Love dA Lit: Issue 153

Welcome to the one-hundred fifty-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.

Note: I kinda forgot to feature GrammarNaziCritiques two weeks in a row so I'll be making it up to the group by featuring them again. Sorry about that! Happy New Year! ♥

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• Rocking around the CRITmas tree!
• Sign Up For My New Literature Roadtrip 2.0
• Tobaeus says This here is mah pimp stick and This is Mah Other Pimp Stick. Pimping.
• Forum Discussion: Tell me about your writing
• "What is the best piece of literature you have read here on dA this year?"
• Just 17 days left of TwilightPoetess' DD and DLD Suggestion Contest!
• PoeticalCondition's Monthly Feature of Works
• How is your Critmas coming along?
• CelestialMemories asks "What do you consider a faux pas when it comes to writing literature?"
• Impromptu Feature
• on perfectionism and why it's bad
• SadisticIceCream posts an interesting poll: Some services are tracking people's e-book reading habits, and the New York Times is speculating on what this means for authors:
• Nichrysalis's poll: "Do you create holiday or seasonal literature/art?"
• LadyLincoln is Looking For New Ladies of Lit Suggestions!
• The Epic Author-Off: Results

Group News

• Merry Christmas and Bi-Weekly Winner and Author of the Year Changes are SeductiveInkWell's latest journals.
• Bright-Poets hosts a Puzzle Contest
• BeautyinthePages updates about their contest.
• APictureToA1000Words posts a new journal: It's Been A Long Road...
• First Look at the Literature Roadtrip Team and We Band of Writers: Joys of Lit Communities are LiteratureRoadtrip's newest journals.
• StoriesAndPoemsClub posts a Merry christmas and happy new year journal.
• SixWordStories reminds everyone less than 5 days to get your entries in.
• TheBackOfTheBook updates their admins and guidelines journal.
• Merry Christmas and an Announcement from write-to-live
• Yuletide Greeting and news from Authors-Club
• Well Merry Christmas from Always-Poetry.
• Merry Christmas from PoetrynProseWatchers as well!
• An update and such from Short-Stories.
• Merry Christmas from Short-Stories.
• Fiction-Writers's contest has closed.
• Original-Lit's Winter Poetry Contest - Winner Announced
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink asks members to Vote for the Winners of the November/December Forms Challenge:.
• EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 100 and Lit of the Week 101
• Happy Holidays, Gallery Folders and Reminders from AllPoetryIsGolden.
• Seasons Greetings From The Admin Team at WritersInk and a poll: "Do you believe that comics (ongoing stories not single strips) should be accepted within a lit group?"
• A thank you and other news from FictionWriters101
• NaNoWriM0 asks Writing for More than NaNoWriMo?
• Weekend Showcase 28, December 22 from Persistent-Practice

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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:

• Group Gallery
• Group Rules
• They also need critics if you're interested!

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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Weekly:

• Various Prompts are Live-Love-Write's latest prompts. [December 29th]
• House-of-Playwrights's Weekly-ish Prompt #28 [January 4th, 2014]
• Flash Fan Fiction Friday: "New Beginnings" is LiteraryFanFiction's prompt.
• Weekly Spontaneity: 90 from SixWordStories
• devLIT's Weekly Prompt: Traditions
• Theme of the Week: Sandman 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 23rd]
• Fortnightly Theme - Holidays [December 23rd]
• theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly prompt for December 16th [December 29th]
• #SixWordStories' Bi-Weekly Prompt [January 2nd, 2014]
• Versicolor Project [January 5th, 2014]
• Apocalypse-writing's Prompt: Random Prompts [January 17th, 2014]

Monthly:

• ScreamPrompt #41, December 2013
• Letters to your First Love [January 4th, 2014]
• The December Monthly Prompt from Horror-Writers-Unite
• November Forms Challenge--Extended [December 26th]
• December is for Six Word Stories at Multhaiku
• skinnywords has their monthly prompt 8 posted.

Other:

• DALiteratureContests's Prompt List was Last Updated: Updated 19 December 2013 05:02 EST) [Various Group's Prompts Listed]
• Souljournalist Challenge - Sign-up [December 31st]
• LOVE-Original-LIT's Holiday Challenge [December 31st]
• A Year of Writing: Let's Write about Pets

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:

• Remembrance of a Year that Past : Contest (January 10th, 2014)
• Fill In The Blanks Contest [100 Word Maximum; 10 Line Maximum] (January 12th, 2014)
• Title Poetry Contest [10 Line Minimum; 25 Line Maximum] (February 5th, 2014)

Contests Ending This Week:

• Romance Contest (December 29th)
• Writers4Life’s 5th Annual Writing Contest [3,000 word limit] (December 30th)
• the-life-of-words' Contest(December 30th)
• Christmas/New Years Contest (December 30th)
• Holiday Challenge (December 31st)
• SixWordStories Contest (December 31st)
• A Winter Cathedral - Poetry Contest (December 31st
• SixWordStories Contest [6 Word Stories Only] (December 31st)
• Fantasy Katauta Contest [Poetry Only; Please see link for details] (December 31st)
• 'Tis the Season of Miracles Contest (December 31st)
• Holiday Traditions Contest [Poetry Only] (January 1st, 2014)
• Lung Cancer Awareness: Year Four(January 1st, 2014)
• TheTitlePage's Mini-Contest (January 1st, 2014)
• "Historical Era" (January 6th, 2014)

Contest Extensions:

'Tis the Season of Miracles Contest's Deadline Has bene extended until December 31st.

• The December and 2014 contest journals from DALiteratureContests have been updated!
• Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.

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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 (6) with shehrozeameen
• Saturday Spotlight for December 28th, 2013
• Saturday Feature #13
• (19) handpicked: non-fiction
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 143
• Encouragement-Affirmation-Inspiration Feature #3
• DLD to DD for December 24th, 2013
• Amazing Deviants (11) : WeirdandLovely
• Adjusting The Antennae (Ep. 5)
• The Bi-Weekly Flourish #6
• A Call to Conversation (28)--~ithaswhatitisnt
• The Indie Pen Dance - 9 - Jodi McClure
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXXVII
• Literary Compass - Vol. 15
• dAuthors Volume VII: Relativity
• 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XVIII
• 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

• 50 Rantypants Snidbits Of Random Writing & Storytelling Advice [Off dA Link] Couretesy of raspil.
• 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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• A Co-Founder is wanted at Story-Corner.
• Call for Critics over at PoeticalCondition
• Series-Unknown is in need of some admins!
• New Admins Needed at PowerfulWriting.
• 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
• 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 Manager 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.
• 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 - DorianHarpers' 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 - December 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.
for telling me about their new group, PocketStories.


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