LIT me explain u a thing...about literature news

There is a lot of it.

My, my, my, 2014 you've ended. Thank you for ending, you gave us lots of nice things though, even if you were jerkish at times. Either way you gave us lots of good literature goodness, so I suppose I won't complain too much. Much. MUCH.

News makes me crazy. I was crazy once and then they locked me in a room and then the news came...Anyways, this is the second part of the article series "LIT me explain u a thing" chronicling some of the things dA's Lit Community was up to in 2014!

Let me know when you're ready to dive into the article, I'll be here with you.

Also, please, please, PLEASE this. ♥

^{If you manage to make it through all of this and show me your favorite gif I'll put you in a drawing for a custom made literature tag(by me) or hug. Whichever you prefer.}

LIT me explain u a thing Jan - June 2014

July | August | September | October | November | December

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July

• A Smattering of Lit News is updated every so often and it a great way to skim through some of the most current news that is going on.
• July Flash Fiction Month was pretty darn radical. As usual.
• July Book Club: The Thief Lord [Updated]
• Publishing Opportunity 16 and Publishing Opportunity 17 which were publishing opportunities and stuff.
• Love Triangles & Love Angles because love is weird.
• July Features / Good Hooks seen on devART
• Historical Fiction Workshop was a great mid-year workshop about HISTORY. HISTORY IS IMPORTANT MY DEARS.
• The Literature Community Experiment VI was a cool thing resurrected by me, done originally by BeccaJS. She's hella cool yo.
• (July) Literary Almanac Monthly: Volume Four
• Being devious: A Guide to the dA Lit Community
• Literature Gallery Restructure its happening!

• PE: Lit Basics Round-Up
• Project Educate: Lit Basics Week
• Literary Terminology Guide
• PE: Literature Basics Settings
• Fighting the Bloat!
• Hitching a Ride with Dialogue
• What Is A Story?
• Everything You've Learned About Writing is a Lie
• PE Lit Basics: What is Creative Nonfiction?
• Dr. Editlove
• Choosing a Literary Format and Length
• Writer's Block: Of Course It's Real
• Writers' Block: The Myth
• When and How to Edit
• Emotions in Writing and How to Portray Them
• How to Stay Inspired and Focused on Your Writing
• PE: How to Make the Most of Your Lit on dA

• June Fan Fiction Contest Winners
• It WAS a hot one! Contest results!
• WRITTEN IN THE STARS- CONTEST RESULTS!!!
• July Lit Contests FTW!
• cahoodaloodaling 2014 In Cahoots Contest
• Flash Fiction Month 2014 - Week One Challenges, Week Two Challenges, and WritersWorkshop July Workshop: Flash Fiction Month
• The Great Lit Crit Event! was exactly as it sounds critique and it was an event.

• Writing FanFiction vs Original Fiction because it's not the same you guys.
• Emotional Attachment to an element in your story. Could be a character, maybe a setting. When it hits you, it hits you.
• What do you like in a villain? VILLAINS ARE NOT JUST EVIL FOR THE SAKE OF BEING EVIL.
• Your Favorite Book
• Young Writers "really, do you want to know how unrealistic your goals are? What exactly does thinking you're going to be a bestseller one day do for you?" 
• What's your story about? was an opportunity to share what your story was about.
• A load of craft?

August

• August Book Club: Carrie
• Opening Up Your Story: Tips and Advice because opening up a story is one of the most important parts.
• August Features/Good Hooks on devART wheeeee, good hooks. Hooked you on that one, eh?
• Tips: How to get started with the lit community! Confused about the big literature community? START HERE.
• Being Unscientific with SRSmith which really means sorta scientific, but not really.
• E-books Publishing vs. Paper Publishing
• "what do you do to get back to your writing roots?" asks raspil
• Appreciation and the Community is all about appreciation as you need to appreciate the fact I'm also typing to you as well as link gathering.
• Thank you neurotype-on-discord for your time as Lit CV!  Operation: Throw the Cake [update] was when we said goodbye to beautiful Caek Lawd and threw cake at her so she wouldn't go hungry ever again.
• New Gallery Categories, self explanatory.
• Writer Resources and More
• PE Gallery Descriptions: Nonfiction, Demystifying the Poetry Gallery, Lit: Characters and Settings, and Fan Fiction On deviantART

• Historical Fiction Workshop - Pre Workshop Post, Week 1, Prep Week, and Week 2, Sources  and Historical Fiction Workshop - Week 3, Writing
• Great Lit Crit Event: Community Comment Countdown, CCC: Challenge #2 - Lit Tutorials!, and CCC: Challenge #3 - Commenting in Groups
• RAoK Fan Fiction Contest Winners
• Setting the Scene - Workshop where you, gasp, practice writing a scene. omigawsh.
• 7 Deadly Sins Project: Last Week! [6 Word Stories Only] was an event revolving around the 7deadly sins and six word stories. Fun. ;D
• 'billboard of butterflies' was a poetry only contest.
• RESULTS! Micro Colour Contest was a short spur of the moment contest.

