Love dA Lit: Issue 155

Welcome to the one-hundred fifty-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.

Note: Love dA Lit turns 3 years old next week.

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• Literature Articles You Should Know
• And now my watch has ended go give some love to BeccaJS as she is stepping down as Lit CV. She deserves hugs and your thanks.
• Forum Discussion: Lit. com participation challenge
• Critmas: The Results!
• Daily Lit Deviants of January 2014
• EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 104
• Feature: SasoDeiLover7
• Published Deviants
• Friday Feature #3
• How to get more views on your Literature
• Forum Discussion: What makes a group/site/forum welcoming/desirable for writers?
• WorldWar-Tori wants DLD suggestions.
• #SixWordStories Showcase: January 2nd - 16th
• Forum Discussion: uotes to remember when starting your first book
• "John Green speaks to dA (not really but you should read this anyways)"
• "Who is the best poet?" asks anapests-and-ink
• Forum Discussion: Why are they going to read your work?
• chromeantennae's poll: "How do line breaks play into the spacing and flow of your poetry?"
• imaginative-lioness' Literature Roadtrip: Day 4 and Day 5
• Nichrysalis's series, Daily Lit Deviant, continues: learningtobefree, childwoman, sadisticicecream, kiwi-damnation, 0hgravity, and Aconitum-Napellus
• Introducing Prose Basics [Help!]

Group News

• Back from the dead- almost is Adopt-a-Plot's latest journal.
• SuperWritersHelp will be closing.
• PocketStories' Kickstarting the Imagination: Feedback
• "What's Happenin'?" from NotreForteresseBrule
• Authors-Club's latest journal: just something to think about" and poll: "Do you believe in your writing?
• Why we write from We-Write-To-Escape.
• The-Creative-Writer wants to know "What should be the next contest in TCW?
• Literature-Anonymous asks "What should be the next contest in L-A?"
• From Writers-Guild-DA: 2013 SS3 Winners + Info about Prizes and 2014 SS1!
• Hello?! Any Members here? asks Freedom-From-Words.
• Apocalypse-writing's FEATURE: Welcome New Members! DECEMBER
• Group Promotion and Adoption News from Adopt-A-Writer
• Idea For Your Narrative? is Nurturing-Narratives' latest journal.
• devLIT updates their About + F.A.Q.
• Bi-Monthly and Bi-Weekly Winners from SeductiveInkWell.
• LiteratureRoadtrip posts their interview series WayWords (3)
• Critique Department Newsletter #3 from PoeticalCondition
• Mid-Week Update: Literary Merit in Fanfiction
• 10,000 Hours and The Market are NaNoWriM0's latest journals.
• Some Community Encouragement and a new chatroom from LivingLiterature.
• Glory-Be-Project's Glory Be! 2014 Swap Meet and has a new folder.
• SixWordStories' Happy New Year, SixWordStories Writers and SixWordStories Tournament
• New Rule and Stories Available for Swapping from writers-central
• WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up, New Folder - Rules and Info - Please Read, and their two polls: " Do preview images "add" anything to lit? Or are they needless fluff? We'd love to hear your view." and " What is "Visual Poetry"?"
• The Criticarium - Reminder
• Persistent-Practice's Weekend Showcase 29, January 12, Motivation Monday 30, January 13, WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday, January 15, Famous Advice Friday 30, January 17, Thoughtful Thursday 30, January 16, and Weekend Wonderland 30, January 19.

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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. 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. [January 10th]
• House-of-Playwrights's Weekly-ish Prompt #31 [January 25th]
• Apocalypse-writing's 2014 Prompts: First Line - Week 1
• Horror-Writers-Unite's January Monthly Prompts: Week 3
• Souljournalist Challenge|Week 3|Places
• Prompt Friday from NaNoWriM0
• Weekly Spontaneity: 93 from SixWordStories
• Theme of the Week: Rodent from Unseen-Writers
• Flash Fan Fiction Friday: "Freedom" is LiteraryFanFiction's prompt.
• Fiction Writing Exercise: Mary Sue
• Theme Week: Blue or Rain from Always-Poetry
• A Year of Writing: Let's Write About Found Words

Bi-Weekly:

• Versicolor Project [January 19th]
• Literature-and-Stuff's Prompt: "Rival" [January 24th]
• "Reflections" is We-Write-To-Escape's fortnightly theme. [January 27th]
• #SixWordStories' Bi-Weekly Prompt [January 30th]

Monthly:

• ScreamPrompt #42, January 2014 [January 31st]
• A-challenge-to-write's January Challenge [January 31st]
• devLIT's Monthly Prompt: Snowflakes [January 31st]
• A Half Challenge from APictureToA1000Words [Janauary 31st]
• Letters to a Fictional Character [February 23rd]
• skinnywords has their monthly prompt 9 posted.
• December is for Six Word Stories at Multhaiku

Other:

• DALiteratureContests's Prompt List was Last Updated: 16 January 19:52 EST [Various Group's Prompts Listed]
• Freedom-From-Words' Prompt 10
• Prompt #1 from Waka-Poets.

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:

• Deep in the Woods Contest (January 26th)
• Literature Roadtrip: The Contest (February 1st)
• Valentine's Contest [Poetry Only; 4 line minimum and 24 line maximum] (February 14th)
• Valentine Contest [Poetry Only; Please see link for details] (February 18th)

Contests Ending This Week:

• Literature-Pros' Contest [500 Word Limit] (January 20th)
• New Beginnings Contest [Poetry Only] (January 21st)
• SixWordStories Tournament [Please see link for details] (Round 1 Ends January 21st)
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's January Contest [Poetry Only] (January 24th)
• Adoption Flash Story Contest [300 Word Maximum] (January 26th)
• Deep in the Woods Contest (January 26th)

Contest Extensions:

• Literature-Pros' Contest [500 Word Limit] (January 20th)
• Back to School Contest (January 31st)

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

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Regular Lit Articles

• Fantastic Feature Tuesday #56
• Selected Stories And Charming Chapters II
• 001. Wonderful Wednesday Feature
• The Bi-Weekly Flourish #8
• Friday Night Features CXXII
• Let's Talk Writing: Issue 21
• +WriterWatch (9) with KathrynODriscoll
• Saturday Spotlight for January 11th, 2014
• Saturday Feature #13
• (20) handpicked: 0hgravity
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 146
• Encouragement-Affirmation-Inspiration Feature #6
• DLD to DD for January 14th, 2014
• Spudtacular! (10) with GuinevereToGwen
• Amazing Deviants (13) : AeroModo
• Adjusting The Antennae (Ep. 5)
• Be A Critic: MatthewKoon
• The Indie Pen Dance - 9 - Jodi McClure
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXXVIII
• Literary Compass - Vol. 16
• dAuthors Volume VII: Relativity
• 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XVIII
• Lit. Daily Pick Volume Volume 12: December 2013
• dAwesome (1) - HugQueen
• January Double Feature

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

• On Literary Criticism and dA Critique
• 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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• Co-Founders Needed at DALiteratureContests
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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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neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
inknalcohol - GrimFace242's DD Suggestion Guidelines
DorianHarper - DorianHarper's DD Suggestion Guidelines
SingingFlames - SingingFlames' 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 - January 2013
Literature DD Roundup - December 2013

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: January

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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