✍️ 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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Hi! I've been painting and writing poetry lately. I finally have my office fully set up (only took me a year...). It has been really nice having a space dedicated to being creative.
The school year is starting back up, so I'll be working again starting tomorrow. It might be good for my writing if I can make it part of my daily routine. So my goal for this month is to write every day & hopefully establish that habbit for the year :)
My streach goal is to complete a chapter of one of the larger projects I've been working on.
I hope everyone enjoys the transition into fall -- I know I'm excited for the cool weather and changing leaves.
Omgosh, you did it! Congrats on getting your office fully set up. I know the thought-tax of a lingering task, which while not urgent or even strictly necessary, is a to-do that never gets cleared. So yeah, great job. :)
Eager to hear if a daily routine emerges for you. I've had the beginnings of them myself, but never for long enough to become a genuine habit. That would be so cool, though--to sit to write as casually as one sidles up to a bathroom sink to brush their teeth. The dream!
Also painting and poetry??! Jealous! What kind of painting and what sort of poetry have you been up to?
Thanks! It definetly feels good to be moved into my house and kind of done with renovation stuff.
And I do watercolor and ink paintings, and most of my poetry is free form naturalist stuff :) maybe ill share a pic if I make something I'm proud of. Fingers crossed ill be productive this month lol
I'm crossing my fingers, too! (For the both of us lol.)