✍️ 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.
Click here to visit our solarpunk writing resource wiki!
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I was actually just drafting a post about our solarpunk writing resource wiki! I've been working to rebuild my notes from past projects and gathering up new information to build out a collection of writer-level information to make writing solarpunk easier.
In this month I mostly focused on the new page about Long-Lasting Stuff for a Library Economy. I've been talking to people who work on electronics and machines and gathering up posts, links, and other information. It's not really done but that's the cool thing about this project - none of the pages are! Each one just gives us a place to drop any new links or other resources as we find them and I've been adding stuff to all of them as I go.
I think at this point I've only got a couple other pages I want to create and feel qualified to gather the info for, but I very much hope some of you will want to contribute your own notes! And I plan to start reaching out to other communities and to a few specific people to see if they want to put something together to help fiction writers get their special interest right.
Outside of that, my main goals for the new year is to resume work on the TTRPG campaign book. We're pretty much just in editing now - we've even got a professional editor on the team who has found tons of stuff I'm very glad to fix before publication. (And we're hopefully getting a cover soon). After that I hope to start work on a choose your own adventure book version of the same story/setting to make this work more accessible. It's easier to pick up a fiction book than a whole TTRPG campaign with a GM and a group of friends.
As a regular fantasy writer, I love this section in particular: https://wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:solarpunk_in_fantasy_settings I love this!!
I'm so glad, I'll try to keep adding to it as I find stuff, and if you have anything feel free to tell me about it and I'll add it!