#writing discord

[tahbhie]

How many drafts should you go through before deciding your novel is ready?

There's no specific (official) number, but to create a foundation that ensures you don't burn out quickly, overwork yourself, and get tired of your work, I'll say four. It's the same number I use for my students since most of them have other engagements outside writing that take up a copious amount of their time.

1. Initial or Zero Draft:

This draft is also called the 'just write' draft. Focus on putting that idea down. As the creative juices flow, let it all out. Don't worry about perfection or coherence; the goal is to capture your raw ideas and get the story out of your head and onto the page.

2. Second Draft:

This is the plot draft. Read through what you have written to see if every detail you added was meant to be. Here, you focus on the structure of your story. Ensure that the plot makes sense, the pacing is right, and there are no major plot holes. This is where you might add, remove, or rearrange scenes to improve the overall flow of the narrative.

3. Third Draft:

Character development draft. In this stage, you look deeper into your characters. Make sure their motivations, backgrounds, and arcs are well-defined and consistent. Flesh out their personalities and relationships, ensuring they are compelling and believable. This is also a good time to refine dialogue and make sure it sounds natural and true to each character. That's for this drafting stage.

4. Fourth Draft:

Grammar and punctuation draft. This is the polishing stage. Focus on correcting grammatical errors, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. Pay attention to sentence structure, word choice, and overall readability. This draft is about making your manuscript as clean and professional as possible.

Keep in mind that the goal is to define what completion means for each draft. Once you reach the goal, take a break and return to it for the next drafting stage.

Some writers pay people to carry out some of the drafting stages for them, so if you fall into that category, you might have fewer drafting stages to handle yourself!

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Thank you all for the support 💜!

[rewritingrosie]

LOOKING FOR A WRITING COMMUNITY?

INVITE LOADING . . .

Rune & Ruin * social is dedicated to helping creatives like you! Our community is gentle, pro-liberation, and safe for LGBTQ+ members, always — and we’re temporarily open to new members again!

If you’re interested, come check us out at the LINK HERE.

ABOUT THE SERVER..

With an emphasis on establishing closely-knit, high quality support systems, our 17+, lovingly-crafted community is an easy home for all those who have an interest in creative writing, including screenwriters, artists, beta readers, and editors. All are welcome!

We has an invaluable amount of resource channels and forums accessible to members, updated near-daily. Exchange advice from aspiring, published, and debuting authors, join informal sprint contests, seek or sell commissions, and gossip about your favorite reads! You get what you put in.

At the end of the day, your safety, and comfort is our priority! We have an 18+ channel for mature literature and writing discussions, vent channels, and a variety of roles and aesthetic emotes for you to express yourself with. We host periodic events, including author collabs and ( yes!! ) book giveaways.

WHAT IF I’M IN AN CREATIVE BLOCK?

In * rune & ruin • social ଓ, there is no quota to produce. Take it slow. Just being involved is more than enough! We want to nurture you, not overwhelm you.

BIG SERVERS CAN BE INTIMIDATING. WHAT DO YOU DO TO REMEDY THAT?

Well, despite us being nearly 350+ members, most of us are split between several time zones. We prioritize healthy interactions, so it isn't like a sudden onslaught of self-promos between writers — no posting and dipping.

Most of our community members have known each other for several years now, and we really do care about building genuine friendships. If you interact with the prompts, chat revives, or even in casual conversation, it is very easy to bond with people here. That being said, staff is always here to help you with acclimating.

IS THE LINK EXPIRED? NOT WORKING?

If you have any difficulties, you can dm here, or on discord! My username is the same as it is on here, @rewritingrosie !

with love,

rosie !

[bunnis-monsters]

Anyways!!! My discord is very fun y’all should come join! We share ideas and writing, chat, chat about sexy stuff, sometimes we vc and play games!!

And the members there get sneak peeks of my upcoming works 🥰

Also I’m holding a watch party for over the garden wall this fall 👀

Thinking about streaming some gravity falls on discord too…

[ashintheairlikesnow]

Anyone still hoping to do a writing challenge for November? I've seen some talk of there being a good discord of people who have left NaNoWriMo after the... well. The Nonsense Brigade of the past couple years.

I'm also interested in what word tracker apps people are using.

I'm not sure if I'm going to keep the werewolf story up, by the way. I may be taking down the early chapters and trying to turn it into something I could potentially publish. That's a MAYBE, and I may do that with the siren story instead. Not sure yet.

I keep feeling like there is a seed of a story with the werewolf AND siren stories that would work well as a traditionally published novel.

Or hell, maybe I'll dust the Demon Cult story off again and go back to that...

[the-becom1ng]

hello tumblr!

are you a writer? have you ever wanted a small, supportive writing server?

do you feel personally victimized by the tragic lack of dragon-themed discord servers in the world today?

then you might be a good fit for the lair of writers!

a brand-new, dragon themed writing server owned by yours truly and moderated by @incohorace and @lesgay-falaloser, the lair of writers will fill the dragon shaped hole in your life you didn’t even know existed. we have a number of writing-specific channels as well as general ones, and the server is chock-full of useful bots, including tupperbox and pluralkit! join today and help us start a welcoming, dedicated community of writers. <3

[goodluckclove]

Writers of Tumblr - it's time to get a REAL JOB.

Why not join The Infinite Costco? It's a writing Discord space that truly commits to the bit. You can bounce ideas around on The Loading Dock, ask for advice and insight in the Warehouse, or just connect with other writers and form a community of cool people in Very Fashionable Vests.

