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Hi, I made a writer’s group.

Hi I write books on daily life experience and life lesson wrote some books . Suggest more topics on which can write

Hi everyone!

I’m researching how neurodivergent people approach creative writing, from the first spark of an idea to turning those thoughts into a story.

I’m particularly interested in hearing from autistic and otherwise neurodivergent hobby writers, including people who love writing, are just starting out, or have lots of ideas but sometimes struggle to get them onto the page.

I’d love to understand:

• How you capture and develop your ideas.
• What you find enjoyable or challenging about writing.
• Whether you experience difficulties organising your thoughts or turning them into a coherent story.
• What kinds of tools or support might make the process easier.

I’m hoping to speak with volunteers for a 30–45 minute interview. There are no right or wrong answers — I’m simply interested in your individual experiences and perspectives.

If you’d be happy to chat, please send me a private message. You don’t need to be a published author or an experienced writer; hobby writers and beginners are very welcome.

Thank you for reading!

* Genre/s: Literary & General Fiction.

* Goals/expectations/commitment: The idea is to keep it friendly and writer-focused: talk about what we’re working on, share work for critique, discuss craft, and exchange information about querying, submissions, and publishing.

* Writing/experience level: all are welcome

* Meeting place: Discord

* Max size: to be determined.

If that sounds like your kind of place, message me, and I’ll send you an invite. Hope to see ya. Welcome!

* Genre/s: Sc
* Goals/expectations/commitment:
* Writing/experience level:
* Meeting place:
* Max size:

Hello everyone! I just wanted to post about a writers discord I created! It is 21+ but we have different channels for different genres. Examples: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance etc.

You don’t need to be professional, all writing experience and levels are welcome! It is only in discord and I even created a bot for the server to post weekly forums for checking on progress so everyone can comment and hold each other accountable to their goals and motivate each other!

If you’re interested, DM me so I can send the link!

Hello, I am writing a story (a what if hunger games fic) where the protagonist (Peeta, male, 18) gets a knife thrown at him. The knife is stuck into his back. I want the protagonist to be able to fake to die for the attacker to get near, so the wound must look somewhat possibly deadly but not being truly deadly, because afterwards the protagonist needs to be able to fight the attacker (Clove, female, 15) - it won't be a long fight though. So, where should be the wound be better positioned? And if you have any tips around this topic, it would be great :) Thank you in advance! --- the knife doesn't need to be in the back, it is just the initial idea so if you have a better idea that also could help a lot :)

more info: the knife must hit him bc otherwise the attacker would never come closer if she doesn't think he is dead/fatally wounded as she is much smaller than the protagonist (who is also a close combat fighter and if near, could easily overpower her) and that is why he fakes his death (to trick her in getting nearer)

Hi everyone! I’m currently working on my debut novel, an MM dark romance with a mystery subplot, and I’m starting to explore my options for when the manuscript is finished.

I’m still writing, so I don’t have a completion or publication date yet.
I’m simply trying to understand the editing and beta-reading process in advance.
Ideally, I’d love to find readers who are familiar with MM romance and dark romance, but who also have some experience with writing, grammar, proofreading, or editing.

I’m particularly interested in people who can offer thoughtful feedback on both the story itself and the writing.

I’m also considering a professional editor, although I’m still learning about the different services available and what might be realistic for a debut author on a limited budget.

For those of you who have self-published, worked with beta readers, or hired editors:

Have you found beta readers with editing or proofreading experience particularly helpful?
Would you recommend starting with beta readers, hiring an editor, or combining the two?

Are there any resources or communities you’d recommend for finding reliable people?
I’m not recruiting readers just yet, as the book isn’t finished. I’d simply love to hear about your experiences and learn more before I get to that stage.

Thank you! ♡

Please read post before voting!!

I had an idea for a writing/reading site like wattpad and royal road and i wanted to get yall's thoughts on how to tackle the AI story situation.

Do you think AI stories should be allowed with with an obvious disclosure and with a way to hide them, or should they flat out be banned? And i dont mean AI assisted stories, but stories straight up written by AI.

I was thinking that with a flat out ban, it would lead to people sneaking and posting them anyway, and there might end up being a whole AI witch hunt where real human authors might be accused and attacked. I also feel like it's actually something hard to police because those detector sites arent actually that good because AI was trained off of real people's work.

It could lead to people who know how to use AI getting by without being caught, and lead to human writers being accused because they dont have great writing skills.

With the other option I know some people will still lie and say it's not AI when it is, but I think most people will use the AI tag even if it's just to avoid getting in trouble and having their accounts banned. People who dont like AI can still avoid it and only see human made work.

And if someone is using the wrong tag or you suspect that theyre AI, they can be investigated.

