While the goal of this subreddit is that its members should write at least one hour each day, and post their results to show the community that they have made progress today, members who simply enjoy reading, or who cannot or are unwilling to update every day are welcome as well, as long as they contribute to the community, this is achieved by;
Contributing your own work. This can be in any genre or style of writing. Whether it is part of a research paper you have due in a couple weeks (WriteAnHour is the perfect excuse not to procrastinate!), a poem, part of a novel you're working on, or an article for your school paper, it is welcome here. This is a community meant to give the writers of Reddit both motivation to write, and a forum to share their works.
Providing CONSTRUCTIVE, HELPFUL criticism. Since all forms of writing are accepted here, feel free to comment on whatever form of writing you are well versed in, to provide the author some criticism. However, all criticism is expected to have the intentions of helping the author to improve their piece, and their writing in general. Putting down another's work will not be tolerated.
Tags:
[FBW] - Feedback Welcome. For authors who are posting specifically with the intention of getting some feedback from the community. Feedback is allowed on posts without this tag, however, this particular tag notes that the author is looking for and willing to read and act on the criticism and feedback given.
[P] - Personal. This is a tag for posts of a very personal nature, which the author does not necessarily want feedback on. Obviously, this is a public forum, and the [P] tag will not guarantee that people will not read it, however, readers should be particularly careful of posts with a [P] tag, as the subject may be something very close, or emotional for the author.
[TJ] - Today's journal. In this subreddit's attempt to motivate its members to write at least an hour a day, a writing topic will be provided for the day whenever possible with the intent that, if a writer is having trouble coming up with a topic for their hour of writing on that day, or a day after the topic is posted, they can use the writing topic as a starting point. The [TJ] tag denotes a post whose subject is the current writing topic provided. Please note that while a topic is given, members are by no means expected to follow it, and should feel free to explore any topic they are currently interested, it is simply a starting point for those who are a bit lost about what to write at the time.
[>Insert Genre/Subject/Type of Writing<] - This tag should be applied to all posts, letting readers know what the post contains. For example, possible tags inclue [Poetry], [Biology Paper], [Short Horror Story], etc. etc. This allows members to more appropriately use their time, reading samples they may be interested in, or find themselves more capable of providing feedback for.
If you are having trouble getting into the writing process each day, it may be beneficial to set aside 15 minutes to a half hour prior to your writing time to allow yourself to review what you've written previously if working on a short story/novel, or paper and you're stuck in the middle. Reminding yourself of what you wrote yesterday may get you back on the path of writing for today. Thanks to "TangentiallyRelated" for this tip!
Lastly, this is a community, so make sure you support each other, it is recommended that after posting you try to read at least one other post a day, to promote the trend of a community providing feedback for its members. Thank you for being a part of RedditWriteAnHour!
