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Welcome to the one-hundred twenty-seventh 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 or project for two weeks. 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.
Note: Happy Mother's Day.
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Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Group News
Literature Links [in other languages!]
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No group spotlight this week, instead tell me your favorite group on dA!
Looking for more groups?
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:
Bi-Weekly:
Monthly:
Other:
Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:
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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:
Contests Ending This Week:
Contest Extensions:
Here is my full list of contests!
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Regular Lit Articles
General Resources
Writing Resources [General]
Prose Resources
Poetry Resources
Critiquing and Miscellaneous Resources
Publishing Resources
E-Zines/Magazines
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BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Nichrysalis - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines
JZLobo - JZLobo's DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - May 2013
Literature DD Roundup April 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: May
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:
, and my favoritest LITplease Community Liaisons.
for letting me run LITplease’s Community Portal.
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Note: Happy Mother's Day.
LITplease's Community Portal
A Smattering of Lit News
Navigation
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
Literature Links
- LadyLincoln will be hosting a special critique session on May 26th at 7pm EST
- Showcase 006
- *imaginative-lioness's NaPoWriMo: Feature Three
- Feature Friday: Edition 2
- NaPoWriMo Feature #1
- On the Subject of Literature Daily Deviations... (Please share your thoughts and opinions!)
- " What are your thoughts on found poetry?" share them with glossolalias.
- Brevity Pays: Announcing the Winners!
- Screen Play Tips/Hints 1
- Forum Game: Five Sentence Stories
- Writing with Autism: Interview with Aillin1
- Forum Discussion: Poetry Clichés
- Blue Notebook Giveaway
- Nichrysalis asks "The most uplifting piece of writing you've read lately was?" and "Which of the following tends to inspire the most art or writing from you? What was the dream about?"
- Undiscovered Weekly: Literature
- Wednesday Wow - Feature #1
- " Where do you get your inspiration? (Please comment!)" asks MotleyDreams
- The Ladies of Lit: Listing of Lovelies
- Results of the Awakening/Asleepening Contest!
- Coming Up On A Skimpy Contest..., MotleyDreams is looking for prize donations!
- The Monday News 1st Edition
- This here is mah pimp stick
- This is Mah Other Pimp Stick
- Another Giveaway - In the Shadow of the Mountains
- betwixtthepages needs more deviants to interview and feature for [her article] A Call to Conversation.
- Power of an Outline
- WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up
- Prose enthusiasts and experts wanted!
- Send Nichrysalis spoken word DD suggestions.
- Madefire and Literature: Interview with Liam Sharp
Group News
- Some news and updates from LivingLiterature
- ThePoetryofDA has updated their Group News and Rules journal.
- An update from Critical-Fame-Poetry.
- Teenage-Writers has an "Exciting Project Idea For Writers And Artists"
- PoetryVSTheWorld now has a prose folder and voting for their contest has begun.
- "You may have noticed" is an update from Another-Poetry-Group
- What's in a Nom, is House-of-Playwrights's latest journal.
- TheWritersWareHouse wants to know "Which deviation demonstrates the 'Infinite' Prompt Best?"
- Live-Love-Write's poetry contest is currently in the judging phase.
- Updates from Heart-of-Poetry
- The-Creative-Writer is looking for prizes for their contest.
- NaPoWriMo is looking for a bit of feedback about the group.
- A simple, quick and easy question from Authors-Club.
- Apocalypse-writing posts a variety of journals: What would be your Apocalypse Soundtrack?, Affiliate Updates, and an informative journal about Critique/Constructive Comments
- A general apology from ItsAllAboutWriting's founder.
- A call for donations from Calling-All-Poetry.
- The fold settings at Painted-From-Words's have been adjusted.
- The group, Fiction-Writers, has a new contributor and starts up a discussion.
- Kakikotoba's Promotional advertisements for your writing needs
- EliteLiterature's poll: " In your opinion, are mind-altering agents (such as drugs) conducive to being creative?"
Literature Links [in other languages!]
- NotreForteresseBrule's INTERVIEW XIV - ANKERSTILTE. [French]
- LetraHispana's challenge is now closed. [Spanish]
- A reminder from ArteScritta that voting is open until April 30th. [Italian]
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Group Spotlight
No group spotlight this week, instead tell me your favorite group on dA!
Looking for more groups?
- leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
- FanaticalPublishing lists a wide variety of literature groups.