The Infinite Costco is:

- Essentially age inclusive! If you're younger than 14 I'd say message me first. I highly encourage older writers to join the ranks and practice treating our younger colleagues as peers. Weird shit not tolerated obviously.

- Queer safe space!

- Not the place for whump or erotica. Infinite Costco has an Infinite HR department and they are not happy with me

- No jerks! No jerks. We are here to support and encourage each other to form a relationship with writing where we can work easily and happily.

Message me for the invite link!

[cactusprincewrites]

awesome writers room!!!

🙏 writeblr gods please see this, shine down upon my post from beyond pls 🙏

my boyfriend and i have recently taken over the discord server we met in and are trying to revive and grow the community there -- its a lovely cosy server open to fans of writing, art and character design, anyone who wants to make new friends to create and explore their imaginary worlds with or find peers to review and read their work

we also now have the facilities to post your own long-form stories, comics, galleries or blogs for other people to enjoy and react to in our own community hub (but truth be told rn, just between you and me, it's a lil bit empty -- and we'd love to have your incredible creativity to fill it)

it's very lbtq and poc friendly, and we hope many of you will make it your writing, art, and creativity home. it's also (drumrolllll) RIGHT HERE GUYS: [insert discord invite]

[writingwithfolklore]

Writing with Folklore Discord!

Hi all! I got some interest about a writing discord so here it is!

There's space to chat writing, books, WIPs, memes, and maybe potentially we'll stream together and play some games in the future, whatever you guys are interested in I can make happen!

Please let me know if you encounter any weirdness or issues and I'll try to fix them. Hope to see you all there! :-)

[cindol]

PAINDOL ━╋ !

a server created by @painism and @cindol !

This is a server created for friends and writers alike, must be at least 17 and older to join ! writer friendly and poc writer friendly 🫶🏾

server link

If you would like to join let’s break down the rules

O . 1 — racist jokes made towards races you aren’t apart of will not be tolerated if you aren’t apart of that group.

O . 2 — if there are issues between you and another member take it to the dms or somewhere more private.

O . 3 — if you suspect problematic people are in the server let a mod or the owner know in dms and we will look into it .

O . 4 — nsfw jokes outside of nsfw are not permitted outside of the nsfw channel . Slightly suggestives are fine but if it starts to get borderline nsfw take it to the channel it’s meant for.

O . 5 — no vents outside of the vent channel , will result in a timeout or even a ban .

owner — paindol / rain

co - owner — cindol / cinny / riri

reblog for reach please! @princessoflalaland @cyberneticfrk @aquasoftware

[sentfromwolves]

Hey furriends! ( •̀ ω •́ )y Are you a writer, an artist, maybe even both? Do you dabble in other crafts, or are you just interested in meeting other creators of all sorts? Maybe even playing games, or running your ocs through hunger game sims with others for kicks? If so, consider joining CLAWMARK!

This server is an 18+ creative crossroads discord server for creators of all kinds to get together and have fun chatting all things craft, characters, worldbuilding, plot suffering, yarn tangling, you name it! We're a chill space for creators to meet new friends and have a place to talk about their projects, but also just have fun together and have a safe haven to vibe in.

◈—« SOME QUICK HOUSEKEEPING »

◆ — This discord is 18+ only! You will be removed if you are found to be a minor. Please respect this rule, and do not join if you are not 18+. ◆ — All creators of all skill levels are welcome! While we are primarily writer-focused, this server is specifically for tons of different creators to get together and talk about their original works and also hang out. ◆ — All activity levels are welcome! We'll do semi-regular activity checks just to make sure the server is still serving people who are actively interested in being there, but even if you're only able to pop in once in awhile, that's totally fine!

Please note that this is a pretty experimental server, with the hopes of growing and refining the space as time goes on. While I'm not planning on making it events-focused, I'm not opposed to running events either if we gain enough members to warrant it!

If all of this sounds good to you,✨ feel free to follow this link to join! ✨(๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ We look forward to having you!

[waywardsou2]

Hey guys. I've recently made a discord server for my works. I know my works aren't that popular but if you've ready any of my stuff (or are into arcane at the moment like me) then it would mean the world to me if you would join and support me.

Thanks in advance

https://discord.gg/epnHWy9g

[i-rove-rock-n-roll]

Do you want to talk about your writing nonstop?

Do you want to hear others talk about their writing nonstop?

Do you need more writing friends?

If you want a serious writing group and some brand new friends, this is the server for you!

Dun dun dun dun! Introducing

Writing is like Knitting only without the yarn (wait…)

(HMU for server access!)

[rewritingrosie]

LOOKING FOR A WRITING SERVER?

INVITE LOADING . . . 🦇

* rune & ruin • social ଓ

╭ ʚɞ︰( noun ) : a 17+, comfort-oriented writing group with chaos-loving members, resource channels, advice forums, and an unlimited amount of cat memes!

< 3 safe for writers with burn-out just wanting to be around other creatives!

cw: photosensitive gif used!

╭ ʚɞ : our upcoming events :

* rune & ruin • social ଓ will be hosting a vc event for character design & oc building tomorrow, july 20th, 2024 at 1pm cst.

—- next week’s vc event is to be announced!

Staff applications are still open!

LINK IS HERE.

If for some reason, the link is invalid upon seeing this ad, please dm!

[bunnis-monsters]

Discord server link is back up for 24 hours. Just felt like doing it.

Come join while you can. It won’t be open again until December 1st!

[moon-and-seraph]

M+S Discord Server Details!

The server will be a place where writers of original fiction can hang out and participate in writing sprints, but it will also have spaces for writing chatter and sharing snippets!

Our hope is to build a community to support and motivate each other throughