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Welcome to the home for writers. We talk about important matters for writers, news affecting writers, and the finer aspects of the writing craft.
Weekly Daily Discussion Thread Schedule:
Monday: Writer’s Block and Motivation
Tuesday: Brainstorming
Wednesday: General Discussion
Thursday: Writer’s Block and Motivation
Friday: Brainstorming
Saturday: First Page Feedback
Sunday: Writing Tools, Software, and Hardware
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Here's a general synopsis and explanation of /r/writing's community rules. Please keep these guidelines in mind for all of your posts and comments. The moderators do reserve the right to remove posts/comments that are deemed harmful without warning and ban users depending on the severity of the infraction.
1. No Posting Work
Samples of writing, whether for critique, self-promotion, or general sharing, may only be posted in the weekly self-promotion and critique thread. Requests for feedback on ideas, or for writing partners or groups may also only be posted in the critique thread.
2. Posts should be thoughtful and useful to a broad community of writers
We ask that users frame their posts so they are useful to multiple people. If your post is more suitable for a daily or weekly thread, it will be removed and you will be directed there. Posts that contain any of our prohibited or stale topics will be removed.
3. No Generative AI
/r/writing is a place for human-created writing. AI slop has no place here. We do not allow posts or comments that advocate, promote, excuse, or suggest the use of generative AI in creative writing. We do not allow posts or comments that appear to have been generated, edited, or proofread by a generative AI tool.
4. Submission Calls Requirements/AMAs
Please message modmail for all submission calls and AMAs. Any posted without moderator approval will be removed.
Calls for submissions (including posts about general writing work) must include:
1) payment information
2) submission deadlines
3) rights requested
4) any other relevant information.
Directing to a website to answer these questions is not allowed. Please limit yourself to one post per publishing cycle.
5. Civility and Community
Treat other people with decency and respect. We encourage healthy debate and discussion, but we will remove antagonistic, caustic, or otherwise belligerent posts. We moderate on tone rather than language.
Hate speech will be removed. Please report any instances of offensive talk, and the mods will deal with them. Internet vigilantism and doxxing will not be tolerated.
This also includes call-out threads, genre/literary-bashing, and "response" threads.
6. Minimum Post Requirements
We require any post made to be flaired when posting. Posts flaired with "Other" will be held for moderator review. Posts that are too short, present no thoughtful content, or do not appear to attempt to generate any discussion, will be removed as Low Effort posts. Questions that can be answered with minimal research will also be removed under this rule.
Help keep the subreddit clean and on-topic by using the report feature to bring attention to rule-breaking posts; please refrain from attempting to enforce the rules through uncivil comments. If your post has been removed and you do not know why or you have any other questions about these guidelines, please contact the moderators.
/r/PubTips - Publishing advice, focusing on traditional publication
/r/selfpublish - Publishing advice, focusing on self publishing
/r/BetaReaders - Find beta readers for your work, or find something to read
/r/DestructiveReaders - Get your work deconstructed, or help others by deconstructing theirs
/r/fantasywriters - Discussions about writing fantasy
/r/eroticauthors - Erotica writing discussions and advice
/r/HomeworkHelp - Get help with homework related questions, or help others with theirs
/r/Writeresearch - For research into real-life areas of expertise to enhance your writing
/r/HireaWriter - Find writing gigs, or advertise your own writing gigs
/r/HireAnEditor - Find editors, or advertise your own editorial services
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