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Today is the LAST DAY for you to get your 12 critiques in! Make sure you leave a comment in this journal linking all your pieces. There's plenty of prizes up for grabs

Remember you have until 11:59 PM pst TODAY to complete your critiques!
On the first day of Critmas, a deviant gave to me.
Back by popular demand, I bring you...
The 12 days of CRITMAS challenge!
"CRITMAS IS COMING, THE PROSE IS GETTING FAT. OUT COMES THE RED PEN TO GET RID OF THAT!" (`Memnalar)
Now most of you are relaxing and chilling out on your Christmas vacations; some of you have time off work/school and will be staying at home in the warm over the next week or so. So why don't we make use of that hermit time and do something productive? Get your onesie on, warm up a mince pie, pour yourself a Baileys and let’s get comfortable around our computers!
The Challenge

The Literature Community ExperimentThis is a typical example of a ^Beccalicious shower pondering! The idea of this is to try and bring together as many people as possible all in one journal, but not for the sake of making a big number, but to encourage interaction and share useful tidbits. We often say the "literature community" has drifted apart over the past few years and this is just one attempt to try get people to come back together. It's a little hippy, perhaps a far-fetched idea, which is why I am calling it an "experiment". This could be successful and could be a complete fail- only you guys and your efforts can decide its fate!

Wow! The response for this has been HUGE!!! Thank you so much all of you who have participated! Don't forget to add #CRLiterature to your watch as well as replying to all these wonderful comments!

The Experiment
So you may be new to the literature side of deviantART, or you may be one of those long

Community Project: One-Sentence-At-A-Time [CLOSED]

Well, that's a wrap! ~SCFrankles got in the last word this time. Expect the deviation to be posted sometime tomorrow. Thanks for a smashing success!
You've all seen these, I am sure. The idea is one person starts a story with a single sentence. Each participant writes a comment that adds another sentence to continue the story. You can leave as many comments as you'd like, but no two can be back to back. Please make sure you read previous comments so you know what general direction the story is headed.

Some ground rules:

The story will be written in third person omniscient which allows us to be in any character's head at any time. But try not to do too much jumping as that gets confusing.

Absolutely stick to the ONE sentence per comment rule. They can be compound sentences.

Let's aim to have this story done by January 5th at 11:59pm Pacific Time. I'll compile all the comments into one

Thank you Lady Coconut! Hello everyone

Our lovely Lady Coconut of the literature team is hanging up her hat!

:iconthorns::iconthorns::iconthorns::iconthorns::iconthorns:
`thorns joined the Community Volunteer team this time last year and is now returning to the status of "writer-that's-a-little-thorny".

Its been a bit of a loopy year of Thorns and we cannot thank her enough for her time. We know full well she isn't going to fall into that mysterious sinkhole that some former volunteers go into and her heart will still be within the community!

For now, we'd like to ask you all to join us in thanking Julia and wishing her the best of luck. We also hope that her and `GrimFace242 will find reconciliation, since they parted a month ago.
In our own way of thanking her, we have some swanky Minotaur art...

Why not tell us your&

February Form Fiesta (FFF) 2012 has finished!

FFF has finished for 2012 and I thank all those who wrote pieces for this awesome contest. We are in deliberation for a few days and the winners will be announced by Wednesday March 14th. This is because my computer broke down halfway through my judging process and I have had it at the shop for almost a week. Sorry guys

. To tide you over,

check out all 32 entries in here: http://projectdfc.deviantart.com/gallery/35059192.
THANK YOU GUYS!
Sammy (*kiwi-damnation)
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February Form Fiesta is back after 3 years! Excited? Nervous? Have no idea what I'm talking about? Awesome!

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Our five forms for February are:
1. Trijan Refrain
2. Epistle
3. Alliterisen
4. Monotetra
5. Senryu
This year’s February Form Fiesta is going to be fantastic. Our five forms showcase very different elements and therefore force each of you to adopt a new

Create Your Own Wrimo Contest: CLOSED

The contest is over and the results have been posted here. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Submitted Wrimos!
If you'd like to sign up for any of these wrimos (or multiple), leave a comment on this journal stating which one (or more) you'd like to take part in. Make sure you include the name of the creator(s) in your comment!
:iconsitsunderwaterfalls:
DeReWriMo:
DeviantArt's Revision Writer's Month is designed to help you revise one of your existing pieces through a variety of exercises.
Week 1: Critique Week
Week 2: Rewind Week
Week 3: Redraft Week
Week 4: Tweak Week
To read all the details, click here.
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BioWriMo:
This wrimo asks you to write a biography for a secondary character.
Week 1: Birth and childhood
Week 2: Death
Week 3: Legacy
Week 4: Additional factors
To read all the details,

Review Competition *CLOSED*Update 15/2/13: Competition has CLOSED for month one.
The Review Project, Competition... Thing
Hi guys! Well it's not so much a competition as it is a project in which you can win prizes... the idea came to me and I thought I'd share it with you all.
NB: There are copies of this blog post to take comments from here and here.
Your Mission (should you choose to accept it):
Is to go to the profile of a writer that you like on DeviantART and leave them a review. Not on a specific thing they've written but about them as a writer.
Over my years here on DA I have kind of collected these reviews, and when I self published my poetry collections I used them on the back of my book because some of them were just so sweet.
Perhaps the person you review will add your thoughts on them to their DA page, or to their writing website to help other people get an idea about who they are as a writer.
Revie

Love dA Lit: Issue 111Welcome to the one-hundred eleventh 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.
Note: Go give some hugs to all our new seniors! Extra love to our litters: `raspil. `thetaoofchaos, `vespera, `dreamsinstatic, `OfOneSoul, `FuzzyHoser, `MagicalJoey, `GrimFace242, and `mirz-alt!
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Literature DD Roundup- December 2012Greetings everyone!
Today is New Years Eve, so before we share the roundup for December, on behalf of the Lit CVs, I wish you all a fantastic 2013!
It’s been a year of progression for the literature community, one I hope you will all join us on the continued journey for 2013. The community isn’t just 4 volunteers, it is ALL OF YOU, and I hope you share your ideas and get involved.
December has showcased some fantastic pieces of writing, and because of this we have actually snuck in a few bonus features. On Christmas day, we had 4 Literature DDs and from mid-December onwards we added some extra DDs over the weekend- something which we will now be doing every weekend!

(ps. Did anyone notice we’d snuck in some extra DDs lately?)
Here is the roundup for December:
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Features by ^Beccalicious

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Madefire and Literature: Interview with Liam SharpWhen deviantART HQ announced they were Introducing Madefire Motionbooks to deviantART, the writers amongst us were again asking "what about us?". Madefire seems pretty awesome, but what can we do as writers to get involved? The answer is LOTS. In an interview with Writer, Comic Book Artist, Publisher and Madefire co-founder Liam Sharp, we find out a little bit more about what Madefire can do for writers, and a little about Liam himself...

"Madefire is undertaking an epic journey
One that we believe will revolutionize how stories are told, read, and shared. One that will transform a once static medium into an interactive experience that unfolds dynamically on mobile devic

Love dA Lit: Issue 64Welcome to the sixty-fourth issue of my weekly news article, 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, interviewing various members of the literature community 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.

This weeks group spotlight is #Critique-It!

#LITplease's Community Portal
Literature Links

News Articles in CRLiterature

#transliterations has extended the deadline of their Modernising Myths Contest. [February 15th]

~TenderPassion is a new Lit Romance group that will be up and running Febr

A Smattering of Lit NewsFeatured Thingies (everything in this section is new, yes)
May CLiterature Update

Steampunk Extravaganza - now til May 18! (And you could submit your story to UFO afterwards

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Writing Resources
NaPo winners feature!

May Mixup Madness - deadline June 1
Title Poem contest winners
TRANSGRESSIONS - deadline May 31
Results of the Awakenings/Asleepenings contest
`raspil has a

Our First Contest: Brevity Is the Soul of LitNational Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) is set to begin on April 1; what better platform with which to launch our first contest! So without further ado, allow us to present: Brevity Is the Soul of Lit.
Prize List

Everyone always scrolls down to the prizes first anyway, so let's just get that out of the way. As more prizes are (hopefully) added, they will be highlighted.
Best in Show (overall winner)

3-month sub, courtesy of $wreckling.

700 points, courtesy of `GrimFace242, `thorns, `LadyLincoln, ^neurotype and myself.

Inclusion in our Featured folder.