• What is good literature? Do you know?
• Anonymous vs. In Person
• Do editors and writers need dirty minds? Short answer: duh.
• What are you editing? was a discussion about, surprise, editing. 
• Poets: Are you reading poetry? You better be, if not get out. Right now. Right. Now.
• What does pedantry achieve? idek whatevs.

September

• SEPT. Book Club: The Perks of Being A Wallflower
• Sept. Features/Good hooks seen on devART Old man Jenkins wants you to read these.
• doodlerTM Reads: Vol. 1, Issue 1, Summer 2014 has some good book reviews.
• Writing Effective Dialogue because lets face it speaking is difficult. D:
• Poetry Form: Dodoitsu is a article detailing the poetry form.
• Operation: Throw the Cake Results where we threw cake at the Cake Lord and she did not smite us.
• September 2014 Chat Tour Chatty goodness and September stuff.
• Secret Origins Of The Lord Of The Rings

• The Great Lit Crit Event: Results!
• All Hallow's Tales Contest 2014 - CAMERA OBSCURA
• Mini-Contest - 4 Entries - CLOSED a nice little mini-contest.
• The Writers Smile Project was a sweet little project where you wrote to another person you cared for.
• ABC's of Lit Community Project started in September.
• OfOneSoul's Weekly Forum Lit. Contests
• Bestest Friend Contest was hosted by myself and DreamingAutumn.
• Ye Pirate Tales AVAST YE BE WALKIN' THA PLANK IF YE DON'T CHECK OUT THIS ONE.
• Unbirthday Contest Results!
• Historical Fiction Workshop- Week 4, Redaction

• Backstory vs lore and what you do with it
• Are you more comfortable writing an MC of your own gender or ok with both? A good question to ask yourself.
• Inspi-no. Just. No.
• So who's up for NaNoWriMo? Oh yeah that's in November. Ew. I mean, woo.

October

• October Book Club: Selections from Lovecraft
• FocusOnLit - What is it?
• Madefire Motion Book Day where they made a day for motion books. Cool, right?
• To Research or Not to Research? which means research.
• Oct. Features/More Good Hooks on dA because argh, ye be Captain of this hear vessel.
• As of Right Now, What Do You Feel The Needs of Our Literature Community Are? was a great discussion on what the needs of the Lit Community are. More gifs, I say.
• I Can Has All Your Characters and Clive Barker Wants To Read Your Writing
• SingingFlames is is temporarily accepting LITERATURE DD suggestions Lisa is really nice you dears, like really nice, you should send her suggestions.
• Punctuation, Clauses, Sentences and Lists Oh, I like this, especially lists. Lists are my friend. DO YOU KNOW I LIKE LISTS?!?!?!?!?!
• Recent Publications and Triumphs!
• Introducing Project S.E.A. a great, great project. Check it out. Go on, I'll wait.

• October 2014 Features, Contests and Events is the stuff it says it is. Wow, don't make me type it out for you.
• Summer Mini-Contest results, 2014 Yay, mini contests are so much fun.
• Ready, Set, NaNo! YAY OMG NANO IS DURING THIS MONTH. DID YOU PARTICIPATE I CANT STOP TYPING IN CAPS SEND HALP.
• ABC's of Lit. Forms 'S' and ABC's of Lit Community Project
• The Last ScreamPrompt is posted, that means you should kick yourself and go back and do one of the 50.
• October Contests FTW!
• Ghost Stories Lit. Contest
• All Hallow's Tales Contest 2014 - CAMERA OBSCURA Spook, spook, totes.
• Billboard of Butterflies Contest Results yay results.
• The 50 Prompt Challenge (2014 FFM Prompt Bank!)
• Bestest Friend Contest Winners because everyone loves winners.
• Lili's 27th Birthday Contest! held every year. Though she doesn't turn 27 every year, she's just been holidng a contest on her birthday for a while now. Oh you know what I meant.
• Holiday Horrors--A Contest was  a 2spook contest.
• Month-aversary Contest! was a contest celebrating a monthaversary on DA.

• What are Common Mistakes New Writers Make? because lets face it, they're newbs and are gonna make mistakes. Lots of them usually.
• Inebriation and writing discusses drunkenness and writing. Well a little bit differently than that, but yeah. 
• What makes a good horror story effective? I know because I read this thread, do you?
• So who's up for NaNoWriMo?

