So CRLiterature is THE Literature hub for the lit community on DA, but who are those scary people behind it? I know, they may seem terrifying or unapproachable, but they're really just your neighbors who want to encourage you and see you get involved. This article is going to prove that they're not all that different from you because, well, they are people just like you. :bademoticon:
- We'll be asking you a question every month in order to get to know you better and then you get to ask us one question as well!
- Be sure to tag the admins or admin in your comment so they know you're asking them a question!
- You can ask us pretty much anything, we're cool like that.
March's Question: Are you a plotter or a pantster? Why?
Cool People:
- BeccaJSPretends to be a writer, but spends more time being a mother and project manager in that horrible place called "real life". Originally on DA as Beccalicious, long serving CV and part of the foundry of CRLiterature and now just resides here like gaudy wallpaper occasionally sharing wisdom or bad jokes.
Writes with passion and purpose – has selfless love for the DeviantART Community.
A Wonderful Day in the Neighborhood
CRLiterature announces: The OuliPoetry Contest!CRLiterature is pleased to announce an exciting contest full of wonder, fascination, and pure ecstasy! That is... The OuliPoetry Contest!
What is OuliPoetry?
The Oulipo movement is the combination of mathematics and poetry created in 1960 by French mathematician Francois de Lionnais and writer Raymond Queneau. It is the Workshop of Potential Literature.
Based on their ideas, and for the purpose of this contest, you will be using the Applied Poetics website to create poems using the methods described below.
The Contest Rules
We are tasking you, the awesome poets of DeviantArt, with creating a Found Poem using the constraint prompts listed below. You will use the
CRLiterature's Prompt Bank - March 2016If you're looking for a sundial, we're not your people. If you want prompts, we got you.:thumb598413364:
CRLiterature's Prompt Bank collects a bunch of prompts for your convenience so you can pick and choose without opening google. :') As pretty much all of these prompts aren't ours, just a collection of them, you're free to do as many or as little as you like.
If you're not finding these prompts difficult enough we'll give you a "mix and match" challenge that will require you to use multiple prompts in one piece. If you think your pens or keyboards can handle it.
DA Groups With Regular Prompts
House-of-Playwrights
Ordinary-Writing
SixWordStories
Unseen-Writers
TheWritePlace
SadPrompts
theWrittenRevolution
FlashFictionLives
Apocalypse-writing
Prose-ject
ShortAndSweetPoetry
ProjectDFC
Here are the most recent (at the time of THIS article's posting) prompts:
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HYSTERIA IS COMING!Hi everyone! Apologies for disappearing again. But I've been buried in work for Lucky Bastard Press. Including—YES!—that secret anthology that I've been pretty bad at keeping under wraps. THE HYSTERIA ANTHOLOGY! An entire book of work by female and nonbinary writers reflecting on the experience of being in the female and/or nonbinary body.
The latest update on our cover art, a final sketch by jowyn.
(Shared with permission from the artist.)
I can't believe it's finally happening. This anthology is one of the biggest undertakings of my career thus far. And, appropriately, some of the most awesome people I've ever worked with are a part of it.
Francesca Lia Block. Judith Ortiz Cofer. Rita Dove. Lesléa Newman. Patricia Smith. Natasha Trethewey.
I CAN'T EVEN.
Watch this space. Instead of my usual National Poetry Month festivities (I know y'all dig those, but I am still recovering from the whole kidney thing) I'll be releasing news on the anthology over th
:thumb594326177:"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plotting for long stories that require it to keep everything nice and consistent. Short fiction's nice, though, because I can get away with pantsing and nobody cares. 
I have two questions. Where do the ideas for your writing usually come from? And also, what's the funniest life experience you've had? If that last question is too hard... telling me someone else's funny story is fine too.