Critique, courtesy of `tiganusi.

Llama, courtesy of =AzizrianDaoXrak.
Best of Breed (themed entry)

450 points, courtesy of `GrimFace242, `thorns, `LadyLincoln, ^neurotype and myself.

Inclusion in our Featured folder.

Llama

Transliterations: Modernising Myths Results#transliterations' Modernising Myths Contest: Results!
So here we are, nearly three weeks after rounding up our biggest contest of all time and only three days after we said we'd get here, which has to be some sort of #transliterations record. And it's nearly eight weeks since we first asked you to take your favourite myth, legend or fable and transmute its essence into a modern story. Forty-nine writers answered the call, knocking our collective socks off and putting a serious dent in what we laughably refer to as our free time; I have a newfound respect for judges everywhere, with the possible exception of Judge Judy. It was incredibly difficult coming up with just four winners--take a spin through the entries yourself and you'll see what I mean--but it's not a proper contest if it doesn't reward excellence, and so I hereby present to you:
Poetry, First Place

Based on

Daily Deviation Suggestion Drive!Back By Popular Demand!
In January of 2012, the community was challenged by `thorns to do something about their complaints on dA. Thus was born this very group! But before the group, it was just a fledgling idea on `Kneeling-Glory's account that began with a DD Suggestion Contest. The results of that contest were overwhelming. And so, under the prodding of quite a few Community Volunteers, we're going to do it again!

UPDATE: Less than 1 week in and we've already got 100 suggested DDs and 2 accepted suggestions!!

Keep up the great work guys and gals. Please remember that you need to leave a link to every deviation you suggest in this journa

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Short Poem Contest!

by *akarra, Apr 24, 2012, 11:15:55 AM
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Rules Update

Announcing Ashok's "Short Poem Contest." The idea is to get people to write really short poems if they haven't already. Can you make every word - maybe even syllable - count? I hope those of you who haven't tried poetry at all will try something for the contest.

Rules

30 words maximum per entry; no set form. Only one original entry per contestant (don't recycle old material, please). Theme is "music" - you can do whatever you want with that, including base your poem on a song lyric (perhaps use the lyric as an epigraph?) Poems must be in English.

The contest will end in 14 days: deadline is May 8th. Just write anything, and write quickly. I'm not here to be snobby about poetry. I want to get people writing, getting to know each other, and promoting each other. I will add anyone who participates to my watchlist, and as some of you are aware, I do provide feedback and try to keep up with as many as I can on here.

I do advise that before you submit a short poem, you read some of what I've written about haiku. This analysis of one by Basho isn't a long read. Watch also what Emily Dickinson does with 21 words.

I request that you link to this post in the description of your poem - spread the word about the contest & make it clear what is an entry for it. Send me a note with a link to your poem, and do feel free to put it in my profile's comments. Don't forget to send a note, though - I'm going to be watching my notes mainly for entrants.

Prizes

I'm accepting donations for prizes. I might buy some points and give them out, but I'd rather do something different. If any of you write something spectacular, I was thinking of asking your permission to put it on my main blog - ashokkarra.com . With 25,000 visitors a month, you'd probably get considerably more attention, but I don't know.

There will be a first and second place prize. Also, a prize for the person who promotes this contest the most - obviously, don't spam people, but if you get a few of your friends to participate, you should get a little something more.

Hope to be reading your work soon!

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Listening to: Bach
Reading: Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"
Playing: Skyrim
Drinking: coffee

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=DrippingWords May 15, 2012 Student Writer

Aww, I missed the dead line. And I had someting written and everything!

=rose-from-the-ashes May 7, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

entry: [link]

~TashiHazeldine May 6, 2012 Student Writer

My entry: [link]
I'll admit it's hopeful, but I had so much fun :3

*raven-dust May 5, 2012 Student Writer

I'm definitely going to enter

*Runs off to look at your gallery & etc* !

^NicSwaner May 4, 2012 Student Writer

May I ask what your policy is on hyphen usage is? I tend to compound words together with hyphens sometimes and I've done it this time. Should I avoid this altogether or keep it but just not push the limit?

*akarra May 4, 2012 Student Writer

Just be fair to the other contestants. Some really struggled with the 30 word limit. I won't mind a hyphenated word or two, but it'll really help if you're well under the limit.