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Welcome to the sixty-sixth issue of my weekly news article, 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, 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.
Literature Links [in other languages!]
I am still looking for non-English literature groups, I'd like to keep tabs on them too!
Apologies, but there is no group spotlight this week. Hopefully next week I'll be back on top of things. ♥
Looking for more groups?
leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
Realm-of-Fantasy's list of literature groups[Fantasy, Sci-fi and General]
My journal[recently re-vamped!] has a small list that I've compiled.
If you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!
Weekly:
Bi-Weekly:
Monthly:
Workshops and Challenges:
Other:
Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:
These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.
New Contests:
Contests Ending This Week:
Regular Lit Articles
General Resources
Writing Resources [General]
Prose Resources
Poetry Resources
Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
Publishing Resources
E-Zines/Magazines
ikazon - lightningmonkey's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - January 2012
Januarys's Literature Daily Deviations
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: February
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?
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:
for letting me help run LITplease's Community Portal and spamming her inbox with countless notes, all while being wonderful.
a LITplease Community Liason and will be helping me with gathering information while being fabulous.
another LITplease Community Liason who will be helping gather even more information and continuing to be awesome.
Literature Links
- Daily Deviations Update
- TenderPassion is a new group and has launched.
- Breaking in to Lit!
- EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 14! williamszm, Phu-Phu-Hugs-Me, and LadyofGaerdon
- Updates from WritersInk regarding their Crit Chat and the Word Wars Chat Tour.
- theWrittenRevolution's Group Feature II
- LadyofGaerdon's Rose-Shadow Fan Art/Fiction Contest ends the 28th!
- Off dA links: DeviantLITERATURE's plans for the group [in video form] link one link two
- Lit Fortnightly is Back! Do you have any feedback?
- Writer-Promotion posts a few concerns regarding co-founders.
- Some announcements and updates from Love-Literature.
- Apocalypse-writing's 'Plan B' Competition has been extended until February 20th.
- Poem of the Week - #20
- The pairings for InCahootsLiterature's challenge are completed.
- writeaway reminds members their contest ends on February 20th.
- Updates and announcements from DeviantLITERATURE.
- wordflight asks members opinions on what they'd like to see in a contest.
- Less than a month until megan24601's Fan Fiction contest ends.
- The contest winners of Teenage-Writers' contest are announced.
- Literary-Perceptions is Reorganized and Reopened
- Updates regarding submitting and re-submitting from the group, Breathing-Poetry
- Interview #1: *007Balel
- An apology from MagicalLiterature.
- The Results of Penpa's competition have been announced.
- Writers--club's Member of the Month ~ February 2012
- Flash Fiction Contest Update
- Greetings and updates from MidtownMagic.
- First Lines
- A New Beginning for the group, Critics-in-Training.
- MidtownMagic asks "Would you be interested in having a regularly scheduled chat about Urban Fantasy?"
- The group, Love-Literature, wants feedback from their members..
- WritersInk's poll: Members - are you Watching the group's Journal to keep up to date with the latest features, events and news?"
- Modernising Myths Contest: CLOSED!
- "When it comes to poetry there is..." dreamsinstatic's poll.
- Lit-WIP reminds members of the group rules.
- Wannabe-Novelists posts some updates and current happenings with the group.
- lacoterie's poll: "What do you want to see most here?"
- An apology and some updates from Lyrics-Community
- Publishing Opportunity
- JustKeepWriting's contest has ended and has a few updates.
- FeatheredWords asks members for their input: "What do you feel like our group is missing? Are there any activities you think the group should have? Send in your ideas below."
- SixWordStories' contest has ended and judging has begun.
- An update from PoetryMagazine
- Adopt-A-Writer asks members to send in their applications again as they are starting from scratch.
- The group, Write-Original, is looking for prize donations for their contest.
- 15-Minutes-of-Fame's The Frankenstein Project will be closing shortly.
- WotM March: Reminder from SPOTLIGHTWRITERS
- EliteLiterature asks "Are you happy with the format of #EliteLiterature's homepage?"
