Love dA Lit: Issue 87

Welcome to the eighty-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 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.

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• DLD Summer Contest
• Introducing the Premium Content Platform
• Premium Content for Literature- what opportunities do you see? (Discuss!)
• Word of the Sennight (15-21.07.2012)
• Passages: Invisible Cities by Italio Calvino
• Poem of the Week - #41
• EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 31! disrhythmic, Drunken-Splice and Bark
• The Word Wars Chat Tour is coming to *Flash-Fic-Month and they ask participants "What time should we host our leg of the Word Wars Chat Tour?"
• Want to be a good writer?
• LiliWrites is having a Book Giveaway! (US Only)
• Legends, Myths and Tales Literature results.
• Chat Tour Schedule
• Word Wars Chat Tour Wrap-Up
• Flash Fiction Month 2012 - Week Two Challenges
• Daily Deviations: Behind the Magic
• Cliche? Who cares?
• Flash Ficcers! Writer's Digest has a competition for you.
• Writers-Workshop puts out a Call for New Workshops
• Word-Smiths posts a short list of Online Magazines Accepting Submissions
• Publishing Opportunity for Artists and Writers
• "Which season gives you the most writing inspiration?" writersociety wants to know.
• Interview With an Admin: CJWilde
• TWG's Featured Deviant of the Month - July 2012
• Tea Time with Aconitum-Napellus
• "LiliWrites's poll: DLD's Contest closes in just a few weeks! Have you written anything for it yet?"
• WritersInk's Weekly Round-up & July Write Off
• .:Sweet Everythings:. (A Feature)
• PE: Feedback Week: It's a Wrap! and What did you think of Feedback Frenzy?
• Grawlix is still accepting submissions.
• How Publishing Works
• Advice from Uncle Kurt & even more advice
• Itti has received Deviousness for the month of July, be sure to give her lots of congratulations!
• There's room for another lit CV...
• What Literature resources on dA have you found really helpful?
• The Ladies of Lit Chat Event will be held on July 22nd at 5PM EST

Group News:

• LivingLiterature has begun a discussion on Mystery
• DeviantLITERATURE will be hosting a Mystery Chat Event on July 28th.
• A small update from Unabashed-Words
• Open-Mic-Poetry's Free Verse Folder is full and asks members to submit to other folders.
• A quick apology from TheWritersMeow
• YouAsTheNarrator updates their folder rules and group rules/FAQ.
• Lots of changes and some updates concerning PowerfulWriting.
• The group, writingmadefun, reminds members the group is poetry only.
• poetry-book announces the winners of their Zombie Contest and  asks "Should more prizes be added to the contest prize lists? "
• Poem-forthe-poemless' Poet of the Week
• WritersInk reveals the June Write Off Winner
• Some changes from writersociety, including a temporary shutdown.
• TheExchangeII has extended their audition deadline.
• Who or what inspires you? asks Christ-is-Written
• 15-Minutes-of-Fame has oppened submissions again.
• The winners of FocusOnLit's Writing Marathon have been announced.
• RawEm0tion has some news, updates their Poetry/Prose RPG: Lvl Up and Quest Tower #5
• MagicalLiterature offers an apology.
• Some changes from FictionWriters101 concerning submissions.
• Writers-and-Editors updates their critic list.
• Quite a few updates and a rule change from poetry-book
• An update from Authors-Academy about their Books of July and gives members a reminder.
• Lit-WIP has some Weekly Reminders.
• The group, SuperWritersHelp, has some updates and closes their prose folder.
• July Musings and Evaluation from GrammarNaziCritiques
• The winners of 'World Changes' have been announced.
• We-Write-Fantasy has an update and revives their 'Tips & Tricks'

Literature Links [in other languages!]

• Voting has begun for LiteraturaEspanol's Exercise # 29 [Spanish]
• LiteraturaBR announces the results of their June Contest. [Portuguese]

I am still looking for non-English literature groups, I'd like to keep tabs on them too!

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TheWritingHaven is a close-knit group, with each member having their own gallery folder and encourages each member to reach out and critique another member's writing. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins!

LionesseRampant, the founder of TheWritingHaven was kind enough to let me pick her brain a bit about the group.


How is TheWritingHaven different from the other literature groups on dA?

