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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

Write and Revise Contest: Part 1You thought we were going to let you rest after the Summer Contest, huh? Wrong! We're back with a two-parter to hopefully get you both creating and editing, as all good writers must. This contest is brought to you by =VertigoArt, who has rejoined the ranks of DLD as our contest and affiliate admin!

Please go give him some love.
Part 1: Go Wild!
The first part of the contest is relatively simple: write something. It can be a journal, a stream of consciousness, a scrap of a poem, an idea you've had for ages or one that comes to you in a burst of inspiration.
This part of the contest is open from August 11th to ~~September 11th, 2012~~ October 11th, 2012.
If you need some help getting started check out prompts set up by our affiliate groups, #Live-Love-Write listed in their blog here: http://live-love-write.deviantart.com/blog/ and #theWrittenRevolution archived here: http://thewrittenrevolution.deviantart.com

People and Portraits Exposed #7
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Literature DD Roundup- November 2012Greetings everyone!
In all honesty, I have no idea where November has gone! However, we have still managed to pull out a wonderful array of Daily Deviations for Literature this month and here is our roundup of all those brilliant features!
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Features by ^Beccalicious

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Features by ^neurotype

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Features by ^NicSwaner

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Transgressions: Vices and Virtues Winners#lacoterie is very pleased to announce the winners of our 2nd annual Transgressions contest!
We'd like to thank our lovely judges: `raspil, =TwilightPoetess, *SurrealCachinnation, ^neurotype, =LadyofGaerdon, `Kneeling-Glory and ~angeljunkie, as well as everyone who donated prizes/features and participated in the contest.
You can read all of the contest entries in the Prose and Poetry folders.
First Place

PROSE
`Memnalar, The Chandler's Around The Way

Zombie Monkey Plush from ~angeljunkie (prose & poetry)

2 critiques from ^neurotype

1 critique from `Kneeling-Glory
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Art History Project- September is Literature!

30/08/12: Almost ready to launch! Alongside this month, `GrimFace242 is conducting a series of cheeky lit interviews for Art History, so keep an eye out for what he uncovers!
There are still lots of slots for people to submit articles too! Don't forget, we can have more than one article on the same day! Please get those proposals in! Who is your favourite author? What Book/Poem has had the most influence on you? Bring it on!
24/08/12: Hey guys, we're still looking to fill this up nice and meaty! Don't forget, the articles don't have to be as in depth as some of you are thinking and can be about specific authors, styles or even something different such as interviews or chat event (get your lit group involved!).
If you're not sure about your idea, please still send it in, we have a wonderful crack commando unit who are helping for crimes they didn't commit in the backroom. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, you can use this team!

Also, those who

To Be Seen .13A weekly article featuring five photographers from all areas in the deviantART community. Spare a bit of time to take a gander at the photographs and their respective galleries showcased below!
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~HanaKanashii

~Sniper-LTU

~LukasSowada

If you have any suggestions for (improving) the Photography Gallery, anything photography related in #communityrelations that you would

Write and Revise Part 2To Revise
This portion of the contest is open to anyone who is not judging. It is best f you have already submitted something to revise in the first part, but if not you can note =VertigoArt with the piece and he will determine whether or not you may participate with that piece. Ideally the piece you are revising is a free write that you are taking from conception to perfection, but any piece that is not polished fully will do.
The winner of the first portion of this contest will be on even ground with everyone else in this portion.
The deadline for entries is December 7, 2012

Rules
Entries must include a link to this contest article in the artist's comment.
Entries must include a t

Prose Blood Country and Poetry Screams!Greetings one and all, spooky and weird, sadistic and psychotic!
Yes we're talking about the Literature community! Writers from all backgrounds, we have the pleasure of sharing with you not one spooky Halloween contest, but TWO! Both contests have been created by community members and have awesome themes, so awesome we're encouraging you all to enter them!
All Hallows Tales: Blood Country
Hosted by `Memnalar
Deadline for Entries: 22nd October 2012
"This is a Halloween-inspired, Literature-only contest asking for submissions of PROSE FICTION around the theme of Blood Country, or the horrors that await unsuspecting victims in the far-flung, remote corners of the world, from back roads to the summit of Everest to the bottom of the ocean. Cell phones don't work. Help isn't coming, and the flashlight battery is starting to give out. What happens now? Maybe you'll tell me. Maybe you won't live that long."

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[CLOSED] The Alternate Universe Contestthis contest is now closed.
do NOT note me!
I will have to tell you it's not valid, and that'll make me sad.

With a tip of the hat to all the people who came up with alternate universes as a way to explore awesome, impossible ideas...I bring you the alternate universe contest for original literature!
This contest is open from January 18-February 18 (PST, aka dA time). No extensions.
The process is simple.
Start with one of your own stories. It doesn't have to be super-fleshed out, but it does need to be written down in some form, even if it's as simple as a series of character sketches and the world they live in.Change something important. There's a lot of options. Ask yourself 'what if X had happened differently' and go from there. Aside from changing key plot points, you may want to significantly alter a character (yes, genderbending is acceptable).
Write it down! Not completely willy-nilly; there will be guidelines, of course. Oh my stars and gart

