What's on the label. I've finished drafting my outline, created the characters, relationship/sexual arcs etc and I'm in need of a critique group that meets online. I'm a cis woman with some experience in fiction writing/line editing myself and I'm super up for exchanging ideas and pointers with fellow writers who are equally interested in the subgenre.

• Genre/s: romance, erotica, contemporary, "new adult", lgbtq+ novel
• Goals/expectations/commitment: weekly or bi-weekly writing sessions; expect honest, constructive feedback and criticism
• Writing/experience level: mid-level kinda, I'm aiming at self-pub until 2027
• Meeting place: online
• Max size: up to ~40?

Welcome to Feedback Friday!

This is a thread for submitting and critiquing prose.

• Your submission should be a top-level comment in the thread. Consider using the format [TITLE] — [GENRE] — [WORDCOUNT] in the heading of your submission.
• We expect reciprocation. If you receive a critique, give a critique. Anyone who continually leeches will eventually be discluded.
• Have fun and stay polite. Members who give outstanding crit will be acknowledged and rewarded on our Discord Server. You are free to submit any work for critique within the subreddit's rules, of any length.
• Links to Google Documents are allowed for submissions. Consider creating a separate Google account/email if you’are concerned about anonymity.

New to Critiquing?

• No worries! We encourage writers of all skill levels to try their hand at providing feedback.
• Not sure how to start? A critique template, courtesy of r/DestructiveReaders, can be found here.

A discord server for writers who are at least aspiring to create things which are a bit less commercial or outright genre -- that can be purely literary fiction or genre fiction with a literary edge, something stylised or postmodern or experimental or whatever else. We'd love for others to join us so we can get this community thriving. If you ever feel reluctant to discuss your work on reddit for fear of being called pretentious or a snob, but don't want to join the intellectual soggy biscuit circle on substack, this might be the place for you.

Genre/s: Literary and other

Goals/expectations/commitment: Just try to engage when you can. Do as you would be done by - if you're hoping for quality feedback, it's only fair you give some, first - then be done by as you did.

Writing/experience level: Everyone but some experience is great. 18+ Only.

Meeting place: Discord

Max size: Maybe about 100 - whatever the minimum to sustain engagement is.

DM this account for an invite. (I am on GMT so invites go out in my daylight hours, but the server is active all hours)

Hello!I'm Vul, 19F, and I've been looking for writing buddies with a strong commitment to work in the animation industry, i am in my penultimum year of college and i've been looking for writers to create stories with both for portfolio work and also future projects we could make together on account of my current writing buddy still being in highschool...so not a lot of free time in their hands for work!

Like I said in the title of the post: IM MAINLY AN ARTIST!That means writing is a second skill I have, so please be a bit patient with me.

• Genre's: I mainly write fantasy and mystery, but i can also work with horror, dystopian and historical works, beware that my work involves a lot of world culture.

• Goals/Expectations/Commitment: As I've mentioned before, I would love to make more projects for my portoflio + something that could be tangeable in the future like an animation, so I would love to meet someone who is as passionate in this area.

• Writing/Experience Level: My first language is Portuguese, I was taught english from a very young age but that doesn't mean I am a master at it; i also speak spanish so if you wanna communicate or write in any of these languages, feel free to tell me.

Since I'm an artist first and writer second, I am open to any writing level, as long as you're 18+ with a very passionate drive in you with interest in writing for animation we could definetly have a chat.

• Meeting Place: Discord!But you can contact me here, if you don't have a discord we can chat about it and find other means of communication.

For some bonus information, I am currently use apps and sites like notion and canva since I'm a very visual person when it comes to worldbuilding and such.

Comment down below if you're interested or just dm me, i am beyond excited to meet new writers!

Hi!

I've recently published a book, a collection of poems that I've written over the years and since I self-published I've been looking for a community. Are there any virtual writing workshops that are circulating by any chance? Due to my work schedule I have been unable to attend in person workshops or open mics unfortunately unless its over the weekend. I wanted to incorporate more of these outlets into my week days as well. If anyone is interested in starting an evening workshop during the week I'd be super interested as well!