It's a group where every member has a folder, but you don't have to be a fantastic writer to join! We accept everyone, from people who are just starting out, to people who have been writing their whole lives. Once someone joins, I try to get their folder up and running ASAP. The submissions to your folder are unlimited. (If I ever get enough member, I'll have to change this, due to folder limits, but I'll worry about that when the time comes.)

What was the reason you created the group?

The reason I joined deviantART was to get feedback on my writing. I joined several groups off the bat, but there were others that I wasn't good enough to be in. I remember trying to join Elite-Literature because I thought that the layout was cool, and, when they declined me(for good reason; I was a horrible writer back then) I went in search for other groups that had the same layout, but were more joinable. I didn't find any, so, TheWritingHaven was born.

You recently stated TheWritingHaven would be hosting a contest, can we get any sneak peaks as to what you're planning?

Well, the group is turning one on the 17th of July so that's when the contest will be starting. It'll be like the first contest, with prose and poetry categories. But, I can't tell you what they're going to be. You'll just have to join and see!

Anything else of note that you would like to share?

I hope to be turning the group into a supergroup sometime soon, so, if you want to donate, go to my page!


Quick Links:

• Gallery
• #TheWritingHaven's Rules
• Chatroom

Looking for more groups?

• leoraigarath's Literature Groups List
• 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. 2

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:

• Live-Love-Write's Weekly Writing Prompt: "Dangerous Games"[July 6th]
• "Your First Pet", the current weekly theme for RawEm0tion
• Unseen-Writers' Theme of the Week: Cold
• House-of-Playwrights' first July weekly prompt is an Image/Quote Pairing.
• Week 2.99 Prompt of lit-lash's weekly prompts.
• Writers-Togethers Wednesday Writing Theme: War, destruction..
• Weekly Spontaneity: 16 from SixWordStories
• WritersAreArtistsToo's Writing Wednesdays Prompt.
• TheWritersMeow's Prompt: "Heartbreak" [July 8th]
• One Word Prompt Thursday: Watch from TheWritingObsession
• Prompt #14: Fight is Heart-of-Poetry's newest weekly prompt. [July 21st]
• Weekly Influence #50 from Escape-Of-A-Writer.
• DeviantLITERATURE's Character Conception Challenge Prompt II [July 14th]
• Writers-Cove's Weekly Theme 2
• Theme of the Week: Write a twelve-word story about yourself from writersociety.

Bi-Weekly:

• Bi-Weekly Prompts: June 17, 2012 from theWrittenRevolution.
• "A Night Under the Stars", Love-Literature's bi-weekly prompt.
• Letters-To-Myself's Writing Prompt: Letters To Lovers.
• "Vanity" is WritersOfTheMoon's bi-weekly prompt.
• PromptMe's Prompt #7
• A Bi-Weekly Prompt from LOVE-Original-LIT [July 17th]
• 'Paradise' is We-Write-To-Escape's fortnightly theme. [July 22nd]
• SnippetsofReality's Concept Two [July 15th]

Monthly:

• Literary-Limits' July Challenge: True Freedom [July 24th]
• LiterarySanctuary's July Prompt
• SixWordStories' Word and Theme Prompts
• ScreamPrompt #26, May 2012 [End of June]
• transliterations' Prompt 12: The Beginning [June 20th]
• Horror-Stories' July Monthly Theme.
• MidtownMagic's Monthly Theme: "Fantasy Noir" [August 31st]
• A Monthly Challenge: June from Unseen-Writers
• Shelf-of-Friends' Prompt: June 2012

Workshops and Challenges:

• FFF 9: Villanelle Challenge
• Character Conception: Workshop I [July 31st]
• Write a Review Challenge
• Forum Challenge- Anything goes with four letters...
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink's July Poetry Forms Challenge: Ballad
• RawEm0tion's Challenges: People & Places [July 15th]
• A FreeWriters Marathon [October 31st]
• Authors-of-Fantasy and FantasyLiterature's Feedback Pack--July Sign Up [Monthly]

Other:

• Self-Publishing's Prompt # 3 [July 31st]
• "What If" prompt from WritersOfTheWorld
• 'Hummingbird' is Ecrit-de-la-poesie's prompt.
• lacoterie's Poetry & Prose Prompt [July 27th]
• Literature in Use Project [August]
• The Apocalypse Scenario Prompt from Apocalypse-writing [July 15th]
• YouAsTheNarrator's weekly, bi-weekly and monthly prompts.
•   Poetic Journey Project hosted by Masters-of-Poetry.
• Flash Fiction Lives: Creation 5: Ghosts
• LITplease's Poetry and Fiction Prompts: #17: The Muse [July 27th]
• Betrayal or Abandoned are Inspiring-Words' current prompts.