November

• November Book Club: Bridget Jones' Diary
• PinkyMcCoversong had her chapbook published!
•   PE: Rewriting a Transcript, as Prose!
•   How to Make the Most out of Lit Groups because if you're a group member of a group it's important to know what you'll get out of the group. AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO GIVE.
•   Conquista de um Sonho and Pursuit of a Dream from techgnotic so they're interesting.
•   Nov. Features/Good Hooks on devART is something you should read since good hooks are super important. Maybe you'll even find something to favorite! 
•   One of the hardest things is Getting Your Story Written (Not Thought)
•   ALL ABOUT GRIMFACE242 who is super cool you guys. Super. Cool.
• More updates on Project S.E.A 
•   Literary Justification: All Writers Are Groovy You should look at this too.
•   Review - Miss Prince by PuddingValkyrie
• Review - Works, by Bark was a review of a book by Bark. Did I really need to explain that?

•   Lung Cancer Awareness: Finding Your Courage was a great contest about finding your courage. Why didn't you join in and write something? Shameful.
•   3 Word Contest November 2014   using 3 only 3 words what kind of a lit piece would you write?
• SilverInkblot's Critique Contest was really nifty. You should have participated because contest. Prize. Critique!
• DFC 2014 Form Chart Don't know what DFC stands for? CLICK THE LINK.

•   Poetry about love  "Have you ever written poetry about the combination of cheap booze, social norms and oxytocin we know as love?  How did you get on?  Any tips for avoiding the thoroughly sick-making?"
•   The Gender Transformed Fairy Tales Challenge is as cool as it sounds. Check it.
• Character Development Questions are questions. About character development. Must I tell you this, why can't you just click?!
• Pantsing; Planning; Pants-Planning?  A bit of advice in this thread. Which are you? I'm (mainly) a pantser because I'm a lazy silly head. You shouldn't be like me, kids.
• Deus Ex Machina (And Other Fallbacks) What do you use as your fallback? Don't tell me you don't, because you do.

December

• If You Could DD... Literature was a fantastic project that encouraged deviants to make a feature of what THEY would DD if they could DD LITERATURE. aka suggestion fest for CVs
• Community Feature Project: If I Could DD Fan Fiction same as above but about FAN FICTION.
• December Book Club: Wild Iris, a poetry collection
• PinkyMcCoversong is having another chapbook come out soon (2015)!
• A video game about writing fiction is exactly like it sounds.
• Clive Barker Has Chosen. What has he chosen? Click to find out. Like I would tell you.
• Happy Holidays/Good Hooks on dA/Features
• The Problem with 'Being a Writer'
• Artists on Writers - No. 5, Charles Dickens
• If You Could DD Literature... (Results)
• 2015/More Good dA Hooks/Features

• theWrittenRevolution's Mentorship Project Is Back! and you should totes check it out. Now.  It's also open to non-members.
• LiliWrites' Birthday Contest Winners! Woo, winner winners. C:
• Critmas 2014! This year it is going to be big and sparkly! CRITMAS CRITMAS CRITMAS
• Ye Pirate Tales: results MORE WINNARS.
• Digging Through The Dusty Dictionary: Prompt I is a prompt. WOOHOO.
• Prompt 1: KISS is another prompt, but is about keeping it simple.
• December Contests FTW!
• Improvement Writing Prompt (updated) Moar prompts. ALL THE PROMPTS.
• The December Form Challenge! Like forms? Don't like them? Do this anyways.
• Love Letters Contest ends.

• Interruptions to Reading Focus aka what happens when you read and the author does something to mess up your focus.
• Word Game! is a game where you make poetry using words. (It's more fun than I make it out to be though.)
• Words You Won't Use
• What makes a story complete?
• Share the first lines or paragraph of your WIP story

Feature / Interview Articles Posted

• wednesday recs
• 17.12.2014 - Words on Wednesday VIII
• Friday Fours Fave Features
• Saturday Spotlight for December 6th, 2014
• doodlerTM Reads: Vol. 1, Issue 2, Fall 2014
• .: Weekly Standouts Vol. 3
• Adjusting The Antennae (Ep. 17)
• Be A Critic: NemoX7
• Fan-Fiction-Tastic News #16
• The Ladies of Lit: Volume XLIX
• December Literary Almanac Monthly: Volume Nine
• 30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XXIV
• Love dA Lit Loves You: Vol. 10
• +WriterWatch (12) with C-A-Harland
• BibLITotheque 4: Stage Cues
• Literarily Speaking December Collab

  HAVE A HUG, YOU DESERVE IT. I DESERVE IT, WE DESERVE EACH OTHER. BE MY FRIEND. There was more going on, but I can't cram anymore into the article because sta.sh has a limit and I can't break that limit. EVEN I DO NOT HAVE THESE POWERS. D: Now, there are plenty of things for you to do to get involved in the Lit Community, so I encourage and challenge you to get out there and participate. Also big props to TheMaidenInBlack who used her gorgeous visionary powers to make sure this article wasn't written too badly. She's a savior, go hug her.

Now what about this year? Feel free to send me things you find throughout January and into June or pictures/gifs of silly things because I like silly things and so does this article. Does it need more silly gifs? Man crushes that are a go? That is all up to you. Oh yeah.

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