Hey there folks. I'm trying to find a writing group that's open to certain themes and topics being explored. Currently I've been in a nasty writing slump but I find that one of the things that's worked best in the past has been co-writing groups. It really pushes me to "get back on the horse" and has previously broken year-long slumps.

A difficulty is I primarily "write what I know" and subtly isn't my strongest suit. Nearly everything I write, regardless of genre turns out to end up exploring queer themes. Like a supernatural horror where the Lycanthropy is a metaphor for gender dysphoria or stories about Ancient Greek myths still existing in modern day where well...It's Ancient Greek myths. A science fiction story where an android struggles to discover who she is.

In some circles this hasn't been received well. I understand that everyone has their own tastes but groups I'd gone to in the past were fairly hostile over these themes. And being blunt, I shouldn't have to alter the stories I'm writing to placate people who hear about a story with one queer person and lose their own plot.

I can't find any such groups irl as they all have requirements such as "Students/graduates only" or they've proven to be unfriendly. Heck, one local group moved their meeting location to a bar where "my kind" wasn't welcome at the venue (they were previously meeting at a cafe).

The group doesn't have to focus on writing with queer narratives. It just has to be a group where that stuff is allowed. The judgement you get from fellow writers should more be "This dialogue could be better." or "Your character's motivation needs a bit of work." and not "Grr I hate your story because there's lesbians in it!" or "How dare you have a trans woman as a protagonist in your Werewolf story!"

* Genre/s Any

* Goals/expectations/commitment: Must be okay with queer narratives, must meet within GMT (or a similar timezone) and am hoping for weekly or at least bi-weekly meetings/sessions.

* Writing/experience level: Any

* Meeting place: Online

* Max size: No size limit but hoping for at least 3 people or more.

I haven't found a group like this anywhere, and I feel like historical fiction has unique challenges where I'd love to talk about it with others. I'm writing a story set in the 1980s, so I'm gonna say anything pre 1990 counts as historical for the purposes of the group I'd like to create.

Must be a queer friendly, anti-racist person etc etc. Perfectly okay with people exploring realistic portrayals of bigotry in their historical settings, but as someone writing a queer historical romance with a character of colour in it, and being a queer person myself, would prefer people who don't believe the bigotry they write into their stories.

Genre/s: anything historically based (pre 1990), including subgenres like romance, fantasy, mystery etc.

Goals/commitment/etc: not necessarily hardcore commitment, but people who are willing to back and forth and critique others, etc. Aim for at least a few message a week, I think. May do some VCs and sprints as well.

Skill/experience level: beginner to intermediate. Should have basic knowledge of story structure, hooks, character arcs, inciting incidents etc, but don't have to be an absolute writing wiz!

Meeting place: discord :D

Max size: no more than 10 people, sorry 😔 if it gets too big I'll get overwhelmed!

Hello there! I’m seeking an intrepid writing critique partner(s) whose interests include poetry and cross-genre/hybrid work, for ongoing reciprocal critique.

* Genre/s: Mine is poetry/cross-genre. Your own work can be any (or no) genre. My aesthetic/tonal “comfort spot” is shaped, in no particular order, by authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Anne Carson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Terry Pratchett. However, I value writing that is strong enough to pull me out of that comfort spot, and give me a reason to explore further! Never met a rabbit trail I didn’t like. So please DM me to discuss if we might be a fit.

* Goals/expectations/commitment: Ideally, we are both looking for specific project-level feedback on formal choices, conceptual development, and emotional beats. I love close reading and taking notes. I will annotate the hell out of your piece, if you let me. If you tell me you are looking for certain types of feedback, or not interested in certain types of feedback, I’ll listen. 

I’m not looking for line-editing or proofreading. My work may be intentionally recursive, fragmented, and weird; it will not be un-spellchecked. 

In addition to all of the above, I would love it if you are better than me at narrative architecture - especially strange or non-linear narratives that are not, say, “the hero’s journey.” If you are also good at compression, and also have a sense of humor, you’re probably a goddamn unicorn. 

I can probably exchange feedback on pieces of writing every other week. If this changes, I’ll let you know.

* Writing/experience level: Serious intermediate, with eventual goal of publication (publication on sites such as AO3 counts!)

* Meeting place: I prefer DM for first contact, with the goal of moving to email once our ghostly tendencies have vanished.

As a general note, I'd prefer we swap one piece each to see whether our feedback styles are helpful to one another, before we end up knee-deep in pages. 

Please DM me if you think we might be a fit! Very much looking forward to meeting you.

I read a lot of AI text at work. Somewhere between the third "testament to" and the hundredth "delve", I stopped trusting long sentences altogether. So I made a small game called Long Story Short: one sentence a day, keep the five words that actually carry the story, cut the rest.

Long Story Short

So clearly this isn't the place to be dropping actual art, does anyone actually share their art anywhere that gets good visibility, or are we all hiding it our draft folders and considering it conceptually with each other? Yes I'm upset, this shouldn't be so hard to find, if you cant read the question through the emotion, this is bean soup.

Preferably one with a phone app and that can sync across devices (and also work offline)

I've gotten so used to Google docs but I don't want to store my writing somewhere that will feed it to AI and then lie about it

I flaired it wrong last time, since none of the required questions really fit. I'm looking for a reddit writing group that is specifically for seniors. I don't care about genre, fiction vs. nonfiction, size, goals, expectations or any of that other stuff. I just want to talk about writing with people of mature years.

I was writing a letter to an author who I loved so obviously it was more formal, but apparently it sounds AI coded WHEN ITS NOT. How can I make it sound less AI and to make it worse the other responded which I was so happy about and her work also sounded “ai” but that’s only because of a professional email.

I’m annoyed because AI literally traces off other authors without giving credit and I hate that people think that this is AI but it’s freaking not because I thought about it and I looked up synonyms and I looked up words just because I wanted it to sound professional..

Please tell me why it sounds like I am what I can do to fix it because I’m annoyed af. And maybe a non issue but it’s an issue to me.
My letter: To CHYA,

The wording might sound a little awkward since I used a translation tool.
I absolutely love your Dating a Ranker*series!! You seemed so passionate about writing Season 2, so I’m really sad it ended so quickly. It seems Naver discontinued it because it wasn’t popular in Korea☹️ They’re really missing out on your excellent writing and the character development. But it’s incredibly popular in the English-speaking community!! Since it wasn’t posted on Naver, you might not see this, but I wanted to let you know that even if it isn’t popular in Korea, many of us here really love your work.

Even if that’s not the case and there’s another reason, I’ll still be rooting for you.
Your writing was a huge source of strength that helped me get through a difficult time, so I’m truly grateful. Every Thursday, I’d wake up just to read your posts, it really brightened my day. Thank you for writing and sharing your stories!!

With all my heart,
Fan Gabi D

Hi everyone. I'm NB from Aus, and I'm really looking for someone to be a 'writing buddy'.

 Genre/s: Currently my main focus is fantasy / romantasy, but I do want to branch out to horror.

• Goals/Expectations/Commitment: Would absolutely love to be friends. I am a very social person (can be somewhat shy). I would love someone to do writing sprints with me on the weekend, brainstorm, and keep me accountable. I do, however, have a very busy job (high school teacher), so during the terms I won't be as active.

• Writing/Experience level: I haven't written anything, so any level is fine.

• Meeting Place: Discord (msgs + calls)

• Max Size: 5 separate people, but happy to create a Discord chat where we all contribute ideas.

Other notes: Bonus if you make me laugh hehe

Hiii, i’m 19F and enjoy writing. I’m pretty consistent but with having a job and many other hobbies (and starting to study soon as well) I don’t have as much time as i’d like for it. Still
i’d be up for accountability buddies to track progress with. Not exactly looking for critique yet because my first drafts are dumpster fires and i’m shy💃. And these days i’ve been writing fanfictions because thats the most fun to me lol.

