Love dA Lit: Issue 45

Welcome to the forty-fifth issue of my weekly news article, Love dA Lit! Every Sunday this news article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, interviewing various members of the literature community and spotlighting a specific group every week. 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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Poetry Screams Prompt Contest has begun!
Memnalar updates his All Hallow's Tales Literature Contest
Word Wars Chat Tour is heading to TheWritersMeow's chatroom October 8th.
TFP Features #67, #68, & #69
Updates on Polls, LITplease's blog regarding recent polls.
An update from Doctrinaire.
Collaborative Poem: Conclusion
Awesome Updates from the group, PowerfulWriting.
Important Things from TheWritingObsession.
dA-Literature updates their Group Submission Guidelines
dreamsinstatic has begun a new poetry group and is looking for admins to help out.
52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - Week 38
Mini-Contest: From the Outside Looking In - UPDATE
theWrittenRevolution's Featured Member XXXIX: ~tearsfadewithyou
LITplease's poll: "Would you like LITplease to post a 100 Theme Challenge to which you can submit entries and your progress can be tracked? "
ThePoetryofDA has begun their contest, "Haunted Fun Houses"
Starting Your Story
PoetryToTheMasses Contest Results
100ThemeWriters updates their project: A Story Written by 100 Writers
Live-Write-Now announces their Monthly Feature Winner.
Indie Ventures - Invert that Cliché!
The Acrostics Series: ^Halatia
Striking Literature
A Spotlight + Contest update from Beta-Readers.
Indie-Ventures blogs about Some Fantasy Inspiration.
Seeking suggestions for Friday Night Features
"Can you be a writer without being a reader?" asks SadisticIceCream.
Paranormal Encounters, Is-Est-Abyssus's contest has started.
Bleeding--Ink is also a Google Group now.
A bit of an update from knownames.
Poets-and-Warriors bids a farewell for their co-founder Moriah.
TheSimulacrum's poll: "The question of whether (and how) to allow *visual poetry in #TheSimulacrum has come up for debate. I have decided to allow input from our membership on this question."
TheSimulacrum has begun a debate on Visual Poetry being submitted to their gallery.
Letters-To-Myself's poll: "Letters To God...get your submissions in! "
The founder of Calling-All-Poetry will be away for a bit.
Wordsmiths-Guild's Featured Poem of the Month - September
#SixWordStories Showcase: September 5 - 19
"Are you ready to be motivated?" asks FocusOnLit.
An update from OnlyPoetry.
Writers-Retreat's contest has been extended.
Rad the Delightfully Bad--The Results!
A reminder and an update from Indie-Ventures.
The winner of Live-Write-Now's weekly feature has been announced.
A Group Event Update and Contest Update from MadWords.
WorldStory's chat is open.
PowerfulWriting updates their Submission Guidelines.
Voting has begun for wordflight's latest contest.
PowerfulWriting's submissions are open again.
The Elements of Horror
WritersInk's Weekly Roundup
100ThemeWriters' New Features Off to Slow Start and is looking for more member participation.
Authors-of-Fantasy's Weekly Feature--September 18th-September 25th
Open-Mic-Poetry issues a Poetry Challenge Reminder.
WreckingHavocOnPaper's Contest of Misery is on it's last stage of voting which ends the 27th.
Publishing Opportunity.
The Ronin of Words Strikes! [And is looking for allies!]


Literature Links [in other languages!]
Less than 7 Days until LiteraturaBR's current challenge ends. [Portuguese]
The group, LiteraturaBR now has a chatroom and invites members to chat. [Portuguese]
LiteraturaEspanol announces the Results of their Exercise #27. [Spanish]

I am still looking for non-English literature groups, I'd like to keep tabs on them too!






Weekly:
lacoterie's Weekly Poetry and Prose Prompts
Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Sooner or Later"
Literary-Perceptions' Prompt: Trust
"The Fourth Wall", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
devLIT's Weekly Prompt: “Write from the perspective of a stalker."
In the Family, the weekly writing prompt for LitResources
Writing Prompt #24 from FictionFridays.
"The Seasons" is WritersOfTheMoon’s weekly prompt.
Penpa's prompt #8.
Literary-Visions' weekly prompts. [Widget on the right hand-side]
Changes, LovingHowYouWrite's current weekly prompt.
Live-Write-Now's Weekly Theme.
“Cereal...”, WritersAreArtistsToo's weekly prompt.
Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Dreams
Wordsmiths-Guild's prompt.

