Love dA Lit: Issue 50

Welcome to the fiftieth 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.

Notes: Happy Halloween! NaNoWrimo is nearly upon us, so feel free to send me any NaNoWriMo related suggestions! Even with the changes to news articles and the merger with the journal category, I will continue to keep all current headers and sub-titles as is. I am also aware that about halfway through the bullets and various other emotes revert back to text. I believe there is a limit on how many emotes you may use, so I'm not sure exactly what I can do.

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Official 2011 NaNoWriMo Thread
Chat Tour Schedule
Submissions Closed for Indie-Ventures' current Submission Week.
Sta.sh Writer
"Do you need an extension for the contest?" asks FantasyAuthorsGuild.
Group News and Rules from ThePoetryofDA.
writers-in-progress blogs about NaNoWriMo
theWrittenRevolution's Featured Member XLIV: *aprilwednesday
52 Week Six Word Story Challenge! - Week 43
Rotting Poetry VI, Edgar Allen Poe
DA Lit : Who We Are
A few announcements from WritersOfTheMoon
Lit-WIP's blog: Annoucments and opinions on Sta.sh.
BeccaJS's poll: "Hey Guys, Thank you so much for your DD suggestions of late, but I would like MOAR! "
An Impromptu Interview
SPOTLIGHTWRITERS reminds members it's WotM November: Voting Time
Inspiring-Words' Musically Inspired - Contest Update
The winners of Ordinary-Writing's Halloween Contest are announced.
More updates and features from Written-Imagination.
silverfleckedlullaby's Features
NaNoWriMo Survival Kits
Is-Est-Abyssus announces the winners of their contest.
"What kind of lit magazine opportunities do you look for?" asks Amriah[on behalf of For-Serious.]
Live-Love-Write blogs about some Updates Regarding the Prompt.
EliteLiterature's poll: "Literature of the Week 2 - Voting open 'til Monday!"
NaNoWriMo 2011 at LITplease  as well as Word Wars!
EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week Winner - Mcdermid
Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--November Sign Up
Supreme Mentorship Challenge, hosted by theWrittenRevolution.
Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--October Wrap Up.
NaNoWriMo prep blog from YWP-NaNoWriMo.
devLIT announces the winners of their mini-contest.
Authors-of-Fantasy's Weekly Feature, October 27th-November 3rd.
theWrittenRevolution is working on a Group Overhaul.
Prize Updates from Live-Write-Now's current contest.
An Upcoming Community Project from LaRevolucionEscrita.
LiteraryAbandon posts an update at the approach of NaNoWriMo.
PowerfulWriting is closing most of their folders except The Contest Submissions and the To Be Critiqued folders.
Submissions for wordflight's current contest are now open.
"Should LITplease abandon the Nonfiction prompts?" asks LITplease
#lacoterie Wrap Up - Chat Tour
Noteworthy Literature
SuperWritersHelp's poll: "We are looking for more critics... "
Beta-Readers' October Member Spotlight
LWN Literature Contest
knownames' poll: "NaNoWriMo?!"
An update from knownames.
Straylight's Call for Writers and Artists
A Wrap Up of Written-Imagination's events.
NaNoWriM0 posts and update.
The group, Live-Write-Now, is looking for donations for their current contest.
WritersInk's Weekly Roundup
All Hallow's Tales Literature Contest is now closed!
BlueMoonBird updates their spin-the-bottle shokuga event.
theWrittenRevolution's Featured Member XLIII: ~baretoedgirls
An update from CRLiterature.
What would you like to see happen in the lit community? asks ikazon.
30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume VI


Literature Links [in other languages!]
LiteraturaBR's registration for their current challenge  ends the 31st. [Portuguese]
LetraHispana is hosting a contest [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: "On the Night of Halloween"
"Free Your Soul", 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.
"Last Kiss" 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
Wordsmiths-Guild's various prompts.
Allusion Confusion, EliteLiterature's weekly theme.