Photography Weekly: Edition FortyPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity..."
As the year crawls into the final quarter - lots of challenges and daily photo tasks and so on begin to conclude. I have personally been challenging myself with the 365 Photography challenge - a photo a day for a whole year. It has been tricky to say the least, especially as I set myself a high standard of capturing more than one Photo a day - but also rewarding. Setting yourself a challenge, whether it's following the 52 week photography challenges that are out there, or doing a themed challenge such as 365 breakfasts - is a great way of expanding on your portfolio. Whilst it sometimes means that you struggle to find anything interesting to photograph or share, on the days that you do, you're one step closer to building another aspect of your portfolio.
Next week in Photography Troubleshooting - we will be looking at Money Matters and so

Photography Fortnightly: Edition Forty Nine
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"Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase"
- Percy W. Harris
The other week, a piece of my writing was selected for a Daily Literature Deviation. If you're curious you can see the article here. I was humbled by that, but my reason for mentioning it in Photography Bi-weekly is that *0hgravity then highlighted a website to me that I found absolutely fascinating. It's soul purpose is to highlight Endangered Languages through Photography. 3170 lens are capturing the people who hold the key to the worlds most secret languages. Once again something like this highlights the complete and utter importance of Photography and reminds us of how far we've come, and how much we can do from mobile ph

Photography Weekly: Edition Forty FourPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Creativity, like human life itself - begins in Darkness "
-Julia Cameron."
I read a very interesting article this week debating Photography Vs Literature and which one of the two tells us more. Of course there is always the element that a picture could be accompanied by words but neither aspect is enough to tell a whole story. But as the article says, Photography has become a universal constant in the world today and is accessible to nearly everybody. Yet many still believe that only pure narration can truly tell a story. What are your thoughts? As Photographers we can choose to limit what we tell or show with a photograph, we can even mislead. Can we convey more with words? Or more with an image? You could describe a person with words but never truly give an accurate picture of who they are visually without a photograph...

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DEAR TEEN ME: The Contest. (Warning: EPIC prizes!)

by ^Beccalicious, Oct 20, 2012, 3:15:31 AM
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This journal comes to you from `PinkyMcCoversong!

So you might have heard of this little book I co-edited called DEAR TEEN ME. It's an anthology of letters from authors to their teen selves. The authors in the anthology range from best-selling and award-winning authors to some fabulous up and comers. I know that no matter what, if you pick up the book, you'll find a letter or two (at least!) that speaks to you.

This is our fancy Amazon/Goodreads/B&N/Book Depository/Pick-your-bookseller blurb:

DEAR TEEN ME includes advice from over 70 YA authors to their teenage selves. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including physical abuse, body issues, bullying, friendship, love, and enough insecurities to fill an auditorium. So pick a page, and find out which of your favorite authors had a really bad first kiss? Who found true love at 18? Who wishes he’d had more fun in high school instead of studying so hard? Some authors write lists, some tell a story, and a few graphic novelists turn their stories into visual art. And whether you hang out with the theater kids, the band geeks, the bad boys, the loners, the class presidents, the delinquents, the jocks, or the nerds, you’ll find friends–and a lot of familiar faces–in the course of DEAR TEEN ME.

But enough about the book. YOU want to know how to win things. YOU want a writing prompt. YOU want to get involved!

Here's the deal. There are two sections of this contest. One is for over 18s ("adults") and one os for under 18s ("teens").

Adults: To enter the contest, post a letter to your teen self and submit it to [link]
Teens: To enter the contest, post a letter to your adult self and submit it to [link]

RULES! WE NEED RULES:

Your entries should be between 500 and 1500 words long. And they should be awesome. Got it?

No visual art, fanfiction, poetry, scripts or full length novels/memoirs. Letters only, and within the word count guidelines

Pieces created for other contests will be disqualified.

Please, only one entry per person. We will only consider one entry and it will be the first you enter so do us all a favor and only enter ONCE and make it your BEST.

For examples of some of our favorite letters, check out DearTeenMe.com. My co-editor Miranda Kenneally and I love these letters because they not only are full of emotive description and wise advice, but they also have a strong narrative element -- they tell a story. We love so many letters, but ones like Lisa Burstein's, Sarah Ockler's Saundra Mitchell's, Gene Brenek's, Carrie Jones's, A.S. King's Charles Benoit's, and Holly Green's make our world go round. Check these -- and more! -- out for inspiration.

Get your letter in that folder by November 20!

The contest will be judged by me, `PinkyMcCoversong, as well as readers $wreckling, ^neurotype, ~Vocable, and =Cassildra.

We will have a first and second place winner along with two honorable mentions! Check out the EPIC PRIZES!

First place prizes include: A prize pack of Zest books including DEAR TEEN ME signed by various authors in the anthology (and ME!); a1 year premium membership, a laptop bag [link], and an accessory pack [link] from dA; AND two 8x12 prints of photos by this chick E. Kristin Anderson (`PinkyMcCoversong) (seen below).

Second place prizes include: A signed copy of DEAR TEEN ME; a 6 month premium membership, and a laptop bag [link] from dA; AND one 8x12 matte print of each of the above photos by E. Kristin Anderson.

Honorable mention prizes include: A signed copy of DEAR TEEN ME; and 3 month premium membership and
an accessory pack [link] from dA.

PLUS, we will PROBABLY post some of our favorite letters on DearTeenMe.com. JUST SAYIN'!

Lots of prizes worth competing for! And yes, there will be one ADULT winner and one TEEN winner in each category (first, second, honorable mention).

Please leave your questions below! And get writing!