I know the gaming platform Steam requires AI made games to disclose it and it seems to be working for them.

What do you guys think? Share your thoughts in the comments as well, please.

* Genre/s: Romance, fantasy, dark academia, Adult

* Goals/expectations/commitment: Just want help with regards to development, plot, etc (no proofing or line editing needed)

* Writing/experience level: Intermediate, but first novel

* Meeting place: no meet ups required, text is fine on any platform

Genre/s: Romance - borderline Romance/erotic
Goals/expectations/commitment: weekly meet-ups. 1 maybe 2 chapters a week depending on length.
Writing/experience level: Novice to intermediate
Meeting place: Discord
Max size: 2-3

Hello! I am close to finishing up my first spicy romance book, (typically write more scifi/adventure) looking for a critique partner. It is a short pretty low-stakes trashy romance novella. The sex scenes are pretty explicit, but infrequent. To give an idea I am about 15000 words in and there are 3 each about 500 words so far. I plan for about another 8000 words and probably 2 more scenes. Maybe a high amount idk, I have seen some romance/erotic with way more frequent scenes… just wanted to be upfront with what to expect! Anyway, let me know if you are interested!

Yet another writing tool! :D I needed a thing, I made a thing, I just did a big update on the thing, someone else might find the thing useful. Basically, I'm sharing my toys.

https://narrathred.com

Okay, what is it?

A browser-based plotting and manuscript tool for novelists and web serial writers. You build your story out of characters, locations, threads and events, link them together, and see how they interact along a timeline. Then you write the manuscript in the same place, so everything stays connected and helps keeps one source of truth.

• Free, no cookies, no account, no scraping or data mining remotely possible
• Your work stays in your browser, on your computer, and everything works offline once loaded*
• Works on desktop and phone, and saves to your own .nthred files in iCloud Drive, Google Drive or Dropbox
• Plotter-centric: connect all the things!

*After loading, and as long as you’re not using the maps or validating a calendar.

What does it do?

• Events and timeline: every event in one table, a calendar view, dependencies between events, and custom calendars with daylight hours. (My own novel has twin suns, nine 40-day months and 20-hour days. Narrathred handles it fine, I have...regrets.)
• Characters, locations and plot threads: each linked to the events they appear in, to help keep continuity straight across the manuscript.
• Writing: a rich-text editor with sections, statuses, targets, comments, search, sprints, beat templates and progress tracking.
• Notebook: notes and world-building as nested pages. @ mention a character, location, thread or another page to link things together. There’s a quick reference built from page summaries, and it’s all searchable from inside the manuscript.
• Import and export: import a .docx or .txt. Export to Word, Markdown, plain text, RTF, EPUB, PDF or HTML.
• Tools: see where threads, characters and locations are distributed along the timeline, map events and manuscript against story structure, easy eyeball on what's been left dangling.
• Web serials: release cadence, buffer target and instalments.
• Agent-friendly-ish: there’s no direct AI integration, but there’s an agent API and an llms.txt, so if you use Claude in the browser or similar, it can read what’s there more easily.
• More? Probably? Honestly, I’ve lost track. (Yes, yes, changelog, but this is a side project and logs are for the day job 😄)

Want a demo?

You can have one! Two, actually - enjoy (some of) A Christmas Carol from the start screen in either novel or web serial mode.

Feedback welcome!

If you do have a play and there's something you wish it did, let me know. And bug reports and “...what?” are as useful as feature ideas. There’s a Discord server if that’s your thing.

https://narrathred.com

🌑 THE ECLIPSE

Ever wondered what happens when writers, readers, gamers, and imaginative minds gather under one roof?

Welcome to The Eclipse. You might arrive for the writing, but you may find a community worth staying for.

• Genre/s:

Fantasy, dark fantasy, sci-fi, horror, mystery, romance, thriller, poetry, and practically anything born from imagination. We welcome all kinds of literature and creative minds!

• Goals/expectations/commitment:

We're building more than just another writing server. The Eclipse is a place to share your stories, exchange honest feedback, brainstorm ideas, discuss books, make friends, and grow alongside fellow creators.

And there's more than writing here! 🎮 Enjoy games and casual hangouts, participate in monthly events and community activities, challenge your creativity, and discover what other members are working on. Whether you're here to improve your craft, showcase your work, or simply find your people, there's room for you.

No pressure to be online 24/7. Just be respectful, participate when you can, and help keep the community welcoming.

• Writing/experience level:

Newbie with a story idea? Welcome. Experienced author with multiple projects? Welcome. Published writer, poet, reader, artist, or someone who just loves fictional worlds? You belong here, too. You don't need a shelf full of books to call yourself a writer.

• Meeting place:

Discord — The Eclipse 🌘

https://discord.gg/ruy5zXp58G

A growing literary community featuring dedicated spaces for writing, feedback, discussions, games, events, and socializing. Come for the stories; stay for the people.

• Max size (writing groups only):

No fixed maximum at the moment.

🌒 One last question: What if the next person who inspires your greatest story is already waiting in a community you haven't joined yet?

There's only one way to find out.

Step into the Eclipse.

Hey all! I’m an indie author, and I got tired of juggling five different programs to get one book out the door. Plus, half the good formatting tools are Mac-only. So I built my own. It’s called Pendrilo Studio, and I’m looking for beta testers on Windows.

Here’s what Studio does:

• Planning: outline, corkboard, plot board, and a codex for your characters, places and stuff, with a relationship map.
• Writing: focus mode, chapter notes, word goals, sprints and version history. Read Aloud lets you hear your chapter read back to you.
• Keeping the story straight: you jot down events, facts and plot threads, and Studio tells you when they contradict each other. Say someone’s eyes change color, or you set something up and never pay it off. No AI, and nothing writes for you.
• Revising: Prose Check flags filler words, wordy phrases and weak verbs. The Echo Report shows the habits you lean on across the whole book. (Mine is “just.” So much “just.”)
• Publishing: the full formatter is built in. Pick from 65 designs and see your actual pages as you go. It does proper hyphenation and won’t leave stranded lines at the top or bottom of a page. It sets the KDP gutter for your page count, and you can use your own fonts. When you’re close, the Publishing Desk gives you a checklist of what’s left before you upload.

I also made a few side programs that work alongside it. They all stand on their own, so grab whichever ones you want:

• Formatter: just the formatting part of Studio, if you write in Word or Scrivener and only need the finished files.
• Maps: draws a fantasy or horror map for the front of your book.
• Cover Wrap: turns your front cover into the full paperback wrap (front, spine and back).
• Audiobook Studio: for narrating your own audiobook. Read a sentence at a time, it cleans up the sound, and it checks everything against ACX’s rules before you upload.
• Type: turns your handwriting into a font.
• Panelhouse: letters comics from a script.

You don’t need anything special, and nothing goes to the cloud. Your book stays on your computer as a regular file.

Cost: free. Everything is free for the whole beta, and Formatter will stay free for good along with some of the others that I haven't decided which.

Mac folks: the Mac version isn’t ready yet. Sign up anyway and I’ll email you when it is.

What I’m hoping for from testers: use it on a real book and tell me what breaks, what’s confusing, and what annoys you. Every program has Help → Send Feedback built in, so it only takes a few seconds. If you’ve got a book close to publishing, you’re exactly who I’m looking for.

Sign up here: https://pendrilo.com

Mundus - a free and open source story-making suite made from an hobbyist writer tired of having to jump between various apps and websites to get all features they need

Available for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android as a regular and iPhone/iPad as a manually added PWA (a website)

It has everything you need to create and keep track of all of your stories, from the writing itself, to characters creation, to detailing the lore, relationships, timeline. plotlines and map of your story.

But these components aren't isolated, I designed the app from the beginning to integrate all of these features into each other, to make getting the most out of them as seamless as possible

First published version of the app is live on GitHub now, https://github.com/NotBedd/Mundus

Edit: We are full!!! Thanks everyone and happy writing!

Hi all! I mod an established and small moms romance writing group and we are looking for two more members to join us. It is an intentionally small, intimate group of moms who are looking for support through both the journey of motherhood and writing. We have a high reading requirement but also offer high reward!

Genre: Romance

Goals/Expectations/Commitments:

-Be a mom or expecting.
-Write romance, any sub-genre is fine. We have contemporary, steampunk and fantasy so far but are open to more of the same or something new!
-Have a completed (or nearly complete) manuscript, draft one or high is fine.
-Be willing to read five chapters of another manuscript a week. You choose which manuscript sounds interesting and begin reading it. In turn, other members will also be reading yours weekly

Writing/Experience Level: First draft complete.

Meeting Place: Discord

Max Size: Looking to add two new members. We do not exceed ten members at a time, so when I say small, I mean small! We aren't the chattiest bunch but we are committed and active weekly readers.

Hey all,

Thanks for reading. Like the post says, my wife and I are interested in starting a writing exercise group and are looking for people we think we'd enjoy meeting online for regular critique and exercise sessions. The genre you like to write in doesn't matter; all that matters is that you enjoy the craft and want to get better and grow with a group of cool people. I'm hoping we can start with the exercises in Ursula K. Le Guin's Steering the Craft, but we're open to ideas.

I actually used Reddit recently to build a similar group but for DnD campaigns, and that worked incredibly well, so I've got high hopes that we can find some great people to work with.