Bi-Weekly:
OnlyPoetry's latest set of prompts.
Inked-Page's Bi Weekly Prompt
Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 32
Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 31!
Xpose-it's Bi-Weekly Writing Prompt: "the golden hour".
Letters To...God
theWrittenRevolution's Bi-Weekly Prompt
dA-lta's Bi-Weekly Prompts
New Beginnings, YoungPoets' bi-weekly theme.
[Bullet; Pink] "My name is...", TheWritersMeow's newest prompt.
[Bullet; Pink] "Curiosity", the bi-weekly prompt from Poets-N-Prose.
[Bullet; Pink] PowerfulWriting's bi-weekly prompt.
[Bullet; Pink] transliterations' Prompt 9: The Beginning!

Monthly:
[New][Bullet; Pink] Draft, FreeInVerse's Monthly Prompt. [October 19th]
[Bullet; Pink] Unseen-Writers' Monthly Challenge
[Bullet; Pink] The September Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta.
[Bullet; Pink] WritersOfToday's Monthly Prompt
[New][Bullet; Pink] SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts and Visual Stories Prompts
[Bullet; Pink] "Time", the monthly prompt at OneWordPrompt.
[Bullet; Pink] WriMo-Writers's Prompt for the Month of September
[Bullet; Pink] Living Life from a Writer's Perspective, Live-Write-Now's monthly theme. [October 12th]

Other:
[Bullet; Pink] Write a Character into Real Life
[Bullet; Pink] Haikai No Renga
[Bullet; Pink] The Neverending Poem
[Bullet; Pink] the-haiku-club's September Renga Tree
[Bullet; Pink] #NeverbeAlone: Project Awareness - Self-Harm II [September]
[Bullet; Pink] Project Heart
[Bullet; Pink] Plot-A-Scene Workshop
[Bullet; Pink] ScreamPrompt #19, September 2011
[Bullet; Pink] theWrittenRevolution's prompts.
[New][Bullet; Pink] Six Word Story Challenge hosted by the groups: theWrittenRevolution, SixWordStories, Live-Love-Write and Literary-Perceptions
[Bullet; Pink] YouAsTheNarrator's Monthly, Bi-weekly, Bi-Weekly Music Prompt, and Crossed Adventures Prompts
[New][Bullet; Pink] LITplease's Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction Prompts
[Bullet; Pink] Project Nine Lives





WorldStory is "purely a group community in which members create their own pages for the story, and then by popular demand, their page may end up as the official story that is the ongoing story" for the group.  Learn more about this group by clicking here!

Thank you kindly to dza1994 who speedily answered all my questions!



[Star!]How is WorldStory different from the other literature groups on dA?
How is WorldStory different? Simply because it's a cooperative effort. Most, if not all, other literature groups out there work on the writing, not on a book. Members submit several pages of their ideas and stories, showing their world of imagination to other members within the group in hopes of critique, sentimental value, or approval. It is a way to fit in, but there is no real goal besides the inevitable contest.

In WorldStory, there is one goal. Members not only express their own individual views and worlds to other  members, but they also have a chance to work on something big. In WorldStory, rather than working on a contest or small story, you work together to create a book using an idea that the majority thought sounded like the best idea for a story. If all goes well, the book will eventually be published, and all profits will be shared to those who's pages are within the book! Contests are made, yes, but what it comes down to is when the  members critique each others works and correct each others spelling and grammar. If you have been around earlier, you will also have noticed a chatroom was implemented into the group in order for members to exchange ideas for each chapter, giving the ability to brainstorm in an attempt to create the perfect chapter each time with consistent flow. With different submissions, however, a story is still created with this flow WHILE keeping each member's unique individuality and concepts for the story. Any story can go a million directions with each chapter, and with this in mind, WorldStory has taken advantage of this concept. If there are a million directions, then a group like WorldStory will have members eagerly ready to write and display each separate direction!

[Star!]WorldStory is currently hosting a contest, could you tell me a bit about that?
As for the contest. Quite simply put, you just need to visit the contest via the link on the left side of the group page or by browsing through journal history. I have explained all I can there.
["Fighting a Future" Chapter 1 Contest]

[Star!]Anything else of note that you would like to share?
Other things on my mind? Um..not at the moment. I'm sure I would have much more to tell you, but nothing really pops off the top of my head (cliche alert). However, I will happily answer any other questions you have for our group.