Bi-Weekly:
OnlyPoetry's latest set of prompts.
Inked-Page's Bi Weekly Prompt
Inspiring-Words' Bi-Weekly Prompts - 33
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.
[Bullet; Pink] PowerfulWriting's bi-weekly prompt.
[Bullet; Pink] transliterations' Prompt 10: The Beginning! [November 1st]
[New][Bullet; Pink] Literary-Perceptions' Prompt: Halloween

Monthly:
[Bullet; Pink] Unseen-Writers' Monthly Challenge
[Bullet; Pink] The October Monthly Theme of WriterSecretSanta.
[Bullet; Pink] WritersOfToday's Monthly Prompt
[Bullet; Pink] SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts and Visual Stories Prompts
[Bullet; Pink] "Safe", the monthly prompt at OneWordPrompt.
[Bullet; Pink] WriMo-Writers's Prompt for the Month of September


Other:
[Bullet; Pink] BlueMoonBird's newest challenge, Spin-the-bottle shokuga time.
[Bullet; Pink] Exquisite Corpse Round 3
[Bullet; Pink] LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
[Bullet; Pink] Creepy Hotel and Urn and Ashes, Lit-WIP's prompts. [December 1st]
[Bullet; Pink] Rhyme-and-Reason's Autumn Prompt 2011
[Bullet; Pink] By The Stream Of Their Conscious [October 30th]
[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





DALiteratureContests a brand new group designed to list all sort of various Literature Cotnests that are going aroudn on dA. Though they're just starting out they already have an impressive list of contests! Learn more about this group by clicking here!


Quick Links:
[Bullet; Pink] Purpose and Function of the Group
[Bullet; Pink] Contest List[Widget on the left-hand side of the page]



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!]Halloween Contest (October 30th)
[Star!]All-Hallows-Even Contest (Short stories; 3,000 word limit; please see link for details] (October 30th)
[Star!]Tales of Terror and/or Horror [1,500 word minimum and a 3,000 word limit; please see link for details] (October 31st)
[Star!]Aki (秋) Saijiki Contest [Poetry only, must include kigo. Please see link for details.] (October 31st)
[Star!]Autumn Contest (October 31st)
[Star!]Imagination-Flow Contest (October 31st)
[Star!]#FantasyAuthorsGuild's Halloween Contest (October 31st)
[Star!]#Writer-Promotion's Halloween Contest (October 31st)
[Star!]#knownames Halloween Contest [1,500 word limit for prose; please see link for details] (October 31st)
[Star!]Ye Olde Halloween Contest [1,000 word prose limit; please see link for details] (October 31st)
[New][Star!]Across the Wavering Landscape Contest (November 1st)
[New][Star!]'Declined' [Please see link for details] (November 1st)
[New][Star!]Hunters-Moon-12's Contest (November 1st)
[New][Star!]Fear (November 1st)
[New][Star!]The DarkElements during Halloween (November 1st)
[New][Star!]Be Different (November 6th)
[New][Star!]All Around Art Contest (November 7th, November 10th)








Regular Lit News Articles
[Bullet; Pink] LitBits - vol.VIII
[Bullet; Pink] The Ladies of Lit: Volume XIV
[Bullet; Pink] Darkest Corners LIT 15 - Horror Literature
[Bullet; Pink] Useful Writing Blogs #5: Wordplay
[New][Bullet; Pink] Writers With a Promise - Issue 11
[New][Bullet; Pink] Friday Night Features XX
[Bullet; Pink] Deviant Dossier: IrrevocableFate
[Bullet; Pink] Wonderful critics, wonderful writers #4
[New][Bullet; Pink] PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 35
[Bullet; Pink] A Little Birdie Told Me...Vol. IV
[New][Bullet; Pink] The Saturday Spotlight
[New][Bullet; Pink] DLD to DD October 28th, 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
[New][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
[Bullet; Pink] Poetry Self-Edit Quick Start Guide and Checklist

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] SuperWritersHelp is in dire need of critics.

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

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

[Point Right] 1 Prose Administrator is needed at DailyLitDeviations.

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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
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.