Love dA Lit: Issue 47

Welcome to the forty-seventh 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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Meet, Greet, Lit Critique in #CRLiterature is currently going on right now!
Informal Interviews: jswebb - Transcript
TheWritersMeow's Word wars wrap up!
Writer-Promotion is looking for prizes for their Halloween Contest.
SPOTLIGHTWRITERS' WotM November: Voting Time!
Indie-Ventures' Submission Week One Officially Closed
Chat Tour Schedule, the next stop is lacoterie's chatroom.
#TheWritersMeow Wrap Up
#FocusOnLit Wrap Up (old)
Word-Smiths blog: "Poetry Submissions wanted for Possible Publication".
52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - Week 40
theWrittenRevolution's Featured Member XLI: alexiscaitlinking
FocusOnLit updates Your First Mission
Halloween Fest, a contest hosted by My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink.
LITplease's Splendid Scripts Prize List Finalized!
TFP Features #70, #71, & #72
LadyLincoln's poll: "Should I Continue to Post my Ladies of Lit Features?"
Ordinary-Writing's Halloween Contest has started.
Making the Monologue, Writers-Workshop's current workshop is open.
MadWords' contest has ended.
Looking in the Mirror
PoetryMagazine's is accepting submissions again.
100ThemeWriters' blog The Story Continues
Creative Writing Course - Character Part I + NEWS from Teenage-Writers.
10 types of Writer's Block &How to Overcome Them
A bit of an update from Indie-Ventures.
A Halloween Contest from FantasyAuthorsGuild has begun.
Written-Imagination's contest is over and is looking for contributors.
Agents Try to "Straighten" Gay Characters in YA
Publishing Chance and a few reminders from TheWritersMeow.
"What's your favourite genre of STORY to read on dA? If you know a group which serves that genre well, comment it!" asks WritersInk.
An update from Adopt-A-Writer.
Salutes and Announcements from Lit-WIP.
Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--October Pairs.
transliterations' Prompt 9: The Conclusion
Written-Imagination updates on their critiquing program.
Transliterations: Prompt 9 Results
Mini-Contest: From the Outside Looking In is over, vote for the winners here.
On the Poet - =zebrazebrazebra
A reminder and update from Written-Imagination.
Live-Write-Now's weekly feature.
jochannon has begun a Publishing Project
hq updates on Sta.sh and the upcoming Sta.sh Writer.
Rotting Poetry, IV and Rotting Poetry V, Pablo Neruda
knownames' poll: "In the spirit of the season our next contest should be a real horror, do you want... "
Scribes-Are-Beckoned conducts an interview with their first place winner.
Some announcements from Soul-Poets.
RawEm0tion's Collab winners announced.
ThePoetryofDA updates their contest.
Weekly Roundup & Some Introductions from WritersInk.
PoetryUK announces their September Contest Results.
Interpreting Feedback, Indie-Ventures' blog.
My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink blogs about Lit-Tags and Donations
#SixWordStories Showcase: September 19 - October 3
Scribes-Are-Beckoned announces the "A Time Reel" winners.
write-to-live's Affiliates Of The Week #20
Ticked Off with `lightningmonkey
ikazon is now a Literture CV go welcome him and give him some love!
Welcome Wagon Writers: Devious Feature
Poetry Screams Prompt Contest has begun!
Memnalar updates his All Hallow's Tales Literature Contest
The Ronin of Words Strikes! [And is looking for allies!]


Literature Links [in other languages!]
LiteraturaEspanol's Exercise 28 has started. [Spanish]
LiteraturaBR announces the results of last months' challenge and the new one that has begun. [Portuguese]
ArteScritta is hositng a contest. [Italian]
LiteraturaBR is looking for two contributors. [Portuguese]
LiteraturaBR now has a critique folder. [Portuguese]

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: "A Demon's Fate"
Literary-Perceptions' Prompt: Trust
"Dancing In The Rain", 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.
"Gone" 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.
A character prompt is, WritersAreArtistsToo's weekly prompt.
Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Innocence
[New][Bullet; Pink] Wordsmiths-Guild's various prompts.

Bi-Weekly:
[Bullet; Pink] OnlyPoetry's latest set of prompts.
[Bullet; Pink] Inked-Page's Bi Weekly Prompt
[New][Bullet; Pink] Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 33
[Bullet; Pink] Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 31!
[Bullet; Pink] Xpose-it's Bi-Weekly Writing Prompt: "the golden hour".
[Bullet; Pink] Letters To...God
[Bullet; Pink] theWrittenRevolution's Bi-Weekly Prompt
[Bullet; Pink] New Beginnings, YoungPoets' bi-weekly theme.
[Bullet; Pink] "The Rose", 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:
[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:
[New][Bullet; Pink] Creative Writing Course - Character Part I [October 21st]
[New][Bullet; Pink] Rhyme-and-Reason's Autumn Prompt 2011
[Bullet; Pink] By The Stream Of Their Conscious [October 30th]
[Bullet; Pink] Making the Monologue [Conclusion of workshop: October 22nd]
[Bullet; Pink] Horror-Stories's Special October Theme [December 1st]
[Bullet; Pink] Haikai No Renga
[Bullet; Pink] Project Heart
[Bullet; Pink] ScreamPrompt #20, October 1, 2011 [October 23rd]
[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
[Bullet; Pink] LITplease's Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction Prompts
[Bullet; Pink] Project Nine Lives





LooseLacesPoetry is one of the larger literature groups on dA, but despite their name they don't only focus on poetry, they accept all types of literature and varying skill levels. Learn more about this group by clicking here!

