For all of the featured artists: If you receive a DD for one
of your pieces featured by DLD please note `Kneeling-Glory.
We will include you and your piece in a special recognition news article.

Poetry

_{Featured by `thetaoofchaos}

Liar, LiarIf l'appel du vide
is the urge to drown
all sense of self - to split
and accumulate bruises -
then to fabricate fables, to
forge fictions as I do
is nothing more than
poor impulse control.

I do not mean to confuse
or abuse the truth. My lies
are like thalidomide -
junkyard art shoved into being,
or the shards of
gasping hearts breaking
out of code. Making mundane myths
a la mort, a la mode; I'm caught

in distortion, pretty as drugs.
Junkie; addict. Liar, liar,
I require a fix of fiction -
the lies I tell and spin to sell.
(Some tears, a loose tooth,
the unravellings of truth.
The sum of myself out of
all that's left to
"Liar, Liar" by ~angel-in-pieces

_{To paraphrase a comment by the artist,
a good thing about having so many confessions
to make is making them into art. Here, you
will find that poetic honesty is the only
cure for the pathology of deceit.}

_{Suggested by =OritPetra
Featured by ~the-photographicpoet}

AbsenceYou are far away again, yet you linger on in my house:
the scent of your perfume, the kitchenware sorted your way
and in the mattress: the hollow I curl up to at night.
"Absence" by ~PrettyCrazy

_{=OritPetra said that this poem
succinctly and poignantly pinpoints the
deep, deep ache that comes with separation,
absence and loss. A truly stunning sijo.}

_{Featured by: ~damina}

DismemberedYou're a butcher.
Dismembering;
With your cutting,
meat-cleaver words.
Rending flesh,
And the gristle and bone--
Cutting out hearts
Without mincing your phrases.
Branding any verbal opponent
As gutless and spineless
With such dry, bloodless wit.
Your crimson laugh
Spilling like a slashed throat;
Your favourite cuts of meat--
Always the cold shoulder
And sharp tongue.
"Dismembered" by: =rockgem

_{Filled with imagery and a wonderful
sense of wordplay, =rockgem delivers a metaphor
that twists the knife of hard words.}

Prose

_{Featured by: *Miss-S-Bird}

Rewritten RomanceI'd like to rewrite things the way they should have been. I'd like to believe that you were ripped away from me against your will. I'd like to start at the courtyard. That courtyard with the placid little pond and the moon gliding silently overhead. Let's say that it was jasmine clinging to the walls. And let's say that we were tranquil with wine.

We were speaking softly to each other. Plans about the future. Dreams I'd been conjuring from the time I was a girl. I was murmuring my hopes to the quiet night when, without warning, your fingers found my open palm and brushed against it with gentle ease. The sweet zing lit my arm on fire and the
"Rewritten Romance" by *OrenAsher

_{This beautiful piece of romance fiction
is very moving. The use of repetition in a phrase
is clever to heighten the emotions of the reader,
allowing them to participate in the torment
of the narrator.}

_{Suggested by `thorns
Featured by `GrimFace242}

Sentence Structure for FICTION

On Basic Sentence Structure for Fiction
(Grammar Nazis BEWARE!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Everything I ever learned about writing Fiction DIDN'T come from school; not even college. In fact, the way one writes fiction is almost the complete opposite of everything I learned in school about writing.

In order to make my stories crystal clear in my readers' imaginations, I write in precise Chronological Order, in the order events actually happen, PLUS in the order that the eye sees it.

Case in point, when describing a character, I describe them from top to bottom, in the order that the eye notices them. Face, hair, upper body, arms, hands, then lower
"Sentence Structure for FICTION" by *OokamiKasumi

_{This covers structural details that
even seasoned writers can miss and promotes
logic as opposed to blindly following rules.}

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to be featured, please visit us at =DailyLitDeviations.

Thanks so much for supporting the lit community and this project!

~ The =DailyLitDeviations Team ~

_{Prepared by: ~damina}

10 Comments

Daily Literature Deviations - April 4th, 2011by =DailyLitDeviations

Journals / Culture / Art Features

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=Marzzel Apr 5, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

I noticed that DA, has a pretty poor support for literature, it's just a category that almost nobody have the time to read. I know two people who are great at exposing their talents but their recognition is really poor.

We all can perceive how cool a drawing is executed because of the outlines, the trace of the pencil of the brushes, the color mixing, the magnificent effect of DOF in that photography, the latest technology to make that ultra realistic 3D render that everyone want to have as desktop wallpaper.
But how much time we take to analize this detailed a writen art, how cool executed is the story because of the line of events, the mix of feelings the characters express, the magnificent effect of lifting us up into the most surrealistic universe of probabilities, the latest occurence of a plot where everyone wants to be the hero of this story, maybe how deep you get identified with the person in that story?

It would be cool if somebody on the high administration of DA take a chance to think in how could it be solved, how to improve it. Because visual art is not all the art, we're leaving aside what it worth the same or maybe more than the visual art, it is literal art, the stories, what everyone think before a character is created, a comic strip, a movie, anything needs a background in order to born, and that background are lines of text, maybe in our minds maybe in a piece of sheet, maybe a huge plot of text, maybe few lines, but it goes before everything.

It's actually a precious experience when you read something and allow your mind to do the 'filmmaking' process, because did you ever notice when you read a story you can actually 'see' the scenes, 'hear' the sounds, 'perceive' the enviroment.

That's why big screen movies got a hit, not only because their amazing shots, visual effects nor because of how impressive the sound sounds in the theaters. It's because someone took the moment maybe years to write and describe from head to feet a character, described how the scene will be created, what the actors/actress will say how they will act, is the base of everything. Otherwise the story looks amazing but it won't stay in our minds for long.

Big feature films were there because big writters made an awesome job. There's where it all starts but it seems nobody seems to care.
Please, help the small writters from here to share their ideas, maybe there is someone who has a new golden talent but we're killing them because of our lack of support.

Maybe the road to walk is not that long, it is that we don't try to start with it.

If there is someone who support my thought please help me to spread the word and make more room for people with this poorly recognized talent.

Thanks to the few pals here who have time to read more, and give a little more of support.

Hugs everyone!

`thetaoofchaos Apr 17, 2011 Hobbyist Writer

I agree with you on all points. You're preaching to the proverbial choir here. Everyone that is involved with DLD supports a greater awareness and deeper exposure of literature on dA, as that is the axiom upon which the group exists and operates. By supporting DLD and other literature groups, and promoting the writing craft by offering to help writers with advice, critiques, and by offering suggestions to the lit GMs, and most of all by trying to foster a sense of community among the writers, I think we all can help raise the status of literature here.

=Marzzel Apr 17, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks, I support the movement and I'm a visual artist, but in my mind exist the idea that I couldn't create nothing if first I don't try to create a plot for that.
I actually decided to create a News about this you can check it out if you want, maybe give a "