Love dA Lit: Issue 139

Welcome to the one-hundred thirty-ninth 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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• Round 1, THE EPIC AUTHOR OFF
• A Call to Conversation (29)--*madameshadowenn
• 13th Birthday: Contest Results
• Nichrysalis's poll: "Thank you, dA lit community, for the opportunity to represent you, and I'd like to ask a favor. Are you up for suggesting lit DD's?"
• WritersInk's Weekly Round-up!
• Lit. Anthology for Charity (OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!) Submission period ends September 30th/October 1st
• Weekly Selection #23
• Coming: 5th Annual Poetry Screams Prompt Contest and dreamsinstatic is looking for donations!
• "What do you read most on dA?" asks themagpiepoet
• Do you know what a DD is?
• Update on Me a journal from out Fan-Fiction CV, SingingFlames, about her plans.

Group News

• Member News and Events from Superhero-Lit.
• Authors-Unlimited's latest journal: Book Promotion #3!
• We-The-Writers announces the Grand Tournament winner
• The Bi-Weekly winners from SeductiveInkWell have been announced.
• EliteLiterature's Lit of the Week 89! *intricately-ordinary, ~shebledgreenink and =TristanCody
• Literature-and-Stuff reveals the winners of their feedback giveaway.
• An update from SuperWritersHelp.
• Writing-Commissions asks memebrs to fill out a Questionnaire: Help the Group and Win Free Stuff
• BeautyinthePages' Memory Contest WINNERS
• #PVSTW - Nominate Members! from PoetryVSTheWorld
• LitGuildUK's latest blog, Writing Challenge Progress
• Synergy: September and Fall Programs are both from Live-Love-Write
• SixWordStories wants your thoughts and suggestions.
• Write2liveCancerFree reveals the April Winners
• Attempt to restore activity in the group from Written-Life
• Battle Stations! NaNoWriMo 2013 is swiftly approaching and LiteraryAbandon is getting pumped!
• The winners from LiteratureJunkies have been announced.
• From Persistent-Practice: Motivation Monday 15, Twosome Tuesday 15, WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday, Thoughtful Thursday 15, Famous Advice Friday 15, Spotlight Saturday 15, and
• My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink asks "What do you want for October?" and posts a suggestion journal.
• Writers-Guild-DA announces the The Semi-Finalist for the 2nd Quarterly SS of 2013

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Small is never a bad thing when it comes to groups and Learn2Crit-Lit is no exception. This group is all about teaching people to critique and/or proofread literature. This is a place where anyone is welcome, whether you've just started out or you've been around a few times and want to pas son some knowledge. Click here to learn a little more about this group's admins.

MagicalJoey was amazing enough to let me ask her a few questiosn regarding Learn2Crit-Lit!

Can you explain a bit about your group, Learn2Crit-Lit, and what makes it different from other literature groups on dA?

Learn2Crit-Lit is a group where hopefully critics can come and sharpen some skills, and also a place where potential critics can practice and receive encouragement and feedback from the admins as well as the group members who are more 'senior' in terms of critiquing. It is different because it is a teaching group, not a group where you can place your work and expect someone else to work on it or just for glory. It is a place where you can come to learn, or practice, both in a group or one-on-one.

What prompted you to create the group?

I run two critique groups, GrammarNaziCritiques and SuperWritersHelp and am always having to advertise everywhere for anyone who wants to join the critic team. I thought that perhaps 'training' people would make them less 'scared' of volunteering because they now 'knew what they were doing' in a sense. It was created out of a spirit of imparting knowledge and helping people discover that, yes, they have this ability and it's not just limited to the 'big names' on DA.

What kind of future projects and events can we expect from Learn2Crit-Lit?

At the moment I have an open challenge, where there is a piece of poetry and a piece of prose anyone can critique. In the future, depending on membership and interaction, I would post a piece of poetry and prose and have people note me critiques in a 'competition' with an impartial 3rd party judge and the best critique would be featured ect.

Do you have any advice for those new to critiquing?

Don't be afraid to give your opinion if it is different to what someone else has said. It is your opinion - the author can take it or lose it.
Don't be disappointed if you get no response from an author.
Know that some authors will not like what you have to say, don't start a fight it's not worth it.
Believe in yourself and the talents you have. If you can write you can point out mistakes, if you can do that you can work up to a critique/constructive comment. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

Anything else of note that you would like to share?

The thing that holds us back the most is fear. Fear of taking the risk and being rejected/laughed at/etc.
There is a story of two seeds. The first seed decided to risk it all and sent its roots deep into the soil and its stem high into the sky. The second seed was afraid to risk. "What if something goes wrong?" One day a chicken pecking for food found the second seed and ate it.
Which seed are you?

Quick Links:

• Gallery
• A Welcome
• 13 September 2013 Challenge

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:

• "Window " is Live-Love-Write's weekly writing prompt. [September 20th]
• FightToWrite's Theme of the Week - Balance [September 22nd]
• Multhaiku's weekly prompts: Mythology and Folklore [September 22nd]
• TheWritersMeow believes its "The End"! with their newest prompt. [September 22nd]
• Prompt-Bunnies posts their newest prompt, a book quote. [September 22nd]
• "Apocalypse Anniversary" from Apocalypse-writing. [September 28th]
• House-of-Playwrights's Weekly-ish Prompt [September 28th]
• CRLiterature's FotoFriday: Living in 1900 [October 3rd]
• Weekly Spontaneity: 76 from SixWordStories
• Writing Challenge 001 - Week 002 from LitGuildUK
• Theme of the Week: Argument from Unseen-Writers
• "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]
• Versicolor Project [September 30th]
• 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]
• Letters to the end of a Season [October 30th]
• formfindsfunction's latest prompt: FFF 12: form creation challenge [October 31st]
• WritersOfTheWorld's September Activity: Dialogue
• 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]
• Writing-Commissions's Writing Challenge #3
• A prompt from We-The-Writers.
• 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:

• "Why Am I Here" [Poetry Only] (October 1st)
• Unity Through Lyrics (October 5th)
• 100 member Contest (October 13th)
• tubefed's Contest (October 15th)
• All Hallow's Tales Prose Contest: FRANKENTALES [Prose only; 3,000 word maximum] (October 22nd)
• Fiendish Fan Fiction Contest [Fan Fiction Only; 3,000 word maximum] (November 1st)
• Back To School Contest [1,000 word maximum for prose; 50 line limit for poetry] (November 2nd)
• Halloween Contest 2013: Trick or Treat (Deadline Unspecified)

Contests Ending This Week:

• Autumn/Fall Contest [Prose Only; 2,500 word maximum] (September 23rd)
• #Bright-Poets' Poetry Contest #4 [8 line minimum; 28 maximum] (September 30th)

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 #50
• Friday Night Features CXVI
• The Saturday Spotlight for September 21st, 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
• DLD to DD for September 17th, 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

• 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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• 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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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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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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