and make you sing "I'm a Barbie Girl") - GrammarNaziCritiques
- Poetry and prose critics are needed at SuperWritersHelp
- 2 Contributors are wanted in We-The-Writers.
- Writingstream needs general administrators.
- PoeticalCondition is looking to hire another Staff Blogger.
- Writers--club is looking for critics.
- A Contest Creator & Prizes Provider is needed at the group Written-Imagination
- Story Scouts and general helpers are LiteraryCompass's current open positions.
- FantasyLiterature would like another admin to help with upcoming projects.
- RomanceforEveryone would like Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Manager, Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Helpers, Resources Director, Critique Approvers, and some General Administrators.
- Write2liveCancerFree would like some help.
- FreeVersePoetry is hiring two critics.
- A founder is needed to take over FlashFictionLives or it will be shut down.
- Poem-forthe-poemless is looking for someone to critique their weekly prompt submissions.
- Various gallery moderators and some Co-Founders are need at Inspiring-Words.
- 2 Poetry, 2 Prose and 1 Foreign Language Admin are the open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
- Creative-Writers is looking for an admin to help run the group.
- A Contributor to help out the group, Literary-Perceptions is wanted.
- JustKeepWriting is looking to find someone to post their Weekly Selections feature.
- Some admins are wanted to help with the group, WritersOfTheWorld
- Tutorial and motivational article writes are wanted at writeaway.
- A founder is needed at the group, BleedingHeartsPoetry.
- Two Match Makers are Beta-Readers' current open positions.
- 1 Community Liaison and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
- LOVE-Original-LIT is in need of Prose and Poetry admins as well as a judge for group hosted contests.
- 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
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Literature Community Relations
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Nichrysalis - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - June 2013
Literature DD Roundup May 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: June
FAQ #61: What is a Daily Deviation?
FAQ #18: Who selects the Daily Deviation and how is it chosen?
FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?
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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.
for letting me run LITplease’s Community Portal.
who let me know about their friend's anthology.
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Renewal
It has been a rough few years for myself and my family. It is strange to think that for once in my adult life that I am legitimately doing well, not pretending or being close but not quite there. Things are almost infinitely better than 6 months ago and, if I'm honest, it feels like that was years ago. DA has always been a home and as I've slowly gotten better I find myself missing it and all the friends I've made more and more. I know I do not elaborate much on my personal life, but perhaps now that so much is behind me I can allow myself to discuss it more. In truth, I'm not even sure where to begin, but updating on what happened in the la
Birthdays and Change
I wanted to thank all the lovelies who wished me happy birthday recently, I read all your comments and it made me extremely happy. ♥ It was nice to hop on and see that I was thought of, I truly appreciate it beyond words.
However, I know have been very absent for a few months now. Things have not be going well in my life for the majority of the year (and if I'm honest the last 2 years) now and I have had to put DA on the back burner. I still find myself coming to the site, reading comments/replies, looking at deviations, but currently I am overwhelmed by everything that I can't bring myself to do much else.
I find myself now on the pr
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Navigation
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Literature Contests | Resources
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Welcome to the two-hundred ninety-first issue of Love DA Lit! Every Sunday this article aims to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, workshops, and contests. 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.
Navigation
Literature Links | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources
Literature Community Relations | Contact Me
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