- 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. 4
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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Inspiration (Workshops, Prompts and Challenges)
Weekly:
- "Home" from Apocalypse-writing. [May 12th]
- May 6th Prompt from Prompt-Bunnies. [May 12th]
- "I Start My Day", the latest weekly prompt from TheWritersMeow [May 13th]
- TheWritersWareHouse's weekly prompt is a deviation. [May 15th]
- OfSweetSerendipity's Prompts #5 [May 19th]
- There is a new Writing Prompt from Live-Love-Write. [May 19th]
- Prompt #7 from TheSpokenTruth [May 19th]
- Unseen-Writers's Theme of the Week: Butterfly
- Two member suggested prompts are Poem-forthe-poemless' eighteenth weekly prompts.
- Weekly Spontaneity: 57 from SixWordStories
- A Weekly Prompt from Writers-Extrodinaire
- skinnywords posts their April Prompt Four
Bi-Weekly:
- theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly Prompt: April 29, 2013 [May 12th]
- Sports is Wordspill-Central's third prompt. [May 13th]
- FotoFriday: Flight [May 17th]
- "The Prompt Pool" from PoeticalCondition. [May 20th]
- TheMarmaladeTree's Week Six prompts.
- Tragedy is Authors-Academy's new prompt.
Monthly:
- Letters-To-Myself's April Prompt: Dear You. [April 30th]
- Feedback Pack--May Sign Up [May 1st]
- SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts [May 20th]
- May - Poetry Forms Challenge [May 25th]
- ScreamPrompt #35, May 2013 [May 31st]
- Crowns-of-Sonnets's May Prompt: Ekphrastic Poetry [May 31st]
- TheMarmaladeTree's monthly 100-Prompt Challenge: May [May 31st]
- Literary-Limits's May prompt is up. [May 31st]
- Sacred-Literature's monthly prompt is "Write a poem about Night-time."
Other:
- Love-Literature's weekly and monthly prompts.
- Poetry Prompts courtesy of CrumpetsHarvey.
- Another-Poetry-Group is hosting a 10 Minute Poetry Raw Challenge.
- "Energy" is TheCritiquables's prompt.
- "From the Shadows, You Hear a Voice..." is MidtownMagic's latest prompt.
Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:
- The group, LiteratureJunkies has issued a Smell Story Challenge
- Writing prompts from dA-Literature
- A 50 Theme Challenge from Authors-Academy
- A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
- full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
- 100 Poem Topics from Wordsmiths-Guild
- LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
- Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
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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:
- "If You Had to Walk in my Shoes" [Poetry Only] (June 1st)
- Romanticize Daily Life [Poetry Only] (June 1st)
- Fairytale Contest [5 page limit; please see link for details] (June 8th)
- #Heart-of-Poetry's Contest [10 word maximum; please see link for details] (June 30th)
- In Cahoots Collaboration Contest (September 1st) [Off dA Contest]
- #Fiction-Writers's Contest (Deadline Unspecified)
Contests Ending This Week:
- Underwater Life Contest (May 12th)
- Friendship Contest (May 15th)
- Spring Contest [Prose only] (May 15th)
- Pickergill and Audlin's Steampunk Extravaganza [Prose only; 1,500 word maximum] (May 18th)
- #TheMarmaladeTree's May Contest (May 18th)
- The Boneyard [2,500 word maximum] (May 19th)
- Blossoming Branches Contest (May 20th)
- "Memories" [Prose only; 2,000 word maximum] (May 20th)
Contest Extensions:
- LiteratureJunkies's contest now has a deadline: Character Contest (May 30th)
- mirz333's Valentine's Contest has been extended until May 31st
Menagerie of Literature Contests: Updated 5/27 Literature Contests and Contests That Accept Literature!
New Contests: 3
Last Updated: May 27th
Last Time Posted: May 27th
Don't forget this exists, I hit the "notify your watchers" around every 3 months so you don't have any excuse. Now you can get straight to work on those contest entries.
Deadlines:
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Critique Contests | Unspecified
Space saving is fun.
January
February
March
April
May
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Here is my full list of contests!
- There is also a group dedicated to listing Literature contests around dA, DALiteratureContests, if you're still looking for more contests!
- Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.
