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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. No LLM advocacy. Due to the many ethical problems of current LLM technology, we neither allow LLM-written posts in this community nor do we think discussing the use of LLMs for writing texts in any positive manner is appropriate. Don’t feed people’s works into commercial LLM services either.

6. Solarpunk rules still apply. The general rules of the solarpunk instance of course still apply.

Click here to visit our solarpunk writing resource wiki!

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Writing Club - July 2026 (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by ellie@slrpnk.net to c/writing@slrpnk.net

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Welcome to the 25th writing club update! 😊

I hope you've all found some nice cozy spots in the shade, to do some creative thinking or writing. Or perhaps some of you have been taking a break, there's nothing wrong with that either!

The usual info about how this writing club update works:

To anyone stumbling upon this post and wondering about the rules – there really aren’t any! This is a club for mostly the same regulars and semi-regulars, but visitors are encouraged to comment on writing updates or share their own. The main idea is to set a goal for yourself and try to achieve it by the next month’s update. :)

Feel free to comment and tell us how things are going for you, regarding writing, creative works, and everything related!

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[–] foxymochakitten@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Y'know I'd never thought about this directly but I'm realizing that it's been sort of on the periphery of my brain lately - I recently installed Linux on my other laptop and have been delightedly customizing it to suit my specific needs. The other day my partner asked about something and I was like "Here why don't you just boot up my laptop, the password is XYZ, I'll come help in a minute" Cue my partner being absolutely baffled as to how my laptop works.

Since then I've been thinking about standardization/convenience vs function and all those complicated big thoughts. People don't switch to Linux (and my partner does not want to use my laptop XD) because it's not familiar to them, because unfamiliar things are inconvenient and inconvenience takes energy. But something like Linux can be made so it suits the user extremely well, like my laptop, so it functions much better (for me) than, say, the standard Windows layout. I suspect where this is going is that we should design things for function rather than standardization in many cases. To do that, we'll have to remove the things that are making people choose convenience every time - our good ol' enemy Capitalism. But once we sort that out, think how well stuff could work for people!

Anyway, that's a bit of a ramble, but TL;DR I'm excited by the idea of well-functioning but unusual systems and I'm looking forward to reading your wiki page c:

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[–] JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

Same! I'm actually about to start posting around asking for anyone's favorite examples, and digging into permiculture forums which are often a gold mine for this stuff.

I'm 100% with you on linux, I've run into the same situation and conclusions a few times. In fact a lot of how I live tends to involve having to explain the quirks of whatever system to people who want to use them, and I'm still in an apartment with standard up-to-code water, electricity, and sewer hookups. I've known homesteaders who were far and away further along on that stuff than I am. I'm excited to see what we can gather up here, as one of my ongoing projects features a mostly-abandoned region where people likely would have introduced some high-context systems just to get by once the grid and everything else started to fall apart. And those systems have had decades to metastasize until each location is weird in its own way.

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