Love dA Lit: Issue 145

Welcome to the one-hundred forty-fifth 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.

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• Introducing Poetry Basics (Your help needed!)
• Forum Discussion: Is Slenderman Folklore for the Internet Age?
• All Entries Welcome: The 'Epic' Author-Off
• Nichrysalis's polls: "Have you ever used your writing talents to write something erotic?" and "When you read a great piece of writing/view an astounding work of art that is accompanied by the author/artist's hateful, insulting, or negative remarks..."
• Fan-Fiction-Tastic News #2
• Undiscovered Weekly: Literature
• Forum Discussion: Good friend, bad writer...
• FrankenTales WINNERS!
• doughboycafe's poll: "A lot of current English idioms come from the first world war. Tell me some that you know!"
• PoeticalCondition's Monthly Feature of Works!
• Forum Discussion: Favorite Poems
• Your NaNoWriMo Support!
• Random Plot Twists: Hit me with whatever you've got!
• Forum Discussion: Is it tacky
• " What the heck is the accepted term for Victorianesque high fantasy?" asks QuiEstInLiteris.
• DLD Suggestion Guidelines from LionesseRampant.
• Forum Discussion: Do you think it matters if...
• AzizrianDaoXrak is looking for some poetry forms.
• neurotype-on-discord is going to be out and about. Please send in the DD suggestions.

Group News

• Daily Literature Deviations Color Contest Results
• SeductiveInkWell's Bi-Monthly Winner and Bi-Weekly Winners
• Today the White Space Loses, is NaNoWriM0's NaNo journal.
• Glory-Be-Project's newest journal: "Glory Be! It's Friday"
• Happy Beginning of NANO +A few other announcements from Writers4Life.
• ScreamPrompts says to go do nanowrimo instead and prompts will resume in December.
• A hello from Always-Poetry.
• Another NaNoWriMo journal from knownames this time.
• And so it begins... is NaNoWriMo-MLP's latest journal.
• Word-Smiths' Members of the Month
• LOVE-Original-LIT's halloween contest has ended.
• A quick announcement from InspireTheUninspired.
• LiteraryAbandon journals about NaNo: Twas the night before NaNo
• A Happy Halloween Horde and a Feature from Apocalypse-writing.
• The results of SPOTLIGHTWRITERS' contest have been announced.
• writingmadefun's contest is over and judging will take a few more days.
• I Am Definitely a Madman With a Box is Short-Stories' latest journal.
• An update from TheGapToothedMadness.
• poetry-book's Scratch That 2.0 Audition Round is closed and announces the judges.
• NaNoWriMo and Admin Search is Flying-Fingers's latest journal.
• News and Features from NotreForteresseBrule
• Two Reminders from HumbleWriters
• Where is everyone? asks FightToWrite.
• FictionWriters101 posts a NaNoWrimo - 2013 journal.
• Some Moooooore Updates from FreePoetSociety.
• November Affiliate and Community Updates from PoeticalCondition.
• A message from Live-Love-Write's founder.
• Going with the spooky theme LiteraryPublications puts out quite a few journals: Halloween Theme Week: Signing Up, Updated Info For Theme Week, Help Donate For Events, Update 0.2 - Nov's Important Updates 2013, and FAQ: Frequent Questions, Comments, & Concerns.
• Admin Favorites from WritersInk and they also posted a poll: " Now that we know what time most of you have free to join a Taboo game, we need to know which DAY - so as always, please respond with whichever day you'd be most likely to be free on. The popular time our last poll suggested was 20:00 to 00:00 GMT".
• Persistent-Practice doesn't disappoint: "Showcase Sunday 20, October 27, Motivation Monday 21, October 28, Twosome Tuesday 21, October 29, WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday, October 30, Thoughtful Thursday 21, October 31, and Famous Advice Friday 21, November 1.

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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. 6

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:

• House-of-Playwrights's Weekly-ish Prompt [October 27th]
• "Writing Prompts from Live-Love-Write. [November 9th]
• Weekly Spontaneity: 82 from SixWordStories
• Flash Fan Fiction Friday: "El Dia de los Muertos" is LiteraryFanFiction's prompt.
• Glory-Be-Project's Mid-Week Inspirations: Installment 6
• Theme of the Week: Spider from Unseen-Writers
• PoetryWithAVoice has a new weekly prompt.
• "Somewhere else" is Writers-Extrodinaire's newest prompt.
• Writing Challenge 001 - Week 003 from LitGuildUK
• Want a Flash Fiction Prompt? TheWritingHaven has one.

Bi-Weekly:

• The Prompt Pool [November 4th]
• #SixWordStories' Bi-Weekly Prompt [November 6th]
• theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly prompt for October 21st [November 6th]
• Versicolor Project [November 10th]
• Foto Friday: Full Moon from CRLiterature [November 14th]
• Apocalypse-writing's Prompt: Stream of Consciousness [November 16th]
• prompt 31 October 2013 - Halloween challenge from FlashFictionLives
• Prompt #3 and #4 from OurProse.

