Love dA Lit: Issue 138

Welcome to the one-hundred thirty-eighth 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.

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• Do you know what a DD is?
• Forum Discussion: Avoiding the rut
• Poets-and-Warriors's Weekly Feature
• ITU Feature 24 - September 13th, 2013
• Update on Me a journal from out Fan-Fiction CV, SingingFlames, about her plans.
• Undiscovered Weekly: Literature
• Nichrysalis asks " Have you ever created your own poetry form? If so, what is the motif of the form and have others besides yourself used it?"
• Some helpful outside dA articles from raspil: Basic Plot Structure - The Five Plotting Moments That Matter and 3 Writing Rules that Can Derail Your Story
• Artists Toolbox: Scrivener
• "What do you think about numberless book chapters?" asks QuiEstInLiteris.
• WritersInk's Weekly Round-Up
• Unappreciated Works Feature #8
• Forum Discussion: Fantasy Literature Clichés
• Weekly Selection #22
• betwixtthepages has revealed the DLD Suggestion Contest Winners!
• dA Roadtrip with *bloodawni

Group News

• PoetryVSTheWorld's September Tourney - Green Round is open.
• Another update from Adopt-A-Writer concerning pairings.
• Check up time from Writers4Life.
• September Update the Second from SuperWritersHelp
• StoriesAndPoemsClub announces their competition results.
• Group Chat? Novels-Only is preparing just that.
• SeductiveInkWell's Bi-Weekly Contest Winners have been announced.
• LiteratureJunkies reminds members to vot to break the tie.
• Some Group Affiliate announcements from TheBackOfTheBook
• Activity, Submissions, Etcetera is Masters-of-Poetry's latest journal.
• An update from Short-Stories.
• An apolgoy and the welcoming of a new admin from We-Poets.
• Our Poet of the Month: September and Member DD & DLD Feature: 24th August~ 13th Sep from PoeticalCondition
• FlashFictionLives shares an off-dA link with their members
• EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 88! ~momo-madness, ~colbalt-rain and ~NocturneJewel and their poll: " How do you define experimental literature/writing?"
• A Group Update and Welcomes some new members from Apocalypse-writing
• NaNoWriMo-MLP posts an "excerpt from what some might call the NaNoWriMo Bible" No Plot? No Problem
• Persistent-Practice's been busy: Motivation Monday 14, Twosome Tuesday 14, WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday, Thoughtful Thursday 14, Famous Advice Friday, and Spotlight Saturday 14

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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. 5

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:

• "A Walk in the Park" from Apocalypse-writing. [September 8th]
• TheWritersMeow believes its Time for Crime! with their newest prompt. [September 8th]
• House-of-Playwrights's Weekly-ish Prompt [September 14th]
• Multhaiku's weekly prompts: Haibun and Historical [September 15th]
• "Window " is Live-Love-Write's weekly writing prompt. [September 20th]
• CRLiterature's FotoFriday: The Dead End [September]
• Prompt-Bunnies posts their newest prompt, "Sunbaked brain"
• Theme of the Week: Argument from Unseen-Writers
• Weekly Spontaneity: 75 from SixWordStories
• "It came down to..." is Writers-Extrodinaire's newest prompt.
• Glory-Be-Project's Mid-Week Inspirations: Installment 2
• Want a Flash Fiction Prompt? TheWritingHaven has one.

Bi-Weekly:

• theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly prompt: August 29, 2013 [September 11th]
• The Prompt Pool from PoeticalCondition [September 16th]
• ITU Fortnightly Prompt 5 [September 23rd]
• #SixWordStories' Bi-Weekly Prompt [September 25th]
• Prompt #3 and #4 from OurProse.

Monthly:

• A-challenge-to-write has a September Challenge: Lets get loopy! [September 27th]
• ScreamPrompt #39, September 2013 [September 30th]
• Send a Sonnet September is ProjectDFC's monthly challenge. [October 1st]
• Monthly Challenges from LitGuildUK [October 13th]
• formfindsfunction's latest prompt: FFF 12: form creation challenge [October 31st]
• skinnywords has their monthly prompt 5 posted.

