✍️ Writing
A community for writers, like poems, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, long books, all those sorts of things, to discuss writing approaches and what's new in the writing world, and to help each other with writing.
Rules for now:
1. Try to be constructive and nice. When discussing approaches or giving feedback to excerpts, please try to be constructive and to maintain a positive vibe. For example, don't just vaguely say something is bad but try to list and explain downsides, and if you can, also find some upsides. However, this is not to say that you need to pretend you liked something or that you need to hide or embellish what you disliked.
2. Mention own work for purpose and not mainly for promo: Feel free to post asking for feedback on excerpts or worldbuilding advice, but please don't make posts purely for self promo like a released book. If you offer professional services like editing, this is not the community to openly advertise them either. (Mentioning your occupation on the side is okay.) Don't link your excerpts via your website when asking for advice, but e.g. Google Docs or similar is okay. Don't post entire manuscripts, focus on more manageable excerpts for people to give feedback on.
3. What happens in feedback or critique requests posts stays in these posts: Basically, if you encounter someone you gave feedback to on their work in their post, try not to quote and argue against them based on their concrete writing elsewhere in other discussions unless invited. (As an example, if they discuss why they generally enjoy outlining novels, don't quote their excerpts to them to try to prove why their outlining is bad for them as a singled out person.) This is so that people aren't afraid to post things for critique.
4. All writing approaches are valid. If someone prefers outlining over pantsing for example, it's okay to discuss up- and downsides but don't tell someone that their approach is somehow objectively worse. All approaches are on some level subjective anyway.
5. Solarpunk rules still apply. The general rules of solarpunk of course still apply.
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FINALLY some sun popped out, so I did my best to enjoy it. I still wrote plenty, and by following my usual template:
Done this month:
To be done in August:
I'm starting fulltime courses in September, so August is the last month of unintentional vacation I got. Will try to make the best out of it.
Wow, sounds like you were incredibly productive! Congratz!
I hope your last month of break goes well. It sounds like you've been making the most of your time off :)
Thank you! Part of me is kind of self-sabotaging though, because I already know I'll beat myself up if in two months I won't be able to match how much I'm writing now 😅
Uhhh this sounds cool as hell?? What is that?
So basically hieroglyphs are like "supertropes", stuff that when you see it, you can immediately tell which genre you're reading/watching. After I translated the SSL (check June Writing Update) I got curious and tracked which were the most common ones and which ones were, let's say, missing:
Here's the link if you want to read about it!
Excellent article. A real call to action to step up the quality of our conversations in the solarpunk aesthetic.
I wasn't familiar with the vast cultural significance of the Calabash. That was really cool to learn about.