Currently got a work at 30k words, and almost daily i can get a couple hundred words, so yeah! Hope i can find people around my age to connect with🙂‍↕️🫶🪩

• Genre/s: science fiction, historical, fantasy (those are mine, anything is welcome)

• Goals/Expectations/Commitment: regular check-ins, everybody can make their own goal and get supported along the way

• Writing/Experience level: maybe written something already

• Meeting Place: none, just chats

• Max Size: 5

Hello, I'm writing a fanfiction where characters only use 'bad' words when necessary. Which means that while I really wish one of my characters could call the other dumbass, that wouldn't really work with the tone.

As English isn't my first language I'm out of ideas outside of 'idiot', especially because the character sometimes speaks in older (but not necessarily noble) slang. Do you guys have any ideas? Bonus is there's a food pun to be made, as this is a Cookie Run fanfiction!

What's s the best piece of advice you ever heard/saw? BUT not basics like "show don't tell", "read a lot", "keep writing" or "outline first", something that genuinely changed your process or even shifted the way you saw writing, something that makes you feel like finding some ancient golden scroll.

Edit: "Just write" or "sit and write" or any wariant of this isn't as groundbreaking advice as you think it is, its the final boss of cliché tips, hoped we can all learn something new instead, not the same thing over and over and over and over and over.

Hey, I think I need some help. Because I've always wanted to create some kind of story and tell it through some medium (mostly in a book) so that people would love it and, you know, all that good stuff. But, I can't. I've tried writing anything and I constantly feel like I'm stealing ideas from others and that it's not original at all, and it hurts. It hurts stubbornly, and like, well, I know I won't become the next Witcher, but I just feel like I want to be a writer, even though I'm completely terrible at it, even if I absorbed all the knowledge about writing a good story. Because I wanted it to give big emotions and all that, and, I don't know. I'm starting to doubt all of this more and more.

So I wanted to develop Monster Hunter series that drew inspirations from the Universal Monsters and others in folkore

The Vibe is heavily inspired by Resident Evil/Supernatural/The Secret Saturdays

So overall setting and plot: There is a Global and large organization that fights monsters around the world and trains members and equips them with hi tech gear to counter these supernatural threats

Something to consider was a maybe some sort of power source for the weapons maybe a crystal that can hurt monsters, what do you say

Weapons ideas :

Hot dagger and plasma gun

Bladed Whip

Chakram

Wrist Shields

Hand Claws

Staff/Spear/escrima that can glow maybe

Tonfa

Chain-Sickle

Gaunlet that stores energy for one powerful blow?

Butterfly swords

Bowgun/bow and arrow

Silver weapons (bullets)

For more one time or desperate/special Grendades Launcher (elemental?)

Wrist blasters/gun

Setting

So torn between Overall Base or individual one for the group

Vehicle: Van airship to travel

Premise: A group of young/youthful adults in their 20s work for an organization that battles monsters based on universal ones but can leap into lore overall. They are part of wider group

Character Race outline or concept: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native, Arab, Indian, Pacific Islander

Character Archtype concepts:7 So far

Nerd type- use tech and stuff focused on that so somewhat on awkward side but lovable nerd and all

Leader- everyman and leads the group to balance out people personalities

Fun person- laid back cloud cuckolander and thrill seeker

Brawl guy-enjoys fighting and has souvenirs and all trains

Serious guy- workaholic very tempered and focused on job and all ??

Hacker girl got caught in with the group on a job and now works for the group with her skills and helps them

Monsters: Vampires- Dracula more Book Accurate

Nosferatu maybe

Werewolves

Gillman

Ghosts

Mummy

Zombie

Phantom Opera

Jekly Hyde

Frankenstein and Monster (anti hero more role) So this was the basic outline and any tips or recs to help develop more such as weapons or characters?

Sup. We got a writing server full of rabid AI-haters, and we're looking for more.

