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!
I've been journaling, and doing quite a bit of writing for my job. I haven't had as much focus towards more creative things-- but im hoping this month i can settle into a more regular writing routine.
I have a few ideas that have been rattling around and it would be nice to give them space to see if they grow into something larger
I feel like journaling counts as creative writing practice, that's great that you're keeping it up!
Thanks :) It probably partially me being hard on myself for not writing more long form content meant to be shared. I appriciate the reminder to be happy with what I am doing though :))
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!
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.)
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.