- EditorialSquad has begun jthe judging for their Critique Contest.
- knownames' Love Without Boundaries Contest has ended and asks members to vote.
- RawEm0tion announces their RawEm0tion Laureate and updates their Poetry/Prose RPG: Lvl Up
- Candy Hearts Results and Lit Haps from TheWritersMeow.
- Interview with ~EnthusiasticArtist
- The winners of Love-Literature's contest have been revealed and they have a few other announcements.
- We-Write-To-Escape posts their Fortnightly Theme Results and announces their In Need of Critiques Folder is closed in order to get caught up.
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume VIII
- Naturally-Written updates about their contest.
- JustKeepWriting's Weekly Selections is Back on Tuesday.
- Memnalar's poll: "Mulling ideas for my Spring contest. Which theme provokes your thoughts?"
- On Steampunk
- Heart-of-Poetry announces their Valentine's Day Contest Results.
- Writers-Workshop's Killing a Character: Wrap-Up
- SilverInkblot has a new passage up for discussion: The Book of Merlyn.
- poetry-book has filled their contributors positions and introduces them.
- Writer's Knitting Circle
- The group, WriterSecretSanta, asks active group members to comment.
- [An outside dA] Interview with Amberlouie
- WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up
- xMotherMoonx asks "As an author would you prefer to be famous or would you rather have a small fan base that actually enjoys what you read rather than reading because everyone else is reading it too?"
- Scribes-Are-Beckoned conducts an interview with their contest winner, Mr8att3ry.
- Expected and Unexpected Changes from LITplease.
- EmotionalWriting is planning their contest and features their daily poem.
- The Village Bicycle Project
Literature Links [in other languages!]
- LiteraturaBR asks members for their opinions regarding voting. [Portuguese]
- Some announcments and news regarding a new folder from LetraHispana [Spanish]
I am still looking for non-English literature groups, I'd like to keep tabs on them too!
This Week's Group Spotlight
Apologies, but there is no group spotlight this week. Hopefully next week I'll be back on top of things. ♥
Looking for more groups?
leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
Realm-of-Fantasy's list of literature groups[Fantasy, Sci-fi and General]
My journal[recently re-vamped!] has a small list that I've compiled.
If you're still not finding a group you like check out the list of all literature groups on dA: Click here!
Inspiration (Workshops, Prompts and Challenges)
Weekly:
- lacoterie's Weekly Poetry and Prose Prompts
- Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "In the Rain"
- "Clowns", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
- Live-Write-Now's Weekly Theme.
- Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Burn
- Wordsmiths-Guild's various prompts.
- House-of-Playwrights's second February weekly prompt is a Theme/Quote Duo.
- Prompt Eight of lit-lash's weekly prompts has begun.
- "Why do you think people find it necessary to lie to one another?" is Escape-Of-A-Writer's current prompt.
- Conflict is FightToWrite's theme of the week.
- Pyromania is Raininginhawaiipoems' current prompt.
- "Time and Sorrow" is Morbid-Poets’ weekly prompt.
Bi-Weekly:
- Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 38
- Scribblers-Anonymous's prompts: Set 32!
- Bi-Weekly Prompts from theWrittenRevolution.
- "Chilled to the Bone", the bi-weekly prompt from Poets-N-Prose.
- "Senseless words" is Love-4-Dark-Poetry's bi-weekly prompt.
- Walking the Dog, Love-Literature's bi-weekly prompt.
- theWrittenRevolution's prompts.
- "Writing your heart out ", FeatheredWords' bi-weekly prompt.
- dA-lta's current prompt.[February 29th]
- 'Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.' is Written-Imagination's prompt.
- Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letter to a Valentine
Monthly:
- SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
- HammeredPoetry's Prompt #7: Reality Television
- ScreamPrompt #23, February 2012
- The February Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta has begun.
- "Personal Ads" Lit-WIP's January prompt.
- ThePoetryofDA's January Prompt
- Horror-Stories' February Monthly Theme.
