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Welcome to the one-hundred fiftieth 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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GrammarNaziCritiques is "a group dedicated to providing critiques to writers who want honest critiques instead of wishy-washy comments" and that is precisely what they do! They also have compiled a nice list of literary resources here to help you critique your own work and others. Their front page lists what each of their critics do.
Quick Links:
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/Updated Resources
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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 - November 2013
Literature DD Roundup - November 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: December
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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GrammarNaziCritiques is the bi-weekly spotlight!
LITplease's Community Portal
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
LITplease's Community Portal
A Smattering of Lit News
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Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
- PE: Poetry Basics Wrap Up
- The Music of Language: Prosody
- Choosing a Fixed Form for your Poem
- Specific Imagery: What Makes a Poem Good?
- Poetry Basics: Emotions
- Poetry Basics Week - Assonance and Consonance
- How To get Published
- Poetry Basics Week: Effective Imagery in Poetry
- Poetic Terms and Techniques
- Poetry Basics: Brevity
Literature Links
- Today, December 8th at 7pm EST LadyLincoln will be holding a special critiquing session!
- CRITMAS IS COMING!
- Poem of the Week - #50
- Project Educate: Fight Artist's/Writer's Block
- community updates from dev-lit
- Weekly Lit Reviews #1
- Artists on Writers - No. 3, Pablo Neruda
- Nichrysalis asks "Do you edit while you write? Does this help or hinder you?"
- Feature #2 - All the Beautiful Things
- doughboycafe is thinking of holding another contest.
- #SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
- SilverInkblot is Planning an unofficial LiteratureRoadtrip
- Forum Discussion: What is Your Participation Baseline?
- Community Poem #1!
- Encouragement-Affirmation-Inspiration
- Aerode will be resume Spudtacular! and +WriterWatch next week. and says that it is time for some reviews
- jswebb's poll: " I am in the mood to critique some poetry. Would you like my thoughts and/or constructive input?"
- WritersInk's Weekly Round-up!
- Forum Discussion: Another pet peeves thread!
- Lit Twitter is back!
- Have you ever recorded yourself reading a poem? Share here!
- Fan-Fiction-Tastic News #3
- Birthday Contest Winners!
Group News
- The-Creative-Writer's Contests will now be 2 week Contests and also asks what should be the next contest.
- Literature-Anonymous asks "What should be the next contest in L-A?" and updates regarding their contests
- We-Write-To-Escape's Fortnighly Theme - Holidays - Has Ended
- An update from DA-Poetics.
- FEATURE: Welcome New Members! NOVEMBER is Apocalypse-writing's newest journal.
- WritersInk asks " As a writer, what kinds of comments do you like seeing on your work - please be specific (don't say "any" lol) - eg. ones that critique me, ones that analyze the story or point, ones that are personal connections etc."
- PowerfulWriting's sbmissions are open.
- Writers-and-Editors updates their Need a critic? Want to be one? journal.
- 50 Word Flash is Writers-Extrodinaire's newest journal.
- EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 98!
- theWrittenRevolution posts two polls: "Would you be interested in attending a chat event about how to submit short story work to literary magazines?" and "Further, would you be interested in attending a chat event about what it means to write professionally?" as well as a A Fare Thee Well and other Thanksgivings
- An update from Short-Stories.
- A Monthly Update from Poets-and-Warriors.
- SeductiveInkWell's latest journals: Bi-Weekly Winner, Bi-monthly Winner, and Secret Santa
- SS3 of 2013 entries are in is Writers-Guild-DA's newest journal.
- Back To School contest update from Fiction-Writers.
- Contest Update / E-Zine Feature from Open-Mic-Poetry.
- WritersOfTheMoon is under new management and has a few changes.
- DeviantBookClub posts a list of possible first books.
- December Journal Showcase & Poetry Contest! from Original-Lit
- TheFutureswriters posts their Chat Rules.
- An update from Series-Unknown.
- Happy December from Literature-Pros.
- Persistent-Practice posts some interesting journals this week: Weekend Showcase 25, December 1, Motivation Monday 26, December 2, WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday 26, December 4, Thoughtful Thursday 26, December 5, Famous Advice Friday 26, December 6.
- devLIT's Critique Corner
- OfSweetSerendipity will be closing.
- Story Lines For Our Winter Event, Featured Deviants, You're Invited! has been updated, Ask Thai, and Stopping The Confusion areLiteraryPublications' latest journals.
- A Welcome Back from LiteratureRoadtrip
- Word-Smiths' Members of the Month
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GrammarNaziCritiques is "a group dedicated to providing critiques to writers who want honest critiques instead of wishy-washy comments" and that is precisely what they do! They also have compiled a nice list of literary resources here to help you critique your own work and others. Their front page lists what each of their critics do.
