I've been leaving it til the last minute to announce this. Please come alone to my QnA, being held in the Litplease chatroom, at 9 am Saturday EST US. Do your time conversions ladies and gentlemen and support this new fledgling room and me, as I make my QnA debut.



Jes is of the RANDOM

Well since I’m bed ridden and not allowed to move from this room of four white walls and a ceiling fan, I thought I might write a more involving journal than usual.
Over the past month I have been cleaning out my dA note inbox for something random to do during my study breaks. It has seen the highest and lowest points of my time as the poprocking crit slave and I enjoyed the trip down memory lane immensely. I have decided to share a summary of what I found:

STATS

Most noted female: `Beccalicious, with 63 notes sent straight to her lovely profile at one time or another.

Most noted male: `fleet21, with 49 notes buzzing his inbox with thrilling subject lines as “Bored” “no subject” and “The late note of latington.”

Critique Requests: 46 – All those people who say that deviants don’t want critique, well explain that, hmm?

“What the fuck happened to damnLit” notes: 17

“Congrats on becoming a senior” notes: 5

“You don’t deserve to be a senior” notes: 2

Bitch-fight notes: 27

Competitions: 12

Community based: 58

Notes of an undisclosed nature: 46

Total notes before I deleted the majority: 325

DRAMA LlAMA
My inbox has seen a fair bit of drama; from bitch fights, bar fights, chat wars, debates about verbatim, chat closures, accusations pertaining to over reactions on part of a very silly person and just plain rantifying. This isn’t terribly shocking, considering my somehow high socio-political profile in the chat network over the past couple years and all around literary involvement; I have the tendency to go to bat for friends even when I’m not originally involved. Call it blind loyalty.

Highlights:

damnLit: Can I just begin by saying how much I miss this room? I might be biased (quite possibly in point of fact) but damnLit was the best thing to hit the LitChat channel since #coffeehouse was operating. It worked so well and seamlessly, I didn’t have to often moderate and there were always people having a good time and talking literature on a critical and enjoyable level. I miss you damnLit, reading over all those what the hell happened notes really brought it back to me and my proverbial tear ducts.

Seniority: To the couple people who noted me to say how much I didn’t deserve a tick next to my name, thanks for putting so much thought into it, really. It gives me the greatest sense of amusement that people would care THAT much.
Everybody enjoy that? Goodo.



Newest Featured Deviant Superstar of Awesomeness:

=bekkia: For a while I’ve noticed this name pop up and snap back into obscurity just as quickly, either on the competition circuit or the journals of friends. It wasn’t until a couple of days ago that I engaged her dA user page for some quality pondering and skimming (I do not read unless I mean to critique --- compulsions are hard to ignore even when I’m trying to enjoy myself). Well, I almost kicked myself. If you haven’t already been, seen and added, I demand you do so now. I don’t ask very much from you guys (besides that you note me your souls for my casual feasting) but I really do think that =bekkia is an ideal addition to your watchlist. And if you’re going to comment on her work, please don’t leave comments akin to:

OMG, Lyk ur wrtng is sooo AWESum, u rock!

With good spelling or bad, if you do, there will be hell to pay.

Competitions and Articles by =bekkia:

Thing you absolutely have to do, and frankly, you have no excuse not to!

Can you tell a story? Do you think you have what it takes to wow the (insert article of clothing here) off =bekkia and her mysterious staff? Do you like to write florid prose disguised by plot and intrigue? If so, read this: [link] fave it and enter. You know you want to; you do, I know you do...

Before you flee to your word processor, read and favourite this as well: [link]

And donate to the same competition through this poll: [link]




Lit – Pimpage


There are some awesome competitions happening for all you Aussie and Kiwi deviants out there!

The Text Prize
David Harold Tribe Fiction Award

And one for the poets among us!

Blake Poetry Prize


dA Happenings

Turn your craptacular NaPo poems into something worth shining and sitting on your lit mantle in the GM endorsed competition April Showers, May Flowers. You’ve got to be in it, to win it!
For more dA happenings, keep your twitterbugs tuned into everybody’s favourite little blue bird, Lit-Twitter!!!

Charity

Please get your typing finger, writing fingers or pencil fingers ready and rocking to participate in one of the most worthy writing projects out there, in my opinion. Self harm is a very real problem in our society. Please follow this link:[link] for more details.

My good friend *poisonedroseis Racing for Life! No, no, a psycho isn't after her, relax. Please dig deep into your pockets and give a few quid to support Jobie as she huffs and puffs to the finish line for Cancer Research [link]




Crit List

Psychosis: Prologue by, *StolenWater
Grief Withdraws, Anger Suffers, by =julietcaesar
Adriel – Frozen Judgement, by *Asaf-e
Wanderlust, by `conorschild
C.O.D, by ~guiltywhiteboy
One Word: Square, by =underaoised
And all those who responded with links on my poll


Assignments to do:

DONE: Creative Piece for Experimental Writing, plus development rationale.
DONE: Essay for Experimental Writing.
DONE: Report Outline for Factual Media.
DONE: Case Study for Factual Media.
DONE: Report for Factual Media.
DONE Essay for Australia, Asia and Globalisation
DONE: Scene Breakdowns for Screenwriting.
DONE TV Pilot for Screenwriting.
DONE Fully Functional Design ePortfolio
DONE Rationale for Design ePortfolio
DONE: A bunch of short answer questions, spread across the five units of study.

If I think of anything else, I’ll add it later.


Jes


<<<(Doesn't =bekkia rock?)