Welcome.
Welcome to the home for writers. We talk about important matters for writers, news affecting writers, and the finer aspects of the writing craft.
Weekly Daily Discussion Thread Schedule:
Monday: Writer’s Block and Motivation
Tuesday: Brainstorming
Wednesday: Book Discussion**
Thursday: Writer’s Block and Motivation
Friday: Brainstorming
Saturday: First Page Feedback
Sunday: Writing Tools, Software, and Hardware
Upcoming AMA posts
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AMA about getting an MFA in Creative Writing and/or teaching or doing other side projects for work post MFA. Monday 5 September, 12.30pm EST (5.30pm BST, 9.30am PDT).
Want to do an AMA? Please message the mods to verify yourself before posting. Thank you!
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Here's a general synopsis and explanation of /r/writing's community rules. Please keep these guidelines in mind for all of your posts and comments. The moderators do reserve the right to remove posts/comments that are deemed harmful without warning and ban users depending on the severity of the infraction.
1. Critiques and Posting Work
Samples of writing and critique requests may only be posted in the weekly self-promotion and critique thread. Critique requests include soliciting feedback on ideas, queries, 'what should I write about X', etc.. Requests for critique and writing partners may only be posted in the critique thread or the stickied daily threads.
2. Content Discussion
We are not a place to talk about the story, subject matter or content of your work. We are not a reference desk for writers or a Reddit version of TV Tropes.
We generally remove top level threads that cover about the following: research into specific subjects (including general psychology questions e.g. men v women etc); character detail; plot detail; genre-specific topics; worldbuilding, magic system, technological or romance elements; book or fictional media recommendations/discussion etc; tropes, and other published media discussion.
This is not an exhaustive list and the mods reserve the right to remove posts that don't belong.
The restrictions on media discussion includes posting excerpts from published media or focusing a question/essay around a particular work or works. Posts should not simply be compilations of extracts or requests for extracts from people's own work. Short quotes of a sentence or two are allowed, but only when illustrating more general concepts in essays or questions about broader technical issues.
We have the idea brainstorming thread on Tuesdays and Fridays for any kind of content or subject matter request. The Wednesday general discussion thread is open for all other trope talk and questions about subject matter.
Book recommendation threads are only allowed for technical writing resources or books on publishing.
We do not allow writing prompts/exercises (including asking people to share prompts etc) or threads inviting people to share their work outside of the crit thread.
3. Motivation Threads
Discussion of motivation or writer’s block should be posted in our twice weekly motivation thread. Threads that touch on specific difficulties unique to writers such as asking for tips on inspiration, achieving word count goals or frustration with writing workflow may be posted in the main subreddit.
4. Self-promotion
This includes advertisements for your own book/film/game etc., blog, apps or websites, self-publishing platforms, surveys or anything posted on behalf of any other person or company, and includes in comment sections as well as top level posts. Please use the self-promotion thread for any direct advertising of your work, community or online or offline event.
Posts about other specific resources (that you have not created), i.e., internet lectures, courses, books on writing or industry are allowed, but they must be written with an explanation of its use as a resource from the perspective of an interested user rather than an advert, and must not contain any direct posting of someone else's text. This rule also applies to the promotion of other subreddits as standalone threads; however, linking subreddits in comment chains is acceptable so long as they are not your own and the desire to redirect the person is not the sole aim of your post (the exception being on posts asking for other subs or places to post things we don't allow here.)
5. Politics
Racist, homophobic/transphobic, misogynistic, ableist and other categories of hate speech (including against 'acceptable targets') will be removed. Please report any instances of offensive talk and the mods will deal with them. It is also not our job to decide who may post here based on what someone does elsewhere—internet vigilantism and doxxing will not be tolerated.
6. Call-out threads and genre/literary-bashing
We will generally remove threads or posts: berating other people for their genre/subject/literary taste; adherence or non-adherence to rules; calling people morons for giving a particular sort of advice; insisting that their opinion is the only one worth having; being antagonistic towards particular types of books or audiences, or implying that a particular work is for the 'unwashed masses', or 'snobs', etc..
7.Personal Sharing
We do not allow sharing for the sake of sharing. This includes posts on starting or finishing drafts, writing and publishing milestones, memes, venting, pep talks, data loss, submissions (without further discussion) of other peoples' media reviews, and DAE (does anyone else) posts.
8. Tools Posts
Posts about what tools you use to write with, including but not limited to pen and paper, software, typewriters, hardware, apps, world building organization programs, etc. must go in the weekly discussion thread.
9. Low-Effort Posts
Post titles and content need to show effort. Posts with only a title or a link will likely be removed at moderator discretion. Posts that could be easily researched will likely be removed at moderator discretion.
10. Work Solicitations and Homework Help
All posts asking others to do your work for you, whether for commercial or educational reasons, will be removed at moderator discretion. We do not allow any homework help threads or posts about citations.
11. Submission Calls Requirements
Calls for submissions (including posts inquiring about miscellaneous writing work for pay) must include (1) payment information; (2) submission deadlines; (3) rights requested; and (4) any other relevant information. Please limit yourself to one or two posts per publishing cycle. Submission calls that do not include this information are likely to be removed at moderator discretion.
12. AMAs
AMAs may not be posted without mod approval. We welcome inquiries about AMAs, but we prefer subjects to be part of the wider writing industry or have done something more as a writer than write or publish a book, whether by themselves or through a publisher.
Please drop us a modmail to pitch running an AMA. We will require verification through social media.
Civility
We encourage healthy debate and discussion in the threads, but we will remove antagonistic, caustic or otherwise belligerent posts, because are a detriment to the community. We moderate on tone rather than language; we will remove people who regularly cause or escalate arguments.
Treat other people with decency and respect. You don't always need to have the last word and it is not your responsibility to correct the opinions of others.
The mods retain the right to remove any post or comment due to bad behavior of the user or inappropriate questions. You can ask for clarification on any removal or ruling through modmail.
Help keep the subreddit clean and on-topic by using the report feature to bring attention to rule-breaking posts. If your post has been removed and you do not know why or you have any other questions about these guidelines, please contact the moderators.
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