Ongoing Challenges[No Deadline]:

• SixWordStories’ Inspiration Project Take III-- July
• Literature Lesson 1.04, Literature Lesson 1.03, Literature Lesson 1.02, Literature Lesson 1.01
• Write 50 Reason's Why You Love Yourself Challenge
• 100 Word Challenge hosted by JustKeepWriting
• A List of Prompts from FeatheredWords.
• full-moon-poetry's 18 themes.
• LITplease's 100 Themes Challenge
• Writers-Universal's Publicity Project

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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:

• Romance Contest (July 25th)
• Poem Contest [Poetry only; please see link for details] (July 30th)
• 'Love Sucks' Contest [Song lyrics only; please see link for details] (August 1st)
• Prompt Contest [Please see link for details] (August 4th)
• #Ordinary-Writing's Critique Challenge [Prose only; 2,500 word maximum; please see link for details] (August 13th; August 31st)
• Hands of Hope [3,000 word prose maximum; 40 line poetry limit; please see link for details] (August 15th)
• LotR Contest: 'Between the Lines' (September 15th)
• Arts for Human Rights Contest [7,700 character limit; please see link for details] (September 15th)
• "Pan-BioWare Crossover Competition" (October 1st)
• "Color" Poetry Contest [Poetry only; please see link for details] (October 31st)
• Halloween Contest [Fan-fiction; please see link for details] (October 31st)

Contests Ending This Week:

• Good Vs Evil [Poetry only; please see link for details] (July 15th)
• Before and After [Please see link for details] (July 16th and August 31st)
• 'Emotional' (July 18th)
• #Prosepoetry-Elegance's Contest (July 19th)
• Realism Fiction Project/Contest [Prose only; 1,000 word minimum; 5,000 word maximum; please see link for details] (July 20th)
• Shilin Backstory Contest [200 word minimum; 600 word maximum; please see link for details] (July 20th)
• #ChasingInk Two Prompt Contest (July 20th)
• Character Creation Contest [Please see link for details] (July 23rd)

Contest Extensions:

• July 23rd is the new deadline for the Character Creation Contest [Please see link for details]

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Regular Lit Articles

• Lit Fortnightly - 25 April 2012
• The Lit List: Issue 01
• Lit Up! Vol. V
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXIII
• Writers With a Promise - Issue 15
• Friday Night Features LV
• PoetryToTheMasses Weekly Feature 71
• The Saturday Spotlight for July 7th, 2012
• DLD to DD July 13th, 2012
• The Acrostics Series: BornBlitzed
• Name Your Droppings vol. 2
• Demonstrably Deviant: Issue VIII
• 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume X
• The Favorites Project #156, #157, #158
• Special Sundaes- Sammur-amat's Sunday Features

General Resources

• theWrittenRevolution's Lit News Journal
• LadyLincoln's Journal
• lovetodeviate's Resource Central [Now moved to apocathary’s journal]
• julietcaesar's List of Useful Writing Blogs
• #SixWordStories Community Happenings
• WorldWar-Tori's Literature Resources
• #Critique-It's Resources: Writing
• #Mythologue's Literary Resources
• #FantasyLiterature's Helpful Links

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
• How to Write Fan Fiction - P1
• How to Write Euphonically
• OokamiKasumi's Writing Tips and Tricks
• English 101 Index: A Grammar Series

Prose Resources

• ElaineRose's Writing Lessons
• Ten Tips for Writing
• 10 Tips for Novel Writers
• Organizing Your Fantasy/Sci-Fi Novel
• 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
• Poetry Self-Edit Quick Start Guide and Checklist
• "Poeticks: On Imagery" 1 of 3, "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3, and "Poeticks: On Imagery" 2 of 3

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
• A Verbose Guide to Critiquing
• Murdering Mary Sue
• Extrasuperfabulous
• Characterization and Names
• Character Development: From Beginning to End
• Describing your Characters
• Rehab for Roleplayers

