โ๏ธ 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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For my update, my year+ long search for a fulltime job is finally at an end ๐ฎโ๐จ but as much as that's a relief, I forgot how much time and energy fulltime work takes up!
But I've been keeping up my writing in small ways. I continue to collect ideas like a magpie collects shiny things, but I've started to do my writing in short snippets with whatever is available: a notepad when going on walks, in the form of essays or concept pieces on mastodon, or even on my phone using Fossify notes.
Though I still spend more time consuming media than producing it. Especially reading. I found that my reading speed has actually almost doubled since last year! (Though I'm still v slow.)
Happy to hear you're now employed, and hopefully the job will leave you enough headspace to put some words down at the end of the day!
That's great that you have some more stability now ๐ซ I'm sure inspiration will come back to you when it is time!
Congrats on the job!! They really do suck up so much time and energy, but at least the free time you do have won't be clouded with that pressure of job hunting :)
Congrats on landing your job! But yes, it really can be a drain, and I've been struggling with this for some time myself to have sufficient surplus to get to writing during a regular work week. Unfortunately between work, housekeeping and some other personal projects that for the time being need to take priority over writing, there's not been much left for writing on my projects. However...
Last month I mentioned I was trying to set up Neovim for writing. I didn't quite get as far as properly setting it up, but I've been trying to use it to get used to the keybindings, and I've done my yearly (very personal) retrospective write-up (or rather I've started and gotten quite far, but it's still a WIP into January) and will follow up with a 2026 outlook, also entirely personal. At least this is getting me writing again.