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This is a small update on what's going on around the literature community, that's what this business is. The idea is to try and make the community more readily accessible for everyone, whether you're new or have been here for a while.
Please note: these updates will not be all-encompassing in terms of community happenings, as the community is quite frankly rather large. If there is something that is not included in an update that you would like to be included, please note GaioumonBatou regarding it.
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communityrelations is the hub for the Community Relations team, which means it's a great place to watch for updates of all sorts.dA Literature
The Literature Gallery
The Literature Forums:
Fantasy Literature
Lit Workshop
Poetry and Prose Forum
The CR Literature Chatroom
#getLIT
The Literature Gallery Moderators
An incredibly useful link:
lovetodeviate's Literature Resource Central
Things going on in Lit:
Writing Exercises:
Writers-Workshop is currently holding a workshop on Bildungsroman Short Stories, hosted by ThornyEnglishRose. Inked-Page's current prompt is Phobias. simplyprose has posted a list of prompts to peruse for June. ATrue is hosting a Literary Themes Workshop at LITplease.Lit Contests:
The folks over at TheCabalists are hosting a play writing competition. Unconventional-Story is holding the Let's Twist It! contest. PurpelBlur is hosting Imagination Expand Challenge 3. VertigoArt is holding a poetry contest on lost love.News:
nycterent has taken over as head of Critique-It. Critique group Trashrock has re-launched. BrandiDeer has launched Expound. Flash Fiction Month is less than a month away, and the runners of Flash-Fic-Month want to know: are you IN or are you IN? SutureHQ will be re-launching a series on writers analyzing their writing processes.The past week's Lit DDs
MoshtarakYou came in combat shorts
controlling attention
my American,
Speaking poetry to me
unintentionally
in pidgin Pashto.
I'm sure you've blown skulls
wide open with half formed words
and you frightened me
with your fearless fire.
You chased away the trouble that had
settled heavy over my shoulders and down into
every hair and pore and breath like desert dust.
You were different.
Your eyes shone with the promise
of golden gates
and red bridges to white sheets
across blue gaps and hotels and museums and forests full of God
and everything
and everything seemed possible.
I did not think you would leave me.
And it returns from the mountains, the caves,
Wherever it comes from. Whatever you call it.
Trouble. Taliban. Heartbreak. In pidgin Pashto
or any language.
I wondered where you'd gone
but then I realised -
You think you're home,
But both our homes
are static lines floating
through space and we can't
make it home without finishing
what was started, I know
a part of your head is still here, sp
The NonVerbal Thesaurus
NonVerbal:
Not spoken > Body Language.
Thesaurus:
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Latin thesaurus, treasury, from Greek thesauros.
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n. pl. the•sau•ri (-sôri) or the•sau•rus•es
1. A book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonyms.
2. A book of selected words or concepts, such as a specialized vocabulary of a particular field.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009.
Dialogue is VISUAL
-- Not just a bunch of words.
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Watch the average conversation between two people. 90% of that conversation isn't in what's Spoken, it's in what they are DOING while they are speaking. It's in their Body Language. Body-language cues in your story alert the reader by SHOWING them what is going on in a character's head without Telling t
Essay: Accidental PredatorAccidental Predator
"Real vampires don't sparkle," is the uniting battle-cry of the anti-Twilight series movement. Long-time fans of the vampire fantasy genre all tend to agree that vampires are blood-sucking, night-stalking, sun-fearing, semi-immortal fiends of incalculable strength and power. The drop-dead-sexy definition isn't a foreign idea either. Yet when these defining items come together in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, vampire lovers all over the world have risen up in protest. The mere mention of the series seems an affront to the vampire subject in question. After over a century's worth of exposure to Dracula-stylized vampires, the introduction of this new, different vampire has divided the literary culture. 1
In an attempt to pacify those masses that harbor distaste for Twilight and the subsequent series, here is presented a solution to the controversial issue at hand: the "vampires" in Meyer's Twilight are not vampire
Soichiro's RoarMom was a Honda girl. Always was, always would be. She spent her initial years driving a variety of shed-built Volkswagens, which would promptly have a major failure, which would promptly be dragged back home to get a motor swap. The regularity of this business got to the point where my Uncle Mike, her brother, can still pull and replace a motor in about twenty minutes, but I digress.
Somewhere along the line, Mom, or Robin at the time, needed a new car, and found herself in a Honda dealership. After approaching every vehicle with scrutiny, and likely yelling at the salesman (though she would never admit it), she bought herself the first-generation Honda Civic, a lovely black (they were almost always black) three-door with AM radio, Power Disc Brakes, and more than enough frugality with fuel to ease her own personal gas crisis.
Somewhere in that little hatch, a love affair started, that would only be foolishly interrupted once by a GMC. As time went on, so did that little Honda, to the
Mature Content
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As you may or may not have noticed, this news article's name is...well, we'll go with "lacking in creativity". So, here's the deal: I'd like to re-name it, and I'd like your ideas to do so. In exchange, I'm putting some points up for grabs. Note me (GaioumonBatou) with a potential title, or several, if you feel so inclined.
One title will be chosen, and the person who comes up with it gets 100 points. Sound good?
That's it for this fortnight, if you've got questions or concerns, let me know!
Voyager
Bear with me, this'll be a long one.
Hello all! Thank you for all the well wishes...I wanted to reply to them individually, but honestly I'm not sure what I've got to say aside from thank you. My hope was always that I was doing a good job, but I'm tough on myself when I really care about something, so I never really felt like I was doing enough. I'm glad I had the chance to be on the team, and thank you all for following me along the way, and catching me when I was wrong and supporting me when I wasn't. It all means the world to me.
If you had told me three and a half years ago when I signed up for this site what was going to happen in the
Mission: Complete
And that's that.
Now that lit week is over, I just wanted to let you all know that Monday is my last day as a GM. I'll be posting a longer journal about it later, but I just wanted you all to know the real reason why I've not been accepting DD suggestions is because I won't be featuring any more. :]
Respects
In case you haven't heard, radioPooh (https://www.deviantart.com/radiopooh) and karyaazure (https://www.deviantart.com/karyaazure) both passed away yesterday. I'd never really talked with David much myself, but he had a large impact on a lot of people I know, and from what I can tell he was always very well-liked around here. Erica was one of the first people to greet me to the chat system, when I first
Project Educate: Literature! (+ challenge results)
projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate) has come to the lit gallery! The team has come up with a game plan for articles for the week, and I'll be keeping a full list of them here as they're posted, for easy reference!
January 9th
Launch and intro chat in #CRLiterature!Prose PoemsJanuary 10th
Lit Groups Under the RadarUrban fantasy literatureJanuary 11th
The Literature CommunityFinding the Profound in NonfictionJanuary 12th
Visual and Concrete Poetry + Concrete Poetry challenge!January 13th
Trivia in :#CRLiterature: at 10 pm GMT! (That's 5 pm EST, 2 pm PST, in case you wondered.) Join us!Plight of the Commonly MiscattedJanuary 14th
The Submission Process a
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Unrelated, chat in :#TheLadiesofLit: in five minutes, stop in if you've got the time!
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Oh, neat. 
Anything ending in an 's' followed by 'exposed' would be quite eyecatching, methinks. (Filthy mind, woo!)
Anything ending in an 's' followed by 'exposed' would be quite eyecatching, methinks. (Filthy mind, woo!)