Monthly:

• A-challenge-to-write's October Challenge is "Space" [October 25th]
• formfindsfunction's latest prompt: FFF 12: form creation challenge [October 31st]
• LiteraryMovement's Activity Comments For Comments [October 31st]
• Letters to the end of a Season [November 15th]
• October is for Fan Fiction at Multhaiku
• skinnywords has their monthly prompt 8 posted.
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's November Challenge
• lacoterie's October Prompts
• WritersOfTheWorld's September Activity: Dialogue

Other:

• DALiteratureContests's Prompt List was Last Updated: 2 November 2013 19:30 EDT) [Various Group's Prompts Listed]
• Self-Love Activity from KnightsOfRomance [November 9th]
• "You are a leaf...", is Ecrit-de-la-poesie's prompt.
• Literature Critique Challenge
• OfSweetSerendipity's Prompts #8
• Write a paradelle. Just do it. Do it now.
• Writing-Commissions's Writing Challenge #3

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
• musical inspiration from theScienceofPoetry

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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:

• The All About You Haiku (November 16th)
• PVTW's Contest 11 (November 17th)
• Written-Life's Contest [Please see link for details] (November 18th)
• Lili's 26th Birthday Contest [100 line limit; 2,500 word maximum] (November 30th)
• 5-Day Prompt-Play Contest (December 13th)
• Holiday Traditions Contest [Poetry Only] (January 1st, 2014)

Contests Ending This Week:

• FreePoetSociety's October Competition [Poetry and Prose accepted] (November 4th)
• Of Myth and Legend - A Poetry and Prose Contest [40 lines maximum for Poetry; 1,000 word maximum for Prose] (November 5th)
• ChasingInk's Contest [Poetry Only] (November 5th)
• Opposite Contest (November 7th)
• 5th Annual Poetry Screams Prompt Contest [75 line maximum] (November 8th)
• Literary Publication's First Monthly TW Contest (November 10th)

Contest Extensions:

• dreamsinstatic has extended his contest deadline from November 1st to November 8th.

• The November, December, and January contest journals from DALiteratureContests have been updated!
• ezradeacon has compiled a nice spooky, Halloween Contest List!
• Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.

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Regular Lit Articles

• Fantastic Feature Tuesday #53
• Friday Night Features CXX
• Let's Talk Writing: Issue 21
• The Saturday Spotlight for October 26th, 2013
• Saturday Feature #12
• (13) handpicked: [happy] halloween!
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 137
• DLD to DD for October 29th, 2013
• A Call to Conversation (28)--~ithaswhatitisnt
• The Indie Pen Dance - Issue 7 - Tory Steller
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXXV
• Literary Compass - Vol. 11
• dAuthors Volume VI : The Chronicles of Loreithia
• 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XVI
• Lit. Daily Pick Volume 9: September 2013

General Resources

• theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
• LadyLincoln's Journal
• SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
• ApocaLit Fridays: Issue #15
• Happenings in the Literature Community
• LITany of Resources - Updated 12 October 2013
• 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/Updated Resources

• How to Hook a Reader
• Some helpful outside dA articles from raspil: Basic Plot Structure - The Five Plotting Moments That Matter and 3 Writing Rules that Can Derail Your Story
• A Guide to Writing Combat-Related Mental Illness

Looking for the rest of the resources? Go to the Community portal, below!

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• Flying-Fingers is looking for admins to help with submisisons and other things.
• PoeticalCondition is hiring a Prompt Blogger and Critics.
• Love-Literature would like some admins.
• Administrator Positions are Open at Prosepoetry-Elegance.
• theWrittenRevolution wants YOU to apply for an admin position.
• A call out for some new admins has been put out by Letters-To-Myself.
• Project Managed and Contest Manager are the open positions at SixWordStories.
• 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. - GrammarNaziCritiques
• We-Poets, is looking for more admins
• Want to help out at Poetry-Magnet? They're looking for contributors.
• Moderators are needed at Literature-Series.
• SPOTLIGHTWRITERS is looking for some contributors to help approve submissions
• Writers--club is Seeking Critics
• 2 Poetry, 2 Prose and 1 General Administrator are the open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
• Some admins are wanted to help out at Adopt-A-Writer.
• Poetry and Prose Critics are needed at SuperWritersHelp.
• Glory-Be-Project would like some new contributors.
• ink-slingers is looking for admins.
• Contributors are wanted at Soul-Poets
• Moderators are needed in the group, FantasyAuthorsGuild
• 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
• Love-4-Dark-Poetry is looking for someone to "assume the group and give all involved" attention.
•  Contibutor and Co-Founder positions are open at Sacred-Literature.
• Authors-Club would like to hire some admins.
• 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.
• FreeVersePoetry is hiring two critics.
• 1 Community Liaison and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.

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BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
inknalcohol - GrimFace242's DD Suggestion Guidelines
DorianHarper - star-blazer's DD Suggestion Guidelines
SingingFlames - SingingFlames's DD Suggestion Guidelines [ Fan Fiction ONLY.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!

#CRLiterature - The Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - October 2013
Literature DD Roundup - October 2013

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: November

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.


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