Love dA Lit: Issue 52

Welcome to the fifty-second 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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• Unconventional-Story has given a Deadline Extension for their contest. [December 15th]
• megan24601 is hosting a Secret Santa.
• HammeredPoetry is back and has a few updates as well as continuing their 4th prompt!
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink has started a series of polls to determine which forms they will go over. POLL ONE (of four) - Haiku Prompt Voting:
• Ladies of Lit chat event, today, November 13th at 7:30 pm EST.
• transliterations' poll: "Starting from next week, #transliterations will be running a series of weekly mini-challenges in our poll. What sort of challenges, mini-ness aside? Have your say now!"
• lit-lash has begun their weekly prompts
• WritersOfTheMoon won't be having prompts for a while. Though they will be hosting a contest.
• "Do you know how to suggest Literature DDs and do you ever suggest them?" asks theWrittenRevolution
• Letters-To-Myself is a Supergroup again and announces a small update.
• Indie-Ventures' submissions are now closed.
• Written-Imagination's Creative Writing Course - Descriptive Language ends November 22nd.
• A Few Little Reminders from Written-Imagination.
• KisayaMyst asks "When should the next uber 2-hour word war be (for the NaNoWriMo chat)?"
• 52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - Week 45
• EliteLiterature asks members to vote for their  "Lit of the Week 4."
• WriterSecretSanta's Secret Santa 2011 - Sign-Up OPEN . Sign-ups close the 14th.
• Some changes are coming to Prosepoetry-Elegance.
• Writers--club's Writing Tournament 2011: First Round
• LiteratureforPoints' translation services are up and considers on-the-spot translations.
• An update and new prompt from Apocalypse-writing
• TFP Features #75, #76 and #77
• Day 12 of TheScribblists' NaNoWriMo competition.
• Literature-Cafe has some Announcements, November Edition.
• PE Interview: 3wyl
• Writers--club updates their Tournament Participants List.
• Live-Love-Write has begun a fund forSuper Group Donations.
• Literature Skins: The What & How an informative journal posted by WritersInk
• Have you nominated your partner for the Member Spotlight? asks Beta-Readers
• Beta-Readers' Community News.
• An introduction from knownames' newest admin.
• NaNoWriMo-Love asks "Are You Feeling the Effects?"
• Some news and updates from EnchantedPoetry.
• Loads of Updates from LITplease.
• #SixWordStories: Monthly Showcase
• Writers--club's Member of the Month for November
• LITplease's Splendid Scripts Judging is in Progress.
• LiteratureforPoints puts up a discussion concerning two more categories.
• TheObviousChild is offering a service for reading, editing and critiquing creative writing.
• WritersInk's poll: "Changes have recently been made to to dA's News, Journal and Lit systems. How clear are the changes to you? (We don't want to discuss the pros and cons here, we just want to know how aware the community is) "
• TheWritersMeow has a new founder and updates members on NaNoWriMo.
• More Discussions going on at Live-Write-Now.
• WrittenLegacy's Waiting for Winter Contest is one month away.
• Word-Smiths on WordPress.
• LiteraryAbandon's Week 1 Word-in
• Another Discussion has begun at Live-Write-Now.
• NaNoWriM0 posts a journal about NaNoWriMo.
• #LITplease Wrap Up - Chat Tour
• silverfleckedlullaby's Watcher Appreciation Part I
• Announcments from Soul-Poets.
• transliterations' Prompt 10: The Conclusion.
• knownames' poll: "Is there any reason why you don't enter into group competitions?"
• NaNo Week 2 Pep Talk and Announcements from Lit-WIP.
• Poets-and-Warriors has fixed their submission issue.
• WritersInk's Weekly Roundup
• Fuyu Saijiki contest, hosted by the-haiku-club.
• the-haiku-club's 2011 July Saijiki Contest: Winners
• communityrelations releases the  Halloween 100 Word Stories Winners.
• Authors-Club is asking their members for some help.
• Go give lots of love to nycterent for her time as Literature CV
• Official 2011 NaNoWriMo Thread
• Chat Tour Schedule

Literature Links [in other languages!]

• LiteraturaBR's challenge has ended and the winners announced then begins their new challenge. [Portuguese]
• Voting for LetraHispana's current contest is underway. [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: "Shadow of the Moon"
• "Zombie Apocalypse", 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.
• Literary-Visions' weekly prompts. [Widget on the right hand-side]
• Live-Write-Now's Weekly Theme.
• A character prompt is, WritersAreArtistsToo's weekly prompt.
• Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Boredom
• Wordsmiths-Guild's various prompts.
• Allusion Confusion, EliteLiterature's weekly theme.
• FreePoetryElite's Second Week Theme: Pop Myths
• House-of-Playwrights's Weekly promptis a Theme/Quote Combo.
• Prompt One of lit-lash's weekly prompts has begun.