- #Love-Literature Loves Contests
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Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXXI
- Literary Compass - Vol. 8
- dAuthors Volume I : Reaping of the Wicked
- The Indie Pen Dance - Issue 2 - Ronald Ray
- A Call to Conversation (14)-- *SilverWynd
- Be A Critic Volume 13
- Fantastic Feature Tuesday #41
- Friday Night Features XCVIII
- Fabulous Friday Feature 29
- The Saturday Spotlight for May 11th, 2013
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 114
- Sundae Treat- Sammur-amat's Sunday Feature
- DLD to DD March 12th, 2013
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XV
- Lit Daily Pick Volume 4: April 2013
- Let's Talk Writing: Issue 16
- Communal Karma #2
- Group Therapy : Literature
- The E-Literature Catalog - Science Fiction
General Resources
- theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
- LadyLincoln's Journal
- #PoeticalCondition's Community Update III
- #FreeVersePoetry's Community Updates
- Happenings in the Literature Community
- lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
- julietcaesar's List of Useful Writing Blogs
- WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
- #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
- #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links
- Tips for the Messy Writer
- Writing Tips, Finding A Muse
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
- illuminara's Writing Guides
- The Ultimate Writing Guide
- OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
- English 101 Index: A Grammar Series
- The Basics of Comma Usage
- Proofreading Tips #2 Semicolon Conjunctive Adverbs
- How to Write Fan Fiction - Part 1 and Part 2
- How to Write Euphonically
- Writing Tutorial: Dialogue
- yWriter5 Word Processor [Off dA Link]
Prose Resources
- ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
- Ten Tips for Writing
- 10 Quick Tips: Prose
- 10 Tips for Novel Writers
- Back-To-Basics Screenwriting With Snappy
- Organizing Your Fantasy/Sci-Fi Novel
- How to Write a Romance
- 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
- "On Writing Love Poetry
- "Poeticks: On Imagery" 1 of 3, "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3, and "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3
- 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
- 9 Editing Tips You (Possibly) Haven't Heard Before
- Writing Useful Critiques
- Prose Critique Basics
- Beta Reading Tutorial
- Murdering Mary Sue
- Extrasuperfabulous
- Writer Notes - Characters
- Characterization and Names
- Describing your Characters
- A Writer's Guide: Believable Characters
- A Guide to Character Sheets
- Rehab for Roleplayers
Publishing Resources
- SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
- Writing Opportunities (Publishing)
- 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?
- 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
- G.W. Review
- Fuselit
- The Missing Slate / themissingslate
- Machine of Death
- Cram Magazine
- Voiceworks
- Shimmer
- Alliterati Magazine
- Linear Literary Journal
- choodaloodaling
- Artsmiths
- Chautauqua Literary Journal
- Pocket Thoughts
- Quantum Fairy Tales
- Asymptote Journal
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Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- Contributors are needed over at LivingLiterature.
- Writers--club is looking for critics.
- A Contest Creator & Prizes Provider is needed at the group Written-Imagination
- Story Scouts and general helpers are LiteraryCompass's current open positions.
- FantasyLiterature would like another to help with upcoming projects.
- RomanceforEveryone would like Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Manager, Bi-Weekly Blog Feature Helpers, Resources Director, Critique Approvers, and some General Administrators.
- A new, active founder to take over fortheblueskies is wanted or the group will close.
- Write2liveCancerFree would like some help.
- FreeVersePoetry is hiring two critics.
- knownames is looking for a blogger.
- A founder is needed to take over FlashFictionLives or it will be shut down.
- Contributors to help keep things running smoothly in LiterallyUnknown's backroom are wanted.
- Poem-forthe-poemless is looking for someone to critique their weekly prompt submissions.
- SixWordStories has put out a Call for Project Managers.
- PoeticalCondition is hiring critics.
- Various gallery moderators and some Co-Founders are need at Inspiring-Words.
- One contributor is LiteratureforPoints's current open position.
- One Contributor is wanted at Sacred-Literature.
- 2 Poetry, 2 Prose and 1 Foreign Language Admin are the open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
- Creative-Writers is looking for an admin to help run the group.
- A Contributor to help out the group, Literary-Perceptions is wanted.
- FictionWriters101 needs another a co-founder.
- Critics are wanted in the group, GrammarNaziCritiques
- JustKeepWriting is looking to find someone to post their Weekly Selections feature.
- On-going admin positions are currently available at NaHaiWriMo
- Some admins are wanted to help with the group, WritersOfTheWorld
- Tutorial and motivational article writes are wanted at writeaway.
- One co-founder is wanted to help keep the group running smoothly at Authors-Academy
- A founder is needed at the group, BleedingHeartsPoetry.
- devLIT is looking for some extra help around the group.
- Two Match Makers are Beta-Readers' current open positions.
- 1 Community Liaison and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.
- LOVE-Original-LIT is in need of Prose and Poetry admins as well as a judge for group hosted contests.
- 2 assistants, prize commissioners, 1 News crew, and critics are APictureToA1000Words’s current admin vacancies.
- 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
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Literature Community Relations
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Nichrysalis - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines
JZLobo - JZLobo's DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!
#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - May 2013
Literature DD Roundup April 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: May
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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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:
, and my favoritest LITplease Community Liaisons.
for letting me run LITplease’s Community Portal.
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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
Love DA Lit: Issue 292
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