Quick Links:
[Bullet; Pink] Rules
[Bullet; Pink] Gallery
[Bullet; Pink] WorldStory Chatroom


If you're looking for some more groups head over to leoraigarath's Literature Groups List or Realm-of-Fantasy's for their list of literature groups[Fantasy, Sci-fi and General], or you could always head over to my journal to see the small list I've compiled. Or if you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!




These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.

Here are the contests ending this week:


[Star!]Rainbow Contest (September 25th)
[New][Star!]#PoetryUK's September Contest (September 28th)
[New][Star!]"Reveal Your Secrets" Contest (September 28th)
[New][Star!]Lost in Space Fan Fiction Contest [Word limit 5,000 please see link for details] (September 30th)
[New][Star!]Last to First Literature Contest (September 30th)
[New][Star!]Spirit Guides Contest (September 30th)
[New][Star!]Summer Memory (September 30th)
[New][Star!]9/11 [Poetry Only; please see link for details] (September 30th)
[New]star:Your vision of the 22th century (October 1st)
[New][Star!]The Fullmetal Alchemist Crossover Contest [Fan-fiction; please see link for details] (October 1st)
[New][Star!]A Time Reel [Please see link for details] (October 1st)
[New][Star!]The Seasons of the Forest (October 1st)
[New][Star!]Mini-Contest: From the Outside Looking In [2,000 word limit for prose; 50 line limit for poetry; please see link for details] (October 1st)





Regular Lit News Articles
[Bullet; Pink] LitBits - vol.VIII
[Bullet; Pink] The Ladies of Lit: Volume XIII
[Bullet; Pink] Darkest Corners LIT 15 - Horror Literature
[Bullet; Pink] Useful Writing Blogs #5: Wordplay
[Bullet; Pink] Writers With a Promise - issue 9
[New][Bullet; Pink] Friday Night Features XV
[Bullet; Pink] Deviant Dossier: IrrevocableFate
[Bullet; Pink] Wonderful critics, wonderful writers #4
[New][Bullet; Pink] PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 30
[Bullet; Pink] A Little Birdie Told Me...Vol. IV
[New][Bullet; Pink] The Saturday Spotlight
[New][Bullet; Pink] DLD to DD September 23rd, 2011


General Resources
[Bullet; Pink] LadyLincoln's Journal
[Bullet; Pink] lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
[New][Bullet; Pink] mode-de-vie's Community Update Journal
[Bullet; Pink] #SixWordStories Community Happenings
[Bullet; Pink] devLIT's Literary Happenings
[Bullet; Pink] WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
[Bullet; Pink] A List of Useful Writing Blogs
[Bullet; Pink] #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
[Bullet; Pink] #Mythologue's Literary Resources
[Bullet; Pink] #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links

Writing Resources
[Bullet; Pink] Writing Resources for Everyone
[Bullet; Pink] Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
[Bullet; Pink] LaMonaca's Writing Guides
[Bullet; Pink] LitResources' folder for Literature Tutorials
[Bullet; Pink] How to Write Euphonically
[Bullet; Pink] OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
[Bullet; Pink] Ten Tips for Writing
[Bullet; Pink] 10 Tips for Novel Writers
[Bullet; Pink] Three Act Structure
[Bullet; Pink] Style vs. Voice - A Guide
[Bullet; Pink] The Hard Work of Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Tips For Editing Poetry
[Bullet; Pink] Haiku Theory Part 1
[Bullet; Pink] Poetic Forms

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
[Bullet; Pink] Search Engines for Serious Writers
[Bullet; Pink] The NonVerbal Thesaurus
[Bullet; Pink] How to Write Without Editing
[Bullet; Pink] Critiquing Fiction
[Bullet; Pink] Prose Critique Basics
[Bullet; Pink] Beta Reading Tutorial
[Bullet; Pink] A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
[Bullet; Pink] Murdering Mary Sue
[Bullet; Pink] Extrasuperfabulous
[Bullet; Pink] Characterization and Names
[Bullet; Pink] Rehab for Roleplayers

