January

CRLit Update - January 2015
Literature DD Roundup - January 2015
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: January

• Fan-Fiction-Tastic News #17 Such fan. Many fiction.
• tWR Interviews: On Writing and tWR Interviews: Prose and Poetry Basics self explanitory.
• Some Lit News in case you're not satisfied with this.
• (January) Literary Almanac Monthly: Volume Ten nifty thing, looks at it.
• CRLiterature Expands to Include Fan Fiction meaning there is Fan-Fictiony stuff there now. It's all good. We love it.
• Literary Justification: Writers R Us Writers are cool, we're also, like, mostly made up of water.
• Bob Hicok's advice to young poets, is what it says it is. Advice. To poets. Young ones.
• January Book Club: DAWN by Octavia E. Butler CRLiterature hosts a monthly book club, it's pretty cool.
• Tips: How to get started with the lit community! if you want to be in the Lit community this is helpful.

• 'Fairy Tale' Contest with fairies, maybe.
• Poetry Workshop: Rhythm + Rhyme for those poetry things mentioned.
• Make Me A Monster
• Critmas- The results Critmas is awesome, it's annual. DO IIIIIIIT.
• Poetry Form: Jabjong a cool form for your eyes to look at.
• ezradeacon's January Contests FTW! is a list of all sorts of contests that happened in January.

• Notes in the Margin? In reference to your own work.
• "How important do you think it is to step outside your comfort zone and write in different genres?" Cross-Genre Writing.
• Pseudo-Official Lit Forum Cock-Measuring Thread, 2015 Edition Every writer has a chicken. Duh. Size doesn't matter, unless you're having a measuring thing.
• Writers conferences? You know, a place for writers to...converse and something. idk
• Picking up a series partway through or "what do I do?! I grabbed a book and it's good, but there are 12 books before it."

February

CRLit Update - February 2015
Literature DD Roundup - February 2015
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: February

• Lit community- what do you really want? and Lit Community: Tell Us What You Really Want!
• Fan-Fiction-Tastic News #18 Much news. Very fiction. Such fan.
• Thank You ShadowedAcolyte for all your work as a Lit CV!
• Harper Lee - An Unexpected Chapter and The History of Songwriting are Art History Project Articles. I know, mega awesome.
• how often do we talk about...the last sentence? Think about it, come back to me, then think about it some more.
• Fifty Shades of Fan Fiction Just roll with it.
• tWR Interviews: To Rhyme Or Not To Rhyme? Hey look, it's a question!
• Jay finds on Wikiquote because writing advice is always nice to read.
• (February) Literary Almanac Monthly: Volume Eleven
• PE: Dos and Don'ts of Literature DDs This is helpful, why are you not clicking the link? I'll wait.
• Feb./Fine Hooks Found on dA/Features You're hooked on me. I know it.

• Writers' Workshop: FOUND POETRY! Found Poetry is actually really cool, you should try it. No really! I'm not an expert, but it's still fun.
• 2015 Lantern Festival for the eastern form poets.
• February Form Fiesta 2015! Forms are totally a fiesta, celebrate. Good times. Come on.
• Lit Forum Mini-Prompt: Compliment/Insult Edition. Prizes? What? You read correctly, tig is in the forums.

• Seven Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding I bet you committed some of them. HEATHEN.
• HOW PUBLISHING ACTUALLY WORKS: 2015 Edition You guys, publishing works. It does. Look at the forum.
• Pen Names  or names that you write under, but usernames don't count.
• Did you learn something from the last thing you read? y u no learn?
• What have you done to avoid circlejerking lately? aka complacency.
• So this Harper Lee chick? yeah, she's doing the book thing I hear.

