February Literature Newsletter

There were a lot of exciting events going on here at CRLiterature last month, which definitely kept all of us on our toes, and hopefully the members of the literature community active and informed. Our Prose Basics Week with projecteducate was a lot of fun and a big success and we thank all who helped out with it.  We also sadly had to say good-bye to the always wonderful and inspirational BeccaJS, who left the CV team after many terms of helping out with being a voice in the literature community. A busy start to 2014, but it hopefully is only the tip of the iceberg of things to come.

Blogs from CRLiterature

• Literature Articles You Should Know
• THANK YOU, BECCA
• Results: Literature Community Chat Event
• Literature DD Roundup - January
  

Writing Exercises and Contests

• Be a Critic: MatthewKoon
• Be a Critic: saltwaterlungs
• Romancing Romantics Poetry Contest
• Historical Flash Fiction Contest
  

Contest Results, Features, and Other News

• Critmas: The Results!
• Daily Lit Deviants of January 2014
• Love dA Lit: Issue 154
• Love dA Lit: Issue 155
• Love dA Lit: Issue 156
• League of Lit Groups: Vol. 9

The Lit. Forum

• But I've Been Writing Forever!
• How Do You Pick Pieces to Critique?
• The Big Fat Rejection Stack
• Where Have You Recently Submitted Work for Publication? 2014 Edition!

Have an interesting topic that could be discussed in the Literature Forum? Post it!

Community Relations and dA News

• Did You Know? - Your Featured Gallery
• Project Educate: Getting Involved

Prose Basics Week Articles

• Introducing Prose Basics
  
• Hear Me My Audience!!
• Formatting for the Interweb Era
• "Said" and Effective Dialogue Tags
• Hook, Line, and Sinker: How to Start Your Story
• Passive Voice vs Active Voice
• Pacing (and Show vs. Tell)
• Readymades (Hallmarks of Lazy Writing)
• Colloquialism: You down with it?
• Revise and Edit
• Varying Sentences
• Making the Most of the Words You Use
• What is Voice, Anyway?
• Prose Basics Wrap Up

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