Publishing Resources
[Bullet; Pink] SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
[Bullet; Pink] leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
[Bullet; Pink] On-Writing - Getting Published
[Bullet; Pink] Getting Published the Hard Way
[Bullet; Pink]  Tips on Self Publishing
[Bullet; Pink] Writing Exercise-Book Proposal
[Bullet; Pink] How to Get a Literary Agent
[Bullet; Pink] apocathary has created a customised calendar for submissions to Australian journals and competitions. [It can still be useful for others as some listed accept international submissions too.]
[Bullet; Pink] Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: DivertirPublishing
[Bullet; Pink] An Idiot's Guide to Publishing

E-Zines/Magazines
[Bullet; Pink] Harmless [Magazine]
[Bullet; Pink] Queer.
[Bullet; Pink] Steampunk Tales
[Bullet; Pink] G.W. Review
[Bullet; Pink] Soundzine
[Bullet; Pink] Fuselit
[Bullet; Pink] The Missing Slate
[Bullet; Pink] SapphireTuesday
[Bullet; Pink] Title Goes Here
[Bullet; Pink] Second Look
[Bullet; Pink] Verandah Literary Journal
[Bullet; Pink] Chameleon Dream
[Bullet; Pink] Machine of Death
[Bullet; Pink] Cram Magazine
[Bullet; Pink] Voiceworks
[Bullet; Pink] Shimmer





Updated:[Point Right] Writers--club is Adding Staff and Looking For New Critics
[Point Right] writingclub is looking for a founder and some other admins to help run the group.

[Point Right] 35-prompts-challenge is still in need of a founder.

[Point Right] Contributor positions are open at theWritersFoundation.

[Point Right] dA-Literature is looking for some more admins.

[Point Right] One more admin is needed in the group, OutstandingWriters.

[Point Right] Members to host workshops and contributors are wanted at Writers-Workshop

[Point Right] 100ThemeWriters is in need of admins

[Point Right] A critic and an inspirationalist are needed at Wordsmiths-Guild.

[Point Right] Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!

[Point Right] Applications for administartors are open for YoungPoets.

[Point Right] Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.

[Point Right] The group, Lit-Community's current founder is stepping down and is looking for someone to fill the position.

[Point Right] Poets-N-Prose is looking for volunteers to host a workshop

[Point Right] A Poetry Co-Admin is needed at WritersAreArtistsToo.

[Point Right] Community Liasons, TFP Appraises and Critics are needed over at LITplease.

[Point Right] Literature Moderator positions available over at Realm-of-Fantasy.

[Point Right] Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!

[Point Right] Applications for two contributors, or co-founders, are wanted at PPPLit.

[Point Right] Mythologue is in need of 5 Language moderators[French, Italian, Spanish, German, and English] and critic admins.

[Point Right] Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

[Point Right] 10 Critiquers, 5 Lit-Pickers, 2 Affiliate Admins, and 1 Contest Admin are needed at LitResources.

[Point Right] Poetry-101 has open admin positions.

[Point Right] Critics and Commentors are open for applications over at Live-Love-Write.

[Point Right] Critics, admins, and a team to help keep members "motivated, inspired and more involved" are needed at devLIT

[Point Right] A Contest admin is needed for the group Lit-WIP.

[Point Right] 2 Moderator Positions are open at HuesOfReality.

[Point Right] GrammarNaziCritiques is looking for poetry critics.

[Point Right] YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 1 Character Bio Moderator, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.

[Point Right] Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.

[Point Right] SuperWritersHelp is in need of more poetry critics.

[Point Right] 2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 3 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.

[Point Right] Scribblers-Anonymous is still looking for a reporter.

[Point Right] Various staff is needed to help with Gallery Moderation, Literature interviews, Prompt suggestions and postings, Polls, and Blog posts. over at Literary-Visions.

[Point Right] Prompts and Affiliates Admin positions are open at PennedPaper

[Point Right] Some greeters are needed for the group, RawEm0tion.

[Point Right] TheAlt-Lit has various positions open. [Widget on left-hand side.]

[Point Right] A gallery, folder, member, and affiliate admin are needed at TheUnheardVoices [Widget on the right-hand side.]





nycterent - nycterent's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Halatia - Halatia's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them! [:eager: by darkmoon3636]

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
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Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum

March in the Literature Forums
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: September


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[Note] FAQ #18: Who selects the Daily Deviation and how is it chosen?
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[Bullet; Pink] Want your group to be spotlighted? 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:
for letting me help run LITplease's Community Portal and spamming her inbox with countless notes, all while being wonderful.
for helping keep a lookout for literature groups for me and being fantastic, of course.
who is the newest LITplease Community Liason and will be helping me with gathering information while being fabulous.