- Prompt #10:The chill in my bones. The-Writing-Exchange's monthly prompt.
- Unseen-Writers' Monthly Challenge: January
Workshops and Challenges:
- Forum Challenge- Inanimate Characters
- FFF 4: Glosa Challenge
- Your OC's Story in a 6-Word Story
- Exquisite Corpse Round 4
- A FreeWriters Marathon
- Poets-N-Prose's Workshop / Challenge: Points of View : Jan 2012
- Literature Lesson 1.04
- Vignettophiles' Comment Swap VII[Every 1st and 15th of the month.]
Other:
- Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 3: The Compressed Epic
- MagicalLiterature's Valentines Day Mini-Challenge[February 21st]
- 15-Minutes-of-Fame has begun a new project; Project Frankenstein.
- LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts
- Prompt Project: Prompt One from Mythologue.
- SixWordStories’ Inspiration Project
- A witches market, a prompt from 15-Minutes-of-Fame.
Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:
- Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
- 100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
- full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
- LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
- Project Nine Lives
Lit Contests Galore!
These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.
New Contests:
- Dystopian Fantasy / Government Conspiracy (February 29th)
- Changing History (March 12th)
- #TheWritingHaven's Contest (April 1st)
- Spring Contest (April 10th)
Contests Ending This Week:
- #Apocalypse-writing's Competition (February 20th)
- Valentines Contest [Poetry only; please see link for details] (February 20th)
- Temptation Valentines Contest (February 20th)
- Kick Ass Kick Off Contest [Two part contest; non-fiction only; please see link for details] (February 22nd)
- Raw Horror [Prose only; please see link for details] (February 25th)
- Rewrite Your First Ever Story [Prose only; 3,000 word limit; please see link for details] (February 26th)
- Rose-Shadow Fan Art/Fiction Contest [Please see link for details] (February 28th)
- The End of Times (February 28th)
Please click here for the full list of contests!
There is also a group dedicated to Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
There is also a group dedicated to Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XVIII
- Writers With a Promise - Issue 12
- Friday Night Features XXXV
- Deviant Dossier: IrrevocableFate
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 51
- The Saturday Spotlight : February 18th, 2012
- DLD to DD February 10th, 2012
- Novel Tease Newsletter - Issue 6
- Wonderful critics, wonderful writers 5
- Lit Up! Vol. V
- The Acrostics Series: BornBlitzed
- Demonstrably Deviant: Issue IV
- Notables: alexiscaitlinking
- Lit Fortnightly - 15 February 2012
- Spotlight on Lit, vol 1.2
General Resources
- theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
- 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
- WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
- #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
- #Mythologue's Literary Resources
- #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links
Writing Resources [General]
- Writing Resources for Everyone
- A Quick Guide Index: Writing Tutorials
- 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
- English 101 Index: A Grammar Series
Prose Resources
- ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
- Ten Tips for Writing
- 10 Tips for Novel Writers
- Style vs. Voice - A Guide
- Grammar and Your Story
- Three Act Structure
Poetry Resources
- The Hard Work of Poetry
- Tips For Editing Poetry
- Haiku Theory Part 1
- Poetic Forms
- Poetry Self-Edit Quick Start Guide and Checklist
- "Poeticks: On Imagery" 1 of 3, "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3, and "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3
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
- Character Development: From Beginning to End
- Rehab for Roleplayers
Publishing Resources
- SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
- leoraigarath's Resources on the Side
- Resources for Aspiring Authors
- 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]
- Steampunk Tales
- G.W. Review
- Soundzine
- Fuselit
- The Missing Slate
- SapphireTuesday
- Second Look
- Verandah Literary Journal
- Machine of Death
- Cram Magazine
- Voiceworks
- Shimmer
- dotdotdash Magazine
- Alliterati Magazine
Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- Contributors are still wanted at FightToWrite
- HumanConditions is looking for Lit Staff Volunteers.
- TenderPassion is in need of aCo-Founder and contributors.