Publishing Resources

• SadisticIceCream's Publishing Resources List
• 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?
• 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.]
• Current 2012 Canadian Magazine Writing Contests
• 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]
• Steampunk Tales
• G.W. Review
• Fuselit
• The Missing Slate
• Second Look
• Verandah Literary Journal
• Machine of Death
• Cram Magazine
• Voiceworks
• Shimmer
• dotdotdash Magazine
• Alliterati Magazine
• Linear Literary Journal
• Grawlix Poetry E-Zine
• choodaloodaling
• Artsmiths

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•   MagicalLiterature would like another co-founder to help with submissions.
• WritingForEveryone needs a co-founder and a few contributors.
• General Administrators are wanted at Poetry-is-AWESOME.
• writingmadefun would like another admin to help with the group activities.
• 1 Foreign Language Administrator is the current open positions at DailyLitDeviations.
• DesperateWriters is hoping for a few new moderators and a co-founder to help out the group.
• A co-founder is need to help run lit-lash.
• The group, Written-Imagination, is looking for a variety of staff members.
• TheShelfLife is looking to be adopted.
• Soul-Poets are looking to fill their contributor positions.
• Literature-Accepted needs four co-founders.
• YouAsTheNarrator is looking to fill the following positions: 2 Gallery Moderators, 2 Character Bio Moderators, 4 Chatroom Moderators, 4 Promotion Moderators, 2 Gallery Contributors, and Comment Contributors.
• WeeklyLitContests would like 1 more contributor.
• One contributor is needed at poetry-book.
• Beta-readers are needed at Beta-Readers!
• ThreeThousandWords is looking for one co-founder and two contributors.
• 2 Community Liasons and 2  Critics are needed over at LITplease.
• Critics and contributors are the open positions in CritiqueForPoints.
• DALiteratureContests is looking for 5 Contributors.
• Prose critics are urgently needed in the group GrammarNaziCritiques.
• SuperWritersHelp is in need of prose and poetry critics.
• LiteratureforPoints is in need of 2 Moderators and 10 Contributors.
• A Contibutor position is avaliable at TeenagedLiterature.
• 10 Contributors are wanted  at FightToWrite
• WriMo-Writers would like some more admins to help with behind-the-scenes work.
• Motivators, Workshoppers, and Bloggers are needed at FocusOnLit.
• Wannabe-Novelists is looking for some new admins.
• Adopt-A-Writer is looking mentors and mentees.
• Two admin positions need to be filled at WriterSecretSanta.
• EditorialSquad is in need of various staff.
• Poetry-Screams wants some administrators.
• WA-writersblock is in need of a new founder.
• Contributors are needed at We-Write-To-Escape.
• New admins are wanted at Unconventional-Story.
• Critiquers are needed at FantasyAuthorsGuild.
• 2 Afilliates/PR Admins, 2 Pay It Forward Admins, and 4 Critics are open at lacoterie.
• Members to host workshops and Contributors are needed at Writers-Workshop
• Critics, admins, and people "interested in helping run and set up events and projects" are needed at devLIT.
• Deviant-Mentor needs Literature Mentors!
• 8 Critiquers, 3 Lit-Pickers, and 1 Affiliate Admin are needed at LitResources.
• Two Contributors are wanted at Written-Love.
• Open Positions over at SixWordStories, they need: Project Managers and Contest Managers.

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thorns - thorn's DD Suggestion Guidelines
BeccaJS - Beccalicious' DD Suggestion Guidelines
JZLobo - J-Z-Belexes' DD Suggestion Guidelines [Only Fan Fiction.]
Go on and send your literature DD suggestions to them!

#CRLiterature Community Relations Literature Chatroom
Literature CR Update - June 2012
June's Literature Daily Deviations

Literature Forums
Literature Forum
Posting Guidelines - Literature Forum

Monthly Literature Critique Thread: July


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:
for letting me help run LITplease's Community Portal and spamming her inbox with countless notes, all while being wonderful.
a LITplease Community Liason and will be helping me with gathering information while being fabulous.
another LITplease Community Liason who helps gather even more information, all while being awesome.
recently hopped on board and became a Community Liason, so go give her a warm welcome, she's rather amazing.

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