Quick Links:
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. 7
- Grouple: Literature + Writing
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:
- devLIT's Weekly Prompt [December 8th]
- Series-Unknown's Fiction Writing Exercise: Psychological Evaluation [December 8th]
- "Seven Devils" is Live-Love-Write's latest prompt. [December 12th]
- House-of-Playwrights's Weekly-ish Prompt #25 [December 14th]
- Flash Fan Fiction Friday: "Snow" is LiteraryFanFiction's prompt.
- Weekly Spontaneity: 87 from SixWordStories
- Theme of the Week: Snowy Mountain from Unseen-Writers
- Glory-Be-Project's Mid-Week Inspirations: Installment 6
- PoetryWithAVoice has a new weekly prompt.
Bi-Weekly:
- The Prompt Pool from PoeticalCondition [December 2nd]
- #SixWordStories' Bi-Weekly Prompt [December 5th]
- Fortnightly Theme - Holidays [December 6th]
- Versicolor Project [December 8th]
- Apocalypse-writing's Prompt: Nostalgia [December 14th]
- theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly prompt for December 2nd [December 15th]
Monthly:
- ScreamPrompt #41, December 2013
- Letters to your First Love [January 4th, 2014]
- The December Monthly Prompt from Horror-Writers-Unite
- skinnywords has their monthly prompt 8 posted.
Other:
- LOVE-Original-LIT's Holiday Challenge [December 31st]
- DALiteratureContests's Prompt List was Last Updated: Updated 4 December 2013 02:45 EST) [Various Group's Prompts Listed]
- Community Christmas Story
- LiteraryPublications' Winter Event
- Writing Out Our Love (Challenge)
- Forum Prompt (prose & poetry)
- "You are a leaf...", is Ecrit-de-la-poesie's prompt.
- Literature Critique Challenge
- OfSweetSerendipity's Prompts #8
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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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:
- Original-Lit Contest [Poetry Only](December 24th)
- the-life-of-words' Contest(December 30th)
- A Winter Cathedral - Poetry Contest (December 31st
Contests Ending This Week:
- Comment + Critique Exchange (Phase I ends December 8th)
- The 5-Day Prompt-Play Contest (December 9th to December 13th)
Contest Extensions:
- None this week!
- The December contest journal from DALiteratureContests has been updated!
- Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.
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Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- Fantastic Feature Tuesday #53
- 001. Wonderful Wednesday Feature
- The Bi-Weekly Flourish #7
- Friday Night Features CXXII
- Let's Talk Writing: Issue 21
- +WriterWatch (5) with littleblueraccoon
- Saturday Spotlight for December 7th, 2013
- Saturday Feature #13
- (17) handpicked: internet and television
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 141
- DLD to DD for December 3rd, 2013
- Amazing Deviants (10) : MagicalJoey
- Adjusting The Antennae (Ep. 4)
- The Bi-Weekly Flourish #6
- A Call to Conversation (28)--~ithaswhatitisnt
- The Indie Pen Dance - 8 - P. Anastasia
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXXVII
- Literary Compass - Vol. 14
- dAuthors Volume VII: Relativity
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XVI
- Lit. Daily Pick Volume Volume 11: November 2013
General Resources
- theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
- LadyLincoln's Journal
- SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
- Community Happenings from devLIT
- ApocaLit Fridays: Issue #18
- 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
- Conlanging: A How-To
- 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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Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- Series-Unknown is in need of some admins!
- New Admins Needed at PowerfulWriting.
- Admins to help manage deviations, comment/critique and answer general questions are needed at devLIT.
- Beta-Readers needs some help behind the scenes.
- Poetry Admins to review and critique submissions are currently needed at LOVE-Original-LIT
- 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
- Love-Literature would like some admins.
- Flying-Fingers is looking for admins to help with submisisons and other things.
- 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.
- 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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Literature Community Relations
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 - November 2013
Literature DD Roundup - November 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: December
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.
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Checking In
It's been quite a while since my last journal entry, about five years. I hope whoever is reading this knows I've never forgotten anyone and I think of all the friends I made here with such love and joy. I'm not sure how many people still linger on DA, but I hope that if you somehow stumble back to my page you know that I love you and wish you well. There is simply too much to go over for the span of five years, so I'll keep it short and sweet. I love you and I missed you. I don't write quite as much as I used to, but I've started dabbling more often again and was thinking of posting once more. I'm terribly out of practice, but it's something that's always been cathartic so it doesn't matter too much to me how "good" it is. Sometimes you just have to get the feelings out. Anyways, I hope you are having a wonderfully lovely day, my lovelies. How about some questions! What's your current favorite song? A video game you can't stop playing? TV show or movie you wish everyone else would
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
Love DA Lit: Issue 292
Welcome to the two-hundred ninety-second 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.
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