March

CRLit Update - March 2015
March Literature DD Round Up
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: March

• What we can Learn from Sir Terry
• Worldbuilding and Your Writing
• Writing Words of Wisdom staring a quote from Neil Gaiman.
• Terry Pratchett: The Final Walk With Old Friend RIP.
• Fan-Fiction-Tastic News #19 Fan-fiction, Fan-fiction, where for art thou? OH RIGHT HERE.
• Community Week: On Translating Fiction and The Critique Sandwich Both are good from PE's Community Week during March.
• tWR Interviews: Characters, Imagery and Metaphors and tWR Interviews:Vocabulary, Narrative Voice and POV
• March/More dA Hooks I like/Features
• Throw away your thesaurus, and other gems
• Building Your Vocabulary is important. You need words to write, after all. 
• Revision! is important too! Do you revise? The answer should be a resounding yes.

• NaNo Building Blocks and NaNo Resources
• Found Poetry: How-To #3: The Cento More of the learning thing.
• Between Worlds Contest
• Another NaNo Approaches (Camp NaNo that is.) So much writing, all the writing. Let it consume you.
• Found Poetry: How-To #2: Cut-up/Remix learn something new, it's fun!
• Prompt me bitches send a prompt, write about a prompt, prompts, prompts.

• Literary pet peeves We all have them, we're guilty of them. Writing is so hard. Ugh.
• the antagonists in your stories Balance? Baaaalance it young, padawan.
• Thicker or thinner skins? It takes two to communicate, people.
• The myth of disinterest (In popularity/accolade) For whom do you write? Yourself? Your mom? That puppy over there?
• Found Poetry: ASK ME ANYTHING where you could ask PinkyMcCoversong things about...found poetry!

• Project Educate: Lit Publishing Week
• 10 Reasons to ALWAYS Read Submission Guidelines
• Publishing for the Non-Lit Artist
• Deviants in Print: Dave Rudden
• You've been published, so what?
• The Rejection Project
• We're Not Psychic - Running Sidekick Books
• The In's and Out's of Book covers
• What Is a Chapbook?
• How To get Published 2.0
• Traditional Publishing or Indie Publishing?
• Making the Magazine
• How to Write a Query Letter
• A Quick Guide to Publishing Resources

April

CRLit Update - April 2015
Literature DD Roundup - April 2015
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: April

• Fan-Fiction-Tastic News #20
• Creative Contracts for Dummies I'm a dummy, pick me!
• Back Ups and Back Ups of Back Ups because you need to back everything up like 50 times just to be sure it's backed up. Then you do it again at least 20 more times.
• Community Week: Flash Fiction and Joseph Blake Parker's Writing Tools April's Community Week stuffs.
• The Written Revolution, Interviews On Writing Look so shiny, special.
• Margaret Atwood: Queen Of Devious Ideas Wheeeeee.
• Writing Advice from Ray Bradbury You are always learning, always.
• Thank You Inknalcohol! inknalcohol decided he had to hang up his heart or something. We spamed him with Pi for his retirement pay.
• We Shall Not Forget You, Bark ♥
• April: Some good dA hooks and a few features

• tWR Interviews: Rhetoric Figures in Poetry and Plot Building and Poetic Prose So many interviews, but so full of information. You better learn your things, padawan.
• Wordcloud Contest
• NaPoWriMo 2015 because poetry is nice. More of that too.
• 'Fairy Tale' Contest Winners Winners are winners for a reason. >:V
• Amazing Alphabetic April Also, alliteration!

• What entitles an author to have readers? Quick answer: People don't owe you anything just because you wrote something.
• Can someone be taught how to write? Maybe, they could. Who knows. Or they must get it through transfer it through the dying writers to preserve the writerly force. Voodoo. It's voodoo.
• What questions should writers be asking?
• Misconceptions about writing you know they are there lurking, hiding, waiting. Woooooo.
• So You Want To Do NaPoWriMo? I bet you did. Sneaky little cutie.

