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“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”  ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Don't panic, it's a stressful time for a lot of writers, but that's why we write. NaNoWriMo is easily one of the more terrifying events which wants you to do a lot of writing. Some people choose to write an entire novel and some people choose to do otherwise. The fun thing about this event is a lot of people are doing it and a lot of people are just as scare

...first of course, our Monochromatic winners! 1st place: Ninelyn (https://www.deviantart.com/ninelyn) with: 2nd place: ElyneNoir (https://www.deviantart.com/elynenoir) with For our December Challenge: Theme: Holidays. This does not have to be specifically Christmas - for example if you celebrate Hanukkah, that is fine too. Any "winter" holiday will work :) Dates:    The submission folder will be open from today until 28.December.2014    you can submit your works in THIS FOLDER! Rules: Entries must have been created in 2014 Images must fit the theme [Holidays] It must follow Still-Life-Stills group rules Only ONE [1] submission per person You need to be a member of the group to participate. Prize

Welcome to the Oct - Nov edition of  Photography News  which has been collated for you courtesy of Kaz-D (https://www.deviantart.com/kaz-d), 3wyl (https://www.deviantart.com/3wyl) and Mrs-Durden (https://www.deviantart.com/mrs-durden). Please :+fav: the article, share it and enjoy it! You could be in next months article - just send CRPhotography (https://www.deviantart.com/crphotography) a note! Becoming a photographer, whether professional or amateur, brings with it a whole world of equipment, projects, subjects - and often the legalities of it all. Petapixel has just recently published an article highlighting 8 Legal cases that every photographer should know. How many did you already know before looking at the article? The Sony World Photography award winners have bee

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                                  :heart: To spread creativity! :heart: I´m very happy to announce the fourth "Get Supplied!":squee: And to celebrate this there are now 4 Sets up for grasps! Again I tried my best to set up some material-sets, two of them are again up for grasps because so many of you guys seemed interested^^ I really hope you´ll find something usefull or something you want to try!:heart: What is this about?o.o This giveaway is supposed to spread creativity and to give you the chance to start with a new kind of crafting by winning a free set of materials:la: How often will this giveaway happen? I will try to ma

November is approaching fast and Mirz123 (https://www.deviantart.com/mirz123) and I are happy to announce that the November NaNoEmo (https://www.deviantart.com/nanoemo) will be running this year! What is NaNoEmo? NaNoEmo (https://www.deviantart.com/nanoemo) is a fun emoticon challenge hosted every November to match up with NaNoWriMo in the literature community. Over the last 3 years we have had a fair number of emoticonists taking part and some fantastic emotes appearing all through the designated month. The main purpose of the challenge is to encourage emoticonists to make emotes throughout the month of November. The most common challenge undertaken is to make 30 emotes in 30 days, though others choose to set alternative targets whic

Artists Tools! Huge thanks to all those involved in the latest Artist's Tools week - we've had some fabulous articles which have covered a huge range of topics. If you missed anything then please do check out the articles below and show the love!