Bi-Weekly:

• OnlyPoetry's latest set of prompts.
• Inked-Page's Bi Weekly Prompt
• Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 34
• Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 31!
• Xpose-it's Bi-Weekly Writing Prompt: "the golden hour".
• Letters To...A Witch/Wizard or Ghost/Ghoul
• theWrittenRevolution's Bi-Weekly Prompt
• New Beginnings, YoungPoets' bi-weekly theme.
• "3:00 AM", TheWritersMeow's newest prompt.
• "Curiosity", the bi-weekly prompt from Poets-N-Prose.
• PowerfulWriting's bi-weekly prompt.
• transliterations' Prompt 11: The Beginning! [November 28th]
• Literary-Perceptions' Prompt: Halloween
• Lament, Written-Imagination's prompt. [Novemeber 27th]

Monthly:

• Unseen-Writers' Monthly Challenge
• The November Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta.
• WritersOfToday's Monthly Prompt
• SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
• "Safe", the monthly prompt at OneWordPrompt.
• WriMo-Writers's Prompt for the Month of September
• HammeredPoetry Prompt #4: Etymoetry [November 30th]

Other:

• Love-4-Dark-Poetry's current prompt "Fallen from Grace" runs until November 30th
• Apocalypse-writing's prompt.
• BlueMoonBird's newest challenge, Spin-the-bottle shokuga time.
• LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
• Creepy Hotel and Urn and Ashes, Lit-WIP's prompts. [December 1st]
• Rhyme-and-Reason's Autumn Prompt 2011
• Horror-Stories's Special October Theme [December 1st]
• Haikai No Renga
• theWrittenRevolution's prompts.
• Six Word Story Challenge hosted by the groups: theWrittenRevolution, SixWordStories, Live-Love-Write and Literary-Perceptions
• YouAsTheNarrator's Monthly, Bi-weekly, Bi-Weekly Music Prompt, and Crossed Adventures Prompts
• LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts
• Project Nine Lives

LiteratureforPoints is a "A place for those willing to write for points, and for those looking to commission certain writing. Original works, fan fiction, short stories, and poems included." They have a vast list of writers offering commissions as well as those offering translations. Learn more about this group by clicking here!

Thank you to dmnq8, who happily agreed to answer a few questions for me.


How is LiteratureforPoints different from the other literature groups on dA?
I haven't seen all the literature groups dA has to offer, but I've seen most of them, I think. LiteratureforPoints is different in that we're only a collection of writers who offer their services for points, instead of writers sharing their craft, or looking for guidance and support. I wanted one place both writers and prospective commissioners of writers could come to, and that's what this group is. It's very simple.

What did you hope to accomplish when you began LiteratureforPoints? Have you done that so far?
I had hoped to provide a place for writers to register their willingness to be commissioned for points, and a resource of same to the dA lit community. So far I'm amazed at how many people have joined. I honestly didn't think the group would grow so fast, but that only proves that there was a real need for it. I think I've accomplished the goal I set for myself in this regard, yes. Several people, including myself, have already been commissioned.

Anything else of note that you would like to share?
Yes. Our group is also unique in that our gallery is strictly for people wanting to 'advertise' something they'd like written. It's sort of like the classifieds section of a newspaper. There have been some submissions, but once a writer has been chosen the ad is removed. This leaves our gallery free for other submissions. Anyone can submit to our gallery.


Quick Links:

• Rules
• List of Writers [Widget on the left-hand side.]
• Gallery

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:


Tinkerbell-Mania's Pixie Hollow/Peter Pan Contest [Please see link for details] (November 15th)
Opposing Viewpoint Murder Mystery [Prose only; please see link for details] (November 15th)
Catku Contest [Eastern poetry only; please see link for details] (November 15th)
Chaos and Absurdity (November 18th)
"Dear Grimmjow, Love Ichigo" Contest [Fan-fiction, please see link for details] (November 19th)
Curiosity Contest [prose: 2,000 word limit; Poetry must be between 4 and 48 lines; please see link for details] (November 19th)
"Who/What Am I?" [Poetry only; please see link for details] (November 20th)








Regular Lit News Articles

• LitBits - vol.VIII
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XV
• Darkest Corners LIT 15 - Horror Literature
• Writers With a Promise - Issue 11
• Friday Night Features XXII
• Deviant Dossier: IrrevocableFate
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 37
• The Saturday Spotlight
• DLD to DD, November 11th, 2011
• Novel Tease Newsletter - Issue 3

General Resources

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

Writing Resources

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

Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources

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

Publishing Resources

• SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
• leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
• On-Writing - Getting Published
• Getting Published the Hard Way
•   Tips on Self Publishing
• Writing Exercise-Book Proposal
• How to Get a Literary Agent
• 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.]
• Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: DivertirPublishing
• An Idiot's Guide to Publishing

E-Zines/Magazines

• Harmless [Magazine]
• Queer.
• Steampunk Tales
• G.W. Review
• Soundzine
• Fuselit
• The Missing Slate
• SapphireTuesday
• Title Goes Here
• Second Look
• Verandah Literary Journal
• Chameleon Dream
• Machine of Death
• Cram Magazine
• Voiceworks
• Shimmer

PowerfulWriting is in need of contributors.

2 Freelancer positions are opne at EliteLiterature.

Updated: 1 Prompt Admin, 1 Community Liason, 2 TFP Appraises and 3 Critics are needed over at LITplease.

Updated: Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!

WA-writersblock is looking for someone to take over the group.

Poets-N-Prose is looking for some admins.

SuperWritersHelp is in dire need of critics.

Written-Imagination is looking for contributors.

2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.

1 Prose Administrator is needed at DailyLitDeviations.

Literature Moderator positions available over at Realm-of-Fantasy.

Members to host workshops and contributors are wanted at Writers-Workshop

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

writingclub is looking for a founder and some other admins to help run the group.

35-prompts-challenge is still in need of a founder.

100ThemeWriters is in need of admins

A critic and an inspirationalist are needed at Wordsmiths-Guild.

Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!

Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.

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

Applications for two contributors, or co-founders, are wanted at PPPLit.

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

Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

Critics and Commentors are open for applications over at Live-Love-Write.

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

2 Moderator Positions are open at HuesOfReality.

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.

Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.

Scribblers-Anonymous is still looking for a reporter.

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

Some greeters are needed for the group, RawEm0tion.

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

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





Halatia - Halatia's DD Suggestion Guidelines
ikazon - lightningmonkey's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
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