May

CRLit Update - May/June 2015
Literature DD Round-Up May 2015
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: May

• May saw the addition of two new Literature CVs! TheMaidenInBlack and LiliWrites They are swell gals. Altogether we (Myself and SingingFlames included) make up the LITeral Angels. We need a stamp. srsly.
• The Tearoom Debates I: Inspiration v. Infringement Is it a fine line? Weigh in if you think isthisthingstillon can handle it. He can. I bet you.
• Tanith Lee, 1947-2015 ♥
• Stuck on what length your piece should be? Try this: Chaptered Prose vs. Stand-Alone Prose
• History of the Book: A Very Brief Introduction Books are really amazing, they have paper. They're also metal as fuck.
• A Field Guide to Modernist Literature Irrelevant to the link: I'd prefer to be paid by the word, I would do all the purple prose. All of it. Pages and pages and pages of it.
• Plot you'll like this one...a lot. Hahahahahahaha.
• tWR Interviews: Fixed Form Poetry Poetry? Oh yesetry. tWR Interviews: On Brevity and tWR Interviews: Chapter or Standalone Prose?

• Wanna prompt? If you answer no, then you're okay, I am not mad. neuro might be though. Prompt Game
• FLASH FICTION ALL THE FLASHING. Flash Fiction Competition
• Deities are powerful, usually. Prose is powerful, usually. Put them together? And add in a contest element? = The Deity Prose Contest
• Writing-Rampage: Super EASY Contest Only because I love easy.
• May Mixup Madness (MMM) 2015 mix it up, yo!
• Awareness of the Arts: Visualize our Dreams I love dreams, they're usually bat-shit crazy.

• Why bother reading? I have people to read for me.
• Words much be chosen carefully. Sometimes less is more, other times, you need to vomit up buckets of words. Brevity - how important is it?
• Why do you read on dA? So I can read about vikings, duh.
• I freak myself out all the time. While writing a scene ...
• NaPo 2015 ReCap In case you're lazy like I am.

June

CRLit Update - May/June 2015
Literature DD Roundup - June 2015
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: June

• The Tearoom Debates III: Critique v Criticism why all the hate? No, it's not hate, it's debate!
• The CVs on DDs: A Group Interview pls read.
• Proposal Call: Project Educate Nonfiction Week You've written non-fic before, don't deny it.
• The Tearoom Debates II: Fanfiction v. Publishing It's always something.
• Fan Fiction Fantasy Gallery was introduced! Cool!
• DA Lit: A Retrospective where you're given stuff that happened since Lit's beginning on DA. Wow am I old? I'm old. Totally old.
• tWR Interviews: What's Your Favourite Genre? Hugs. Obviously. tWR Interviews: Eastern Poetry
• Basically, you're going to get rejected a lot if you submit. Rejection by the Numbers

• Lets Get Ready to FLASH! Just don't leave me disappointed by your sizes. Oh and this: Official FFM Prompt Bank 2015 don't be stingy, make a deposit.
• Flash Fiction Month 2015 = July, but the hype is real. Very real.
• Flash Fiction Month: WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS THIS? Do I even need to explain this one?
• Flash Fiction Day was the 22nd of June! Who knew? I didn't until I was told so. Shows how much I know.
• Dragonboat Renga Race Only the fastest, most furious writers will survive.
• Jubilant Japanese June (JJJ 2015)! RENGA 2.0 All the jubilation.
• Gotta have a place to live, right? Workshop: Planet Building
• Second Round of the Flash Fiction Competition and Third Round annnnd the Last Round = nice stuff.
• Publication Announcement: June 1, 2016  ScreamPrompts is doing a thing! ITS MEGA AWESOME.

• Prompt me Bitches #2 She likes prompts, so do as the lady says and we'll all make it out alive.
• Like it's hard? Rap Isn't Poetry
• What Is Your Favorite Trope? I literally spent an hour on that site. Oops.

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 OH MY GOOD WORD YOU MADE IT THROUGH THIS?! I AM SO PROUD, YOU ARE A TROOPER. (Not a Storm Trooper, you have much better aim.) Either way there was TONS more going on and I couldn't list everything because Sta.sh has a limit or something. idk, it's mean to me. If you're looking to get involved with the Literature Community don't be afraid, there are so many of us and so many different things going on. Find something you like, do it. Prosper.

If you're asking yourself what will happen in the next 6 months, be prepared to be disappointed because I am not Raven and I can not see the future. Or can I? Ha, like I'd tell you because the future is supposed to be a SECRET. However, feel free to send me things you find throughout the rest of the year. Or send me celebrities. Oh yeah...