A little about us: my wife and I have been in and out of creative writing for something like 17 years. For a while she was a creative writing student in college and has won a local award or two. We ping pong between genres. We're also firmly established in our non-literary careers and like to write just for the joy of the art. We're told that we're really chill, kind, and fun to work with.

We're also adults with jobs and schedules, and are reliable when it comes to meeting and getting our homework done.

We're looking for people who can devote a small amount of time between chats working on exercises, and then meet for a fun chat online maybe once a week, in addition to whatever async chats people want to have in a Discord server I'll set up.

Absolutely no experience needed, we're not looking for any level of writing quality.

Ideally you're some level of empathetic, kind and / or patient. We find we work best with other people who have been told they're chill or at least one of the above adjectives.

If that sounds like you, hit me up!

• Genre/s: any
• Goals/expectations/commitment: one weekly online chat and as much / little async discussion as you'd like
• Writing/experience level: any
• Meeting place: online / Discord
• Max size: 10

Hello there,

I am wanting to connect with Mums that write to create a community on Discord. Currently based in Yorkshire and have set the group for Yorkshire Mums, but I am open to have any Mum's (regardless of location) that are wanting to share this community. Hoping to create a safe place for us to share tips, ideas and to generally support one another.

Let me know if you are interested and I will send you the link.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mumswhowrite/

Writing as a way to process whatever difficult situations you are going through. Did any of you do that? Asked this because I plan to write about my worst fears, and worst case scenarios that I am scared to face. Heard that some writers have done this (eg: Stephen King while writing The Shining). If any of you have done this, does this work out? Is it a way to deal with your probelms?

Hello! I am currently 35k words into my first book, and I want to make sure I am writing the women in my story correctly. I’ve written them like I do my male characters, but being a man, I want to make sure the woman stand on their own/ are their own beings. It’s something I’ve worked hard at, making sure they’re not just a troupe to be used by the plot, but rather cemented characters in the story.

Please let me know if this is something you’d like to help me out with, in return, I’d be more than happy to read anything that you’ve written as well.

For a crime thriller project, there is a scenario where the antagonists wanna go after a witness in the case.

A cop character is assigned to protect the witness and goes to her place to pick her up and take her to a safe location.

The antagonists have an opportunity to make an attempt on her logically here , but I can have it so that the cop and the witness are aware of the attempt and fight them off, or i can have it so they are not aware of the attempt, as they get away and it's a near miss.

However, how do you decide which way is better if the plot would go the same way after either way?

Thank you very much for any input on this! I really appreciate it!

• Genre/s: Would prefer dystopian, psychological, mystery, slice-of-life, coming-of-age, literary-fiction. But any other genres also welcome (e.g. comedy, romance).
• Goals/expectations/commitment: Would like people to try out the platform by posting original short stories (no AI or fanfics allowed), there's a Forums section built into it for feedback.
• Writing/experience level: Any
• Meeting place: I ll DM you the link, or just visit my profile, the link's in the description.

My focus is on making a community for short stories. Authors own all content, you can take down your writing anytime.

The platform is free, and there's no payment involved for you posting stories. Though you will find there are monthly contests ongoing, if you want to participate in those particularly there is a prize for the winner of every month.

The other thing about the platform is, it's got some critique-partnering features built into it, called Companions. Would like to know what you think about that feature. Again, there's a Forum section built into the site where you can talk about what you do or dont like.

Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on a fantasy novel for 4 yrs, and I’d love to find a community of fellow writers where we can bounce ideas off one another, ask questions, create polls, and give constructive feedback.

I’m not necessarily looking for people to read entire chapters. I’d love something more interactive, where writers can discuss character development, plot decisions, worldbuilding, and different storytelling approaches.

Ideally, something that feels like a book club, but for people actually writing books!
Does anyone know of a subreddit, Discord server, or online writing group like this? I’d love to join one!

I created this vocabulary resource for my daughter, Poème, as a college gift. It's a lovingly curated collection of a thousand beautiful words arranged intuitively by feel (just how a writer reaches for them).  It took years to collect and categorize these words - but it has been, and continues to be, a labor of love.  Now we are hoping it can serve as many developing writers as we can reach. This goodwill offering is the kind of resource I would have loved, as a young poet.  Please feel free to share - https://athousandbeautifulwords.org/

Best wishes in your craft!

I'm curious about what you do when you have an initial idea. It may be a name, scene, character, sentence that's stuck in your head, anything.

Some things I've dabbled in are going on a Pinterest deep dive to find images that match the vibe of the idea, even if they're vague and on the surface unrelated. Or starting a word document and just jotting down anything associated with the idea that comes to mind.

What are some of the tools, techniques, exercises you do to explore that initial idea more?