Love dA Lit: Issue 91

Welcome to the ninety-first 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 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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• The Ladies of Lit Chat event will be held today, August 12th at 8pm EST
• Love-Literature Monthly Literature Feature
• SilverInkblot asks "What do you think of me hosting a contest based on the Color Poem form?"
• My Name is Mary-Sue
• TWG's Featured Deviant of the Month - August 2012
• EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 35! Liedy, missmissyeyes and gummyrabbit
• Author Q & A!
• Mrs-Freestar-Bul asks you to show her some beautiful poems for her next journal.
• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
• For Deviants Who Want Their Novel Published: #2
• Traditional Publishing - The Process
• "How do you use capitalization & punctuation in poetry?", EliteLiterature wants to know.
• Elizabethan-authors’ Word of the Sennight.
• betwixtthepages asks what is your favorite Dystopian novel?
• Some inspiration and encouragement [as well as the need for suggestions] from PoetryToTheMasses
• WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up
• Endorell-Taelos wants to know what your Preferred Novel Reading Medium is.
• Art History Project- September is Literature!

Group News:

• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink would like some prizes for their contest.
• Group news from LiteratureforPoints about their chat event.
• PoetryWritersUnity would like some ideas for their next contest.
• An update about xWritersUtopiax’s Freedom of Speech contest.
• A reminder from Soul-Poets concerning the temporary closure of folders due to maintenance.
• 15-Minutes-of-Fame’s founder will be away until the 13th.
• ScreamPrompts has an updated submission policy.
• The co-founder of SongofthePoets will be away and asks members to hold off on submissions.
• An apology from Masters-of-Poetry concerning expired submissions.
• writersociety updates their August 2012 Point Database and All Time Point Database
• The July Write Off Winner has been revealed.
• Writers4Life has quite a few announcements including the group’s birthday and some publishing opportunities.
• Some news from Calling-All-Poetry.
• write-to-live is temporarily closing all gallery folders.
• A few updates from Scifi-wordsmiths.
• “What should the next workshop be about?" asks Writers-Workshop.
• The group, Poetry-To-The-Masses would like some feedback..
• Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--August Pairs
• The-Creative-Writer is looking for prize donations for their contest.
• Voting for ThePoetryofDA's, contest has begun: poll one and poll two.
• A hello and update from writers-central.
• RawEm0tion updates their Poetry/Prose RPG: Lvl Up and announces the new RawEm0tion Laureate.
• xWritersUtopiax has a new gallery folder for prompts and would like some input on other gallery folder suggestions..
• An update concerning gallery folders from Authors-Club.
• JustKeepWriting has a new contributor.
• The group, Writers-Of-Our-Time, poses a question to their members and updates that they’re close to becoming a super group and would still like donations.
• An update from Scribes-Are-Beckoned
• LOVE-Original-LIT is looking for prizes for their upcoming contest.
• Voting has begun for x-Poetic-Peace-x’s contest.

Literature Links [in other languages!]

• LiteraturaBR has begun their August Contest . [Portuguese]

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

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Writers-Cove is a prompt group that releases a new theme every week. Though a fairly new group Writers-Cove strives to give a variety of different kinds of prompts each week. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins.

LionesseRampant the founder of Writers-Cove, was kind enough to put up with me a second time and answer a few questions regarding the group.


How is Writers-Cove different from the other literature groups on dA?

Well, for one, we are very selective in our submissions to our general poetry and prose folders. We don't want our group to be another 'storage house' for literature. We want extraordinary pieces to be housed in our galleries, and so it shall be. Another thing that we do is a weekly theme. Submissions are accepted for the current theme only, as it is sort of a mini contest: the best written piece is moved to the featured folder, and the author of that piece receives five points.

What caused you to create the group?

I've noticed lately that there are a lot of 'vague' prompt groups out there. I cannot write a poem or prose piece to the word 'adventure;' it's just too broad a topic.

Right now the group has only given five themes, do you have plans to make them more challenging? If not, why?

Yes. For the first few prompts, we planned on easing into the process, but we're going to be 'cracking down hard' this week by giving you a very specific prompt. Good luck

Anything else of note that you would like to share?

Well, there might be a contest in the works, but I'm at a loss of points at this moment. If you want to donate, please donate to LionesseRampant. Thanks

Quick Links:

• Gallery
• Rules[Widget on right-hand side]
• Current Weekly Theme: 5

Looking for more groups?

• leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
• 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. 3

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:

• Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Mephistophelian" [August 12th]
• "So Real it's Surreal", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
• Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Sweetness
• House-of-Playwrights' fifth July weekly prompt is a Series of Images.
• Week 2.99 Prompt of lit-lash's weekly prompts.
• Writers-Together's Wednesday Writing Theme: War, destruction..
• Weekly Spontaneity: 20 from SixWordStories
• WritersAreArtistsToo's Writing Wednesdays Prompt.
• TheWritersMeow's Prompt: "Forgiveness" [August 5th]
• One Word Prompt Thursday: Rush from TheWritingObsession
• Prompt #18: Courage is Heart-of-Poetry's newest weekly prompt. [August 11th]
• Weekly Influence #50 from Escape-Of-A-Writer.
• DeviantLITERATURE's Character Conception Challenge Prompt IV [July 28th]
• Writers-Cove's Weekly Theme 5

Bi-Weekly:

• Bi-Weekly Prompt: July 29, 2012 from theWrittenRevolution.
• "A Trip to India", Love-Literature's bi-weekly prompt.
• Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letters To a Queen.
• PromptMe's Prompt #8
• A Bi-Weekly Prompt from LOVE-Original-LIT [August 1st]
• 'Paradise' is We-Write-To-Escape's fortnightly theme. [July 22nd]
• Penpa's prompt, "Trapped" [August 13th]

Monthly:

• ScreamPrompt #27, August 2012
• LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts #18: True Olympians [August 27th]
• lacoterie's August Prompts [August 25th]
• LiterarySanctuary's July Prompt [July 28th]
• SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
• Horror-Stories' August Monthly Theme.
• MidtownMagic's Monthly Theme: "Fantasy Noir" [August 31st]
• A Monthly Challenge: June from Unseen-Writers
• Shelf-of-Friends' Prompt: June 2012
• 'Silence', Writers-Of-Our-Time's monthly prompt. [August 31st]

Workshops and Challenges:

• Unreliable Narrator Workshop [August 31st]
• FFF 10: Sonnet Challenge
• Critique Challenge [August 13th]
• Write a Review Challenge
• A FreeWriters Marathon [October 31st]
• Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--August Sign Up [Monthly]

Other:

• Challenge #3: A Summer of Love
• Wordsmiths-Guild has a new prompt.
• "What If" prompt from WritersOfTheWorld [September]
• Literature in Use Project [August]
• YouAsTheNarrator's weekly, bi-weekly and monthly prompts.
•   Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
• Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 5: Ghosts
• Betrayal or Abandoned are Inspiring-Words' current prompts.

Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:

• SixWordStories’ Inspiration Project Take III-- July
• Literature Lesson 1.04, Literature Lesson 1.03, Literature Lesson 1.02, Literature Lesson 1.01
• Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
• 100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
• A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
• full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
• LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
• Writers-Universal's Publicity Project

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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:

• 'Escapisim' (August 28th)
• Urban Contest  [Poetry only; please see link for details] (September 9th)
• Write and Revise Contest [Please see link for details] (September 11th)
• 'Dandelion Wine'' (September 30th)
• Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry [Off dA Contest; poetry only please see link for details] (September 30th)
• L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest [Off dA Contest; prose only; please see link for details] (September 30th)
• The Iowa Short Fiction Award [Off dA Contest; prose only; please see link for details] (September 30th)
• Favorite Song Contest (Deadline Unspecified

Contests Ending This Week:

• #Ordinary-Writing's Critique Challenge [Prose only; 2,500 word maximum; please see link for details] (August 13th; August 31st)
• The Opposition Contest [Please see link for details] (August 13th)
• Summer Story Contest [Prose only; please see link for details] (August 15th)
• Hands of Hope [3,000 word prose maximum; 40 line poetry limit; please see link for details] (August 15th)
• 'A Fight to the Death' (August 15th)
• 'RIP Colorado' [Poetry only; please see link for details] (August 15th)
• Time Travel (August 15th)
• =aquadopts's Summer Contest (August 17th)
• Two Prompt Contest (August 17th)
• #TheWritingHaven's Contest (August 19th)
• #AWorldOfFiction's Summer WriMo Contest [Please see link for details] (August 20th)
• "Texture" [Poetry only] (August 20th)

Contest Extensions:

• The Royal Families Story Contest has been extended until September 9th.

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Regular Lit Articles

• Lit Fortnightly - 25 April 2012
• The Lit List: Issue 01
• Lit Up! Vol. V
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXIV
• Writers With a Promise - Issue 15
• Friday Night Features LIX
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 75
• The Saturday Spotlight for August 11th, 2012
• DLD to DD July 27th, 2012
• The Acrostics Series: BornBlitzed
• Name Your Droppings vol. 2
• Demonstrably Deviant: Issue IX
• 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume X
• The Favorites Project #159, #160, #161
• Special Sundaes- Sammur-amat's Sunday Features
• Let's Talk Writing: Issue 7

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
• #SixWordStories Community Happenings
• WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
• #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
• #Mythologue's Literary Resources
• #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links
• Tips for the Messy Writer

Writing Resources [General]

• Writing Resources for Everyone
• Jump Start Your Story
• Guides and Lessons for Effective Writing
• LaMonaca's Writing Guides
• LitResources' folder for Literature Tutorials
• How to Write Fan Fiction - P1
• 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
• Organizing Your Fantasy/Sci-Fi Novel
• 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
• Haiku and Eastern Poetry
• 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
• 9 Editing Tips You (Possibly) Haven't Heard Before
• Writing Useful Critiques
• Prose Critique Basics
• Beta Reading Tutorial
• A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
• Murdering Mary Sue
• Extrasuperfabulous
• Characterization and Names
• Character Development: From Beginning to End
• Describing your Characters
• 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
• What Makes A Good Editor?
• 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.]
• Current 2012 Canadian Magazine Writing Contests
• Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher and they also publish short story collections. Check out their dA: DivertirPublishing
• An Idiot's Guide to Publishing
• An Idiot's Guide to Book Publishing

E-Zines/Magazines

• Harmless [Magazine]
• Steampunk Tales
• G.W. Review
• Fuselit
• The Missing Slate
• Second Look
• Verandah Literary Journal
• Machine of Death
• Cram Magazine
• Voiceworks
• Shimmer
• dotdotdash Magazine
• Alliterati Magazine
• Linear Literary Journal
• Grawlix Poetry E-Zine
• choodaloodaling
• Artsmiths

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• Love-Literature would like some more admins.
• Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!
• A Founder is needed to take over Writers-Extrodinaire
• ItsAllAboutWriting would like a few contributors.
• Critics/Commenters are wanted in the group, Live-Love-Write.
• A co-founder and general admins are needed to help run lit-lash.
• A Sci-Fi Short Story Folder Manager is needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.
• Critics are wanted at CritiqueForPoints.
• Two admin positions are available at TeenagedLiterature.
•   writersociety is in need of a new admin.
• Shelf-of-Friends is looking for a few admins.
• write-to-live is hiring contributors to help with submissions.
• WritingForEveryone still needs a few contributors.
• General Administrators are wanted at Poetry-is-AWESOME.
• writingmadefun would like another admin to help with the group activities.
• Foreign Language Administrator is the current open position at DailyLitDeviations.
• DesperateWriters is hoping for a few new moderators and a co-founder to help out the group.
• The group, Written-Imagination, is looking for a variety of staff members.
• Soul-Poets are looking to fill their contributor positions.
• YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 2 Character Bio Moderators, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.
• WeeklyLitContests would like 1 more contributor.
• ThreeThousandWords is looking for one co-founder and two contributors.
• 2 Community Liasons and 2  Critics are needed over at LITplease.
• SuperWritersHelp is in need of prose and poetry critics.
• WriMo-Writers would like some more admins to help with behind-the-scenes work.
• Motivators, Workshoppers, and Bloggers are needed at FocusOnLit.
• Wannabe-Novelists is looking for some new admins.
• Adopt-A-Writer is looking mentors and mentees.
• Two admin positions need to be filled at WriterSecretSanta.
• EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
• Poetry-Screams wants some administrators.
• WA-writersblock is in need of a new founder.
• New admins are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
• 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
• 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.
• Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!
• 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.
• Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.
• Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

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thorns - thorn's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
JZLobo - J-Z-Belexes' DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - July 2012
July's Literature Daily Deviations

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: August


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:
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 helps gather even more information, all while being awesome.
recently hopped on board and became a Community Liason, so go give her a warm welcome, she's rather amazing.

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