Lots of thank you's to  sasukeongofreak for graciously giving their time to answer some of my questions!


[Star!]How is LooseLacesPoetry different from the other literature groups on dA?
When I first decided to found LooseLacesPoetry, I wanted it to not have as many restrictions as I was seeing in some of the first groups I fished around. Most of them we're one subject related, with strict posting rules, and so overwhelming, that just looking at it made me afraid of posting anything, that I might break some rule I missed. LooseLacesPoetry is different because you can say anything you want, there are a few little rules, necessary to prevent graphic pornographic things, but otherwise, it's radical freedom of speech and expression. "Troll Poetry" is even allowed, because well, it's their voice, and if our members don't like it, then that's the beauty of the group, you don't have to read that poetry, there's thousands of other options to read.

[Star!]Does LooseLacesPoetry have any upcoming events or contests? If so, could you please explain a bit about them.
Right now we don't have any upcoming contests, I'm sure my admin I've put in charge RaineDrops18 will be brainstorming soon to bring up another great contest.

[Star!]LooseLacesPoetry is one of the larger literature groups out there,  do you have any advice on keeping members interested and not overwhelming them with submissions?
Yes, I do! At the get go, I neglected to put a submission limit, so pretty soon I was flooded with thousands of poems, so limit it as much as you can, maybe two or just one deviation per day, per deviant. You can also make frequent contests and events, and not contests with strict rules (ew), things that are loose, abstract, it's poetry for goodness sake, it shouldn't have strings attached, haha, beginning to understand our group title? Any rate, contests with loose themes like dreams, or nightmares, and maybe have them explain how it matches that, or have them include that word in the poem. At one time we had an icon design contest, to get a new icon and commemorate our 1st birthday. Contests don't have to be restricted to just what your group does, if you have ideas, don't be afraid to share.

Lastly, GET SOME GREAT ADMINS. I had no idea this group would become so big, and pretty soon I was fishing through things I couldn't handle myself, if you have a good team mate to back you up, they can help keep the members satisfied who have so many questions and need assistance. Big groups mean more workers.


Quick Links:
[Bullet; Pink] Rules and How To Submit
[Bullet; Pink] F.A.Q
[Bullet; Pink] Gallery
[Bullet; Pink] #LooseLacesPoetry's Twitter



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:


[New][Star!]Double Yang Contest [Eastern poetry only; please see link for details] (October 15th)
[New][Star!]Halloween Prompts [1,000 word minimum and 4,000 word maximum; please see link for details] (October 16th)
[New][Star!]#My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's Halloween Contest [Poetry only, 100 line limit; please see link for details] (October 16th)





Regular Lit News Articles
[Bullet; Pink] LitBits - vol.VIII
[New][Bullet; Pink] The Ladies of Lit: Volume XIV
[Bullet; Pink] Darkest Corners LIT 15 - Horror Literature
[Bullet; Pink] Useful Writing Blogs #5: Wordplay
[Bullet; Pink] Writers With a Promise - issue 10
[New][Bullet; Pink] Friday Night Features XVII
[Bullet; Pink] Deviant Dossier: IrrevocableFate
[Bullet; Pink] Wonderful critics, wonderful writers #4
[New][Bullet; Pink] PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 32
[Bullet; Pink] A Little Birdie Told Me...Vol. IV
[New][Bullet; Pink] The Saturday Spotlight
[New][Bullet; Pink] DLD to DD--October 7th, 2011
[Bullet; Pink] Novel Tease Newsletter - Issue 2


General Resources
[Bullet; Pink] LadyLincoln's Journal
[Bullet; Pink] lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
[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





[New][Point Right] Written-Imagination is looking for contributors.

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

[Point Right] 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.

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

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

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

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

[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] 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] 2 Moderator Positions are open at HuesOfReality.

[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] 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
ikazon - lightningmonkey'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
Literature CR Update - September 2011
September's Literature Daily Deviations

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum

March in the Literature Forums
[New]Monthly Literature Critique Thread: October


[Note] FAQ #61: What is a Daily Deviation?
[Note] FAQ #18: Who selects the Daily Deviation and how is it chosen?
[Note] FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?

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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.