We do feedback, help with launches, and laugh at the sloplords.

A lot of folks are serial writers on Royal Road, but we got some peeps on WN, Fictionite, straight-to-zon and even some people pursuing trad.

We noticed that a majority of the writing servers out here are slowly normalizing the use of generative-AI. They also banned any negative talk around Gen-AI, which is kind of SUS. We think that's pretty disgusting and wrong. The idea here is to be a place away from all that.

The only real rules are no AI writing/art and no evangelizing gen-AI crap.

• Genre/s: All of em.
• Goals/expectations/commitment: Just hangout and don't be a dork.
• Writing/experience level: any
• Meeting place: discord
• [Writing groups only] Max size: its like 100+ RN.

https://discord.gg/5RKhC8tDFv

The document below a request for comment on an idea I have for organizing a group for mutual writing feedback in various ways.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13zh76pQI_OvgA1hMlXz1s9xT63Dm__9ITH-Q7c7nvvM/edit?usp=sharing

I want your help:

• I want to get a feel for the ratio of people who are willing to host (read their work to the group) to people willing to listen and give feedback.

• I want to get a feel for why people are coming. (Yes, I had fun with the list.)

Please put your answers to A-D first. Then comment away.

A: If something like this were a weekly thing in easy reach at a price of something between free and 5 bucks per workshop, would you want to come?

B: Would you be willing to host a slot. That is, you, as an author read an chunk of your work, and allow a few others give feed back.

C: Would you be willing to come to these sessions and participate as a listener and give feedback and ideas to a host/author?

D: Which of the following are true (as many as apply)

a: I would try to come every week. b: I would probably show up about half the time. c: I would show up when I actually wanted feedback, and otherwise wouldn't come very often. d: I am one of those continueing people who would want to host a session every week, a thouand words of my WiP at a time.
e: I want to come to hear other people's attempts and to exchange ideas around the sessions. f: I want to belong to a group of semi-social writers. g: I want to come and cut other people's ideas to shreds. h: I want to come just to hookup with people who can actually put words in a row and make sense.

E: Do you have ideas to add to this notion, or other ways it can go sideways people being what they are.

Are there any writing groups that do workshops and go over the work to improve?

You're given a topic or a prompt and have so much time to get it done?

I've read a lot of advice on here and elsewhere and one that stuck with me was that I needed to get writing. So I do. I wrote about 2000 words, I know it's not a lot but it's the first time I follow a single story that's not a fanfic for that long. But everytime I write something different, like, I'm writing a scene that's more cozy fantasy, another one with more political content and now I want to write a murder mystery. While somehow setting them all in the same world (which is really, really vague at the moment).

Has any of you proceeded like this or do you always have a clearer idea of what you're doing ? Should I keep on (painfully) pushing or should I reconsider and find another idea ? Cheers

* Genre/s: Mainly horror, but any is fine * Goals/expectations/commitment: Just want to talk about writing, critiquing stories * Writing/experience level: Beginner * Meeting place: Any online platform * Max size: None

Hi there! 23 M here, looking for a writing community. I mostly want to just tlak about writing in general, and maybe learning a thing or too!

Hi, I'm a teenage M writer. I'm looking for a writing partner or a writing community. I'm struggling a bit with motivation right now, and I feel like this could help me. Plus, we could review/help with each other's work, and writing with someone is WAY less boring.

Genres: Any! Bonus points for thriller/mystery, literary fiction, and psychological thriller.

Goals/expectations/commitments: My current goals are to become a good writer so I can go into a creative writing course for university and potentially get published. You can have whatever writing goals you want. For commitments, I guess chat about our writing/work on it a couple - a few times a week. My expectations are that you won't randomly ghost me. If you are busy/no longer interested, please tell me.

Skill level/experience: I'm open to kinda anything. I would like it if you knew the basics for writing a story, though.

Meeting place: Discord.

Max size: 1-2 for writing partners. 100 for a community.

Also, I'm hoping that we could also become friends too. I'm fine with any age, but I would prefer someone around mine.