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Welcome to the one-hundred forty-third 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.
Group News
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Unseen-Writers isn't kidding around. They're a large group, but are consistent on posting their "Theme of the Week" to help you get those creative juices boiling over. The group is mainly about sharing your work with your fellow writers. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins.
Quick Links:
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:
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Regular Lit Articles
General Resources
Recently Added/Updated Resources
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BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype'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 - The Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - October 2013
Literature DD Roundup - September 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: October
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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Unseen-Writers is the bi-weekly spotlighted group!
LITplease's Community Portal
Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin Positions
Literature Community Relations | Contacting Me
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
- Meet 'N Greet Chat With the Lit CVs
- There are still things for you to signup for at ArtHistoryProject. [That means you literature dears!]
- Round 2, THE EPIC AUTHOR OFF
- Love-Literature - Round-up - September
- "Is writing 50K words in a month for three different projects still "winning" the NaNoWriMo challenge?" asks MotleyDreams
- ShadowedAcolyte's poll: CRLiterature's FotoFriday reboot is not getting the kind of attention/action it deserves. I urge you to participate in the CURRENT FOTO, which was selected by yours truly.
- "Which of the following is the correct way to enter the All Hallow's Tales contest?" asks Memnalar.
- Only 2 Weeks Left to enter the 5th Poetry Screams Prompt Contest!
- Nichrysalis has a few polls: " Write a horrorku (horror + haiku) using events from your day. Make it as scary as you'd like. and That feeling you get when you realize you're writing something 'greater' than usual. Are you working on such a piece of writing at the moment?"
- Composing Curiosity (Issue 1)
- WritersInk's Weekly Round-up
- "We've got a PE week at projecteducate coming up on Poetry Basics! What topics would you like to see covered?"
- NaNo is Around the Corner
Group News
- An update about their questionnaire from Writing-Commissions
- poetry-book's Scratch That 2.0 Audition Round has just 12 days left.
- Literature Game is write-to-live's latest journal update.
- knownames will be hosting a word wars event for their members
- WritersInk's poll: "dAmnTaboo would like to host a tournament Taboo game with us, to do this we need to know what times are suitable for you to join a chat! In GMT, please respond."
- A hello from Poetry-Is-Our-Love
- theWrittenRevolution's Writers of the Revolution: October 19, 2013
- The-Life-of-Words announces their contest winners.
- Flash Fan Fiction Friday 10/18/13 from LiteraryFanFiction.
- EliteLiterature's lit of the Week 93! Blacksand459, your-methamphetamine and fadingreverie
- A reminder from SPOTLIGHTWRITERS
- Songtober! and Info About Contest 11! and Feature (1) - thegirlfromindonesia from PoetryVSTheWorld.
- FreeVersePoetry posts some affiliate updates.
- My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink reminds members there are less than 5 days left of the contest.
- Run You Clever Boy is Short-Stories's latest update.
- Writers--club announces their Confessions of a King Contest Winners and posts a bit about NaNoWriMo
- Due to the founder deactivating, the group, Prompt-Bunnies will be closing.
- Group News and Rules and a poll: Who wants to do a secret santa challenge for the holidays?" from ThePoetryofDA.
- A bit of an update from Love-Literature.
- There has been an important update to LOVE-Original-LIT's Halloween Contest.
- FreePoetSociety has Updates, updates, updates!
- Some updates and changes and an update to their CR - Comments for Comments activity. Both from LiteraryMovement
- Bright-Poets reminds members about their contest.
- PoeticalCondition's "Our Poet of the Month: October"
- An update from Learn2Crit-Lit.
- Snurtle - a Snail and Turtle - slowly slides is Adopt-A-Writer's latest journal regarding pairings.
- As always Persistent-Practice's plethora of journals: Showcase Sunday 18, Motivation Monday 19, October 14, Twosome Tuesday 19, October 15, WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday 19, October 16, Thoughtful Thursday 19, October 17, Famous Advice Friday 19, October 18, and Spotlight Saturday 19, October 19.
- We-Poets is now accepting submissions to their critique folder.
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Unseen-Writers isn't kidding around. They're a large group, but are consistent on posting their "Theme of the Week" to help you get those creative juices boiling over. The group is mainly about sharing your work with your fellow writers. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins.
Quick Links:
- Gallery
- Rules and FAQ [Widget on the left-hand side.]
- Current Theme of the Week
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. 6
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:
- House-of-Playwrights's Weekly-ish Prompt [October 19th]
- "Writing Prompts from Live-Love-Write. [October 30th]
- "Suspense" is the "4F" promt over at LiteraryFanFiction
- Glory-Be-Project's Mid-Week Inspirations: Installment 5
- Weekly Spontaneity: 80 from SixWordStories
- Theme of the Week: Zombie from Unseen-Writers
- PoetryWithAVoice has a new weekly prompt.