Other:

• DALiteratureContests's Prompt List was Last Updated: September 2013 23:45 EDT [Various Group's Prompts Listed]
• Literature Critique Challenge
• musical inspiration from theScienceofPoetry
• How Far I've Come: Writing Challenge!

Ongoing Challenges [No Deadline]:

• 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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These include contests that are purely Literature based and those that have other categories as well, but still accept Literature.

New Contests:

• #Bright-Poets' Poetry Contest #4 [8 line minimum; 28 maximum] (September 30th)
• Morning Contest [No specified limit, but must be short] (October 12th)
• Suicide Prevention Contest [Please see link for details] (October 14th)

Contests Ending This Week:

• Left-Handedness ~ Think Differently! Contest [300 word maximum] (September 15th)
• Dimension 258 Contest [300 word minimum; 3,000 word maximum] (September 15th)
• #The-Black-Hole's Contest (September 20th)
• Autumn/Fall Contest [Prose Only; 2,500 word maximum] (September 23rd)

Contest Extensions:

None this week!

• The September, October, and No Deadline contest journals from DALiteratureContests have been updated!
• Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.

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Regular Lit Articles

• Fantastic Feature Tuesday #49
• Friday Night Features CXV
• The Saturday Spotlight for September 14th, 2013
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 130
• A Call to Conversation (28)--~ithaswhatitisnt
• The Indie Pen Dance - Issue 4 - Robert Loyd Watson
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXXV
• Literary Compass - Vol. 11
• dAuthors Volume V: The Chronicles of Alice
• 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XVI
• Lit. Daily Pick Volume 8: August 2013

General Resources

• theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
• LadyLincoln's Journal
• SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
• 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

Recently Added/Updated Resources

• A Guide to Writing Combat-Related Mental Illness

Looking for the rest of the resources? Go to the Community portal, below!

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• We-Poets, is looking for more admins
• Want to help out at Poetry-Magnet? They're looking for contributors.
• Moderators are needed at Literature-Series.
• SPOTLIGHTWRITERS is looking for some contributors to help approve submissions
• Writers--club is Seeking Critics
• 2 Poetry, 2 Prose and 1 General Administrator are the open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
• Some admins are wanted to help out at Adopt-A-Writer.
• Poetry and Prose Critics are needed at SuperWritersHelp.
• Glory-Be-Project would like some new contributors.
• ink-slingers is looking for admins.
• Contributors are wanted at Soul-Poets
• Moderators are needed in the group, FantasyAuthorsGuild
• 2 Affiliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
• Critics, "At the moment poetry specifically, but prose is always welcome as that folder fills fast. If you can do both you're awesome.Requirements: At least one critique per month. May submit own work for critique by other critics. - GrammarNaziCritiques
• Love-4-Dark-Poetry is looking for someone to "assume the group and give all involved" attention.
•  Contibutor and Co-Founder positions are open at Sacred-Literature.
• Authors-Club would like to hire some admins.
• Story Scouts and general helpers are LiteraryCompass's current open positions.
• FantasyLiterature would like another admin 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.
• FreeVersePoetry is hiring two critics.
• 1 Community Liaison and 2 Critics are needed over at LITplease.

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BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype's DD Suggestion Guidelines
Nichrysalis - NicSwaner's DD Suggestion Guidelines
inknalcohol - GrimFace242's DD Suggestion Guidelines
DorianHarper - star-blazer's DD Suggestion Guidelines
SingingFlames - SingingFlames's DD Suggestion Guidelines [ Fan Fiction ONLY.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - September 2013
Literature DD Roundup- August 2013

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: September

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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Hugs, love and thanks to:
, and my favoritest LITplease Community Liaisons.
for letting me run LITplease’s Community Portal.

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