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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 - August 2026 (slrpnk.net)

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Welcome to the 26th writing club update!

I hope everyone has been having a pleasant late summer. The weather here has been a mix of rain and sunshine back and forth, in an almost 50/50 mix that I don't recall seeing for years. It's been great for the vegetables, anyway.

To quote from previous entries:

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, or writing adjacent, updates or share their own. The idea is to set a goal for yourself and try to achieve it by the next month's update. :)

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[–] JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

Well the big news for me is that we finished the solarpunk TTRPG campaign book and handouts and we're gearing up to release it! It's been almost three years and I'm really excited to share it (and also to be done working on it).

I need to put together a writeup for my website, lemmy, reddit etc, and we're working on a blurb for the itch.io and DriveThruRPG pages. Andrew is reaching out to different people in the solarpunk, eco fiction, etc spaces to see if they'll give it a mention etc.

In other news I got the page on High Context Living far enough along to add to our worldbuilding resource wiki (these things are never really done but it's great to have a place to save relevant bits of info as I learn about them). Please feel free to message me with any additions you think fit, or if you'd like to add a topic!

I'm excited to go back to making one-off bits of solarpunk art for a while, to pick up the gamebook again, and to help some writer friends with setting up bookbinding versions of their books! (I help by making covers, helping them create interposed, print-ready PDFs, walking them through bookbinding their own copies, and ideally drafting tutorial on binding the books. It's part of an ongoing project to help make indie publishing a little more like indie music, with an emphasis on DIY and a rejection of trying to mimic the mainstream stuff. I'm hoping to show people that home bookbinding can be easy and produce some really high quality books with some cool/weird advantages over the mass market stuff.

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