- "Somewhere else" is Writers-Extrodinaire's newest prompt.
- Writing Challenge 001 - Week 003 from LitGuildUK
- Want a Flash Fiction Prompt? TheWritingHaven has one.
Bi-Weekly:
- theWrittenRevolution's bi-weekly prompt for October 7th [October 21st]
- #SixWordStories' Bi-Weekly Prompt [October 23rd]
- Versicolor Project [October 27th]
- Foto Friday: Fire Circle from CRLiterature [October 31st]
- Prompt #3 and #4 from OurProse.
Monthly:
- A-challenge-to-write's October Challenge is "Space" [October 25th]
- Letters to the end of a Season [October 30th]
- formfindsfunction's latest prompt: FFF 12: form creation challenge [October 31st]
- LiteraryMovement's Activity Comments For Comments [October 31st]
- skinnywords has their monthly prompt 7 posted.
- October is for HorrorKu at Multhaiku
- lacoterie's October Prompts
- WritersOfTheWorld's September Activity: Dialogue
Other:
- Self-Love Activity from KnightsOfRomance [November 9th]
- prompt 16 October 2013 from FlashFictionLives
- Literature Critique Challenge
- OfSweetSerendipity's Prompts #8
- A quote, "Art is a lie that tells the truth", is Ecrit-de-la-poesie's prompt.
- Write a paradelle. Just do it. Do it now.
- Writing-Commissions's Writing Challenge #3
- DALiteratureContests's Prompt List was Last Updated: September 2013 23:45 EDT [Various Group's Prompts Listed]
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
- musical inspiration from theScienceofPoetry
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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:
- "Face Your Fears" (November 1st)
- ChasingInk's Contest [Poetry Only] (November 5th)
- Free Verse Poetry [Poetry Only] (December 1st)
Contests Ending This Week:
- Anthro Antics Literature Contest [3,000 word maximum for Prose; 50 line limit for Poetry] (October 19th)
- All Hallow's Tales Prose Contest: FRANKENTALES [Prose only; 3,000 word maximum] (October 22nd)
- My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink Contest [Poetry Only] (October 22nd)
- Anagram Contest [3,000 word maximum] (October 25th)
- Voodoo Contest [50 word minimum; 5,000 maximum](October 27th)
- #PVSTW - Songtober (October 27th)
Contest Extensions:
- None this week! ♥
- The September, October, and No Deadline contest journals from DALiteratureContests have been updated!
- ezradeacon has compiled a nice spooky, Halloween Contest List!
- Writers-and-Editors has their own list of Literature contests.
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Resources
Regular Lit Articles
- Fantastic Feature Tuesday #53
- Friday Night Features CXX
- Let's Talk Writing: Issue 21
- The Saturday Spotlight for October 19th, 2013
- Saturday Feature #12
- (11) handpicked: coffee or tea?
- PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 135
- DLD to DD for October 15th, 2013
- A Call to Conversation (28)--~ithaswhatitisnt
- The Indie Pen Dance - Issue 7 - Tory Steller
- The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXXV
- Literary Compass - Vol. 11
- dAuthors Volume VI : The Chronicles of Loreithia
- 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XVI
- Lit. Daily Pick Volume 9: September 2013
General Resources
- theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
- LadyLincoln's Journal
- SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
- ApocaLit Fridays: Issue #13
- Happenings in the Literature Community
- LITany of Resources - Updated 12 October 2013
- 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
- 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
- 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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Looking to help out the Lit Community?
- Love-Literature would like some admins.
- Administrator Positions are Open at Prosepoetry-Elegance.
- theWrittenRevolution wants YOU to apply for an admin position.
- PoeticalCondition is hiring a Prompt Blogger.
- A call out for some new admins has been put out by Letters-To-Myself.
- Project Managed and Contest Manager are the open positions at SixWordStories.
- 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
- 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.
- 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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Literature Community Relations
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
neurotype-on-discord - neurotype'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 - The Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - October 2013
Literature DD Roundup - September 2013
Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Literature Forum Rules
Monthly Literature Critique Thread: October
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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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
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Navigation
Literature Links | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources
Literature Community Relations | Contact Me
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Welcome to the two-hundred ninety-first issue of Love DA Lit! Every Sunday this article aims to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, workshops, and contests. 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.
Navigation
Literature Links | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges
Literature Contests | Resources
Literature Community Relations | Contact Me
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