- Written-Imagination’s open positions are Help Desk Attendant
- WA-writersblock is in need of a new founder.
- Contributors are needed at We-Write-To-Escape.
- New admins are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
- Gallery moderators are wanted at TheWritersMeow.
- Soul-Poets is looking to fill out their Creative and Networking and Public Relation admin teams.
- Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!
- write-to-live is Submission Processors and Contest Admins.
- Morbid-Poets is looking for a co-founder.
- Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.
- Inspiring-Words is in need of a gallery moderator.
- Scribblers-Anonymous is looking for an affiliates and critics admin.
- LaRevolucionEscrita needs a couple of admins.
- dA-Literature is looking for one admin.
- Adopt-A-Writer is looking for some help.
- Gallery Admin, Talent Scout, Blog Artisan, Affialiate Relations, General Enquiries, Contest, and News Article Feature Managers are writingclub's open positions.
- 2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
- Poets-N-Prose is looking for Contributors, Specialists, and dA members to host Guest (Non-staff) Workshops.
- 1 Prose Administrators is needed at DailyLitDeviations.
- 6 Contributors are the avaliable positions at TheScribblists
- LiteratureforPoints is in need of a chat moderator and contributors.
- Members to host workshops and Contributors are needed at Writers-Workshop
- Critics, admins, and people "interested in helping run and set up events and projects" are needed at devLIT.
- Moderator and Contributor positions are open at TheControversy.
- Poetry-Screams wants some administrators.
- 1 Prompt Admin, 1 Community Liason, 2 TFP Appraises and 3 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
- Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!
- SuperWritersHelp is in need of critics.
- Literature Moderator positions available over at Realm-of-Fantasy.
- 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.
- 35-prompts-challenge is still in need of a founder.
- A critic and an inspirationalist are needed at Wordsmiths-Guild.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Literature Community Relations
ikazon - lightningmonkey's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - January 2012
Januarys's Literature Daily Deviations
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: February
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?
Contacting Me
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:
for letting me help run LITplease's Community Portal and spamming her inbox with countless notes, all while being wonderful.
a LITplease Community Liason and will be helping me with gathering information while being fabulous.
another LITplease Community Liason who will be helping gather even more information and continuing to be awesome.
Checking In
It's been quite a while since my last journal entry, about five years. I hope whoever is reading this knows I've never forgotten anyone and I think of all the friends I made here with such love and joy. I'm not sure how many people still linger on DA, but I hope that if you somehow stumble back to my page you know that I love you and wish you well. There is simply too much to go over for the span of five years, so I'll keep it short and sweet. I love you and I missed you. I don't write quite as much as I used to, but I've started dabbling more often again and was thinking of posting once more. I'm terribly out of practice, but it's something that's always been cathartic so it doesn't matter too much to me how "good" it is. Sometimes you just have to get the feelings out. Anyways, I hope you are having a wonderfully lovely day, my lovelies. How about some questions! What's your current favorite song? A video game you can't stop playing? TV show or movie you wish everyone else would
Renewal
It has been a rough few years for myself and my family. It is strange to think that for once in my adult life that I am legitimately doing well, not pretending or being close but not quite there. Things are almost infinitely better than 6 months ago and, if I'm honest, it feels like that was years ago. DA has always been a home and as I've slowly gotten better I find myself missing it and all the friends I've made more and more. I know I do not elaborate much on my personal life, but perhaps now that so much is behind me I can allow myself to discuss it more. In truth, I'm not even sure where to begin, but updating on what happened in the la
Birthdays and Change
I wanted to thank all the lovelies who wished me happy birthday recently, I read all your comments and it made me extremely happy. ♥ It was nice to hop on and see that I was thought of, I truly appreciate it beyond words.
However, I know have been very absent for a few months now. Things have not be going well in my life for the majority of the year (and if I'm honest the last 2 years) now and I have had to put DA on the back burner. I still find myself coming to the site, reading comments/replies, looking at deviations, but currently I am overwhelmed by everything that I can't bring myself to do much else.
I find myself now on the pr
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