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Questions tagged [community]

This tag should be used for questions that are related to writing communities, such as questions about finding communities on the internet to share your writing with or questions about building up your community of readers.

This tag should be used for questions that are related to writing communities, such as questions about finding communities on the internet to share your writing with or questions about building up your community of .

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Are there any places to have community story development?

Are there any places or ways a group (general public or individually invited) of people can individually contribute to a communally developed story? For example, a website or collaboration tool (besides Word files emailed back and forth).
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What are good places (online) where a community of writers can get together and share their knowledge about writing?

It would be nice to be a member of an online community of people who are knowledgeable about writing, willing to directly help eachother in a format such as Q&A (like here on SE), but also engage in activities out of scope for SE (which could range…
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How to increase my readers base for my blog?

I recently started writing a blog. It's about many things: travel, food, my perspectives, photography, comics, movies and whatever thing I feel about writing. I'm using a WordPress blog. Since I'm being new to this, I don't have any readers…
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What existing platforms use crowdsourcing to develop creative writing and editing?

What existing platforms use crowdsourcing to develop creative writing and editing? What are the barriers in developing an active community? Why would this not work? Has it been tried? Was it successful? If not, why did it fail? The idea I have and…
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Seeking advice on editing process through integration into online poetry writing communities

(Heavily edited in a sincere attempt to reduce subjectivity / instigation of unwieldy discussion or chattiness:) As a novice writer of poetry, who lives with folks who smile and nod with the sound of crickets chirping in the background when I tell…
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Which platform offers secure poetry sharing with feedback while preventing plagiarism?

I'm a poetry learner looking for a platform that allows me to share my work securely with a small group for feedback while preventing plagiarism. Specifically, I need a platform that: Allows controlled access (so only selected people can view my…
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First person plural for charisma?

I've been writing a friendly tutorial series for a small art software community. Somehow I decided to write it in first person plural, so the entire tutorial is "First, let's do this..." and "Now we can choose to do that…". In the past I have…
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What's a good writer community that mostly discusses self-publishing?

I'm apart of a lot of strong and well read writer communities that mostly discuss traditional means of publishing. However, I want to broaden my knowledge on the nature of self-publishing. Are there any writers' communities that deal specifically…
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Is there an online critique community for stories written in german?

I am writing fiction in german. I am looking for a place to share my work, where I can get constructive criticism. The site should provide some mechanism that encouraged constructive feedback and some kind of voting mechanism for published stories.…
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Starting a literary magazine

Because of the corona outbreak, I'm stuck at home (as I'm sure lots of you are) and I decided to start a nonprofit online literary magazine dedicated to providing a platform for marginalized voices. However, I'm not completely sure how to establish…
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IRC for Creative Writers

Are there any 'active' irc channels designed for writers? I say active, because I've found a couple channels, bit they were all empty.
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Which English writer community website to give the free feedback on a writing content?

I'm interested in becoming an associate ghostwriter/semi-writer as part of freelance work. So, I want to find a group of English writers (online community) to review a writing content and give me the feedback respectively. My writing skill is…
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What are some good (free) writing communities?

I'm new to writing, I just finished the first draft of the first novel I've written (yay!) and I'm looking for writing groups or communities that I can benefit from. Is there a community that helps people get feedback on their writing, or one that…
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Story-Telling on the Internet

Possible Duplicate: Internet communities where I can read/rate/review short fiction, and post my own? I am a user of Cowbird already, and I love it, but I want to branch out, and go to other story-telling sites, so I can get more feedback. I…
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Books versus YouTube videos

I was wondering, and hope this question is not too broad, but these days, what are the advantages of writing a book versus making a series of YouTube videos? Do people read any more, or do they just watch videos online instead of cinema movies,…
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