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Submit Your News to CRLiterature!

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 8:53 PM
Now you can submit your literature community news directly to #CRLiterature's journal! We're super excited about this because it allows us to streamline our news. Time-sensitive activities are less likely to fall through the cracks, and deviants will have to click through less stuff to find your news. Your article will go directly to watcher and member inboxes allowing them to see the headline and description.

As a hub this is a great step in the right direction. Watchers will have an easier time discovering news, activities, and events outside of their watch list. Instead of figuring out if you're watching all the right people and hunting down your lit news, it will come to you.

If you're newer, or not as well known, to the literature community, submitting will help you reach more active and interested deviants. In turn, it's an opportunity to increase your participation levels. :eager: And you know we're all about participation!


Approval Process


This is a great feature on dA, but only when used appropriately. We want to prevent abuse from inappropriate or irrelevant journal posts, and we want to avoid spamming message centers with a flood of journals at one time. To handle those issues, we've implemented a staff voting system.

Our staff members will review each journal submission and vote to accept or reject it based on our loose criteria. Each journal will require two "Yes" votes from staff to be accepted.


Journal / News Criteria
:bulletpink: Literature related
:bulletpink: Follows dA’s rules
:bulletpink: Open to community involvement
:bulletpink: Worth promoting
:bulletpink: Factual! :new:

What does "open to the community involvement" and "worth promoting" mean? Well, it means it is applicable and available for the community to participate or appreciate in some way. For instance, if you're running a contest and only your three friends are allowed to participate, there is little point in advertising in #CRLiterature. It won't help your contest, and there is no need for members to know about it. :no:

If your contest is open to your group members (assuming your group membership is open), or deviants in general, that's a different story. We'd love to promote that! We're also interested in discussion articles, events, activities, anything interactive, or even plain old informative.

:new: Staff members will glance over informative articles to ensure they're factual. Having supporting information and references will benefit everyone.

These guidelines are very basic because we never know what the literature community will come up with! We don't want to stifle promotion of your fantastic news with a billion rules and hoops to jump through. As an added measure, we've carefully selected our approval staff who have done their fair share of activity promotion. Through experience they're familiar with all the hard work you put into your projects and have plenty of latitude for their votes.


Submitting Instructions


Edit: We've discovered that submitting through stash requires at least contributor status in the group. All is not lost, however! You can submit the old fashioned way directly through our journal.

1. Go to our journal page:  [link] 

2. In the top right hand corner of the latest journal posted there is a button with a + symbol on it. Click that.

3. That button should have brought up the journal submission fields that you're likely familiar with already. Simply copy and paste the information for your article in the appropriate fields.

4. Once you're finished, click the "Submit" button.

5. Return to your message center. Under "Correspondence" your journal should be submitted and waiting for approval. If it's not, start again at step 1 because something went wrong.


If you have any questions, please let us know!

#CRLiterature Staff :heart:


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=QuiEstInLiteris Apr 13, 2013  Professional Writer
Dumb touchpad. I wasn't done yet. >(
So, I'm currently hosting a giveaway on Goodreads. Would that count? :3
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`thorns Apr 15, 2013   Writer
I'm not sure. Do you have stuff posted about it on dA to submit to the group? With something like this (where time may be an issue), I'd submit and see what happens. Worst case scenario staff declines. :dummy:
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=QuiEstInLiteris Apr 15, 2013  Professional Writer
I've got it in my journal and a teaser bit thing as a deviation. I can like, copypasta the dooble. :la:
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=QuiEstInLiteris Apr 13, 2013  Professional Writer
Ooh. Coolbeans.
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=HillsOfMyst Apr 13, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
I understand why you wouldn't want DLD articles because there's just too many and it would flood the watchers, but what about a weekly feature? Would that be alright to submit, since it's only once a week?

Though I agree with =LadyofGaerdon, I wouldn't like having two articles, since it gains more attention by the number of faves it gets. Is this the kind of thing I could submit to the gallery instead?
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`thorns Apr 13, 2013   Writer
I would note the group with specifics so the staff can consider it more fully. (Some may be appropriate, while others may not.)

That is a bit of an issue and we're hoping eventually dA will make adjustments for this. :fingerscrossed: In the mean time, some deviants link their post here to their original article to encourage people to fav and comment on that one.
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`thetaoofchaos Dec 9, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Are DLD articles considered worth promoting in this fashion? Or did you have in mind mainly contests and non-feature lit news?
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`thorns Dec 10, 2012   Writer
I think special articles (events, call for staff, or awareness article) would make the most sense. We don't want to flood watchers with one group. :)
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`thetaoofchaos Dec 10, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Understood. Thanks. It would be cool to figure out a way to get the two groups to be more involved with each other. :)
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=LadyofGaerdon Aug 16, 2012  Professional Writer
I don't like this because if I do it that way there will be two articles instead of one. Less likely to make the footer. Also, my html won't copy properly from sta.sh. :(

Great idea guys, but I think implementation needs work. Not your fault of course, it's the system. If I think of some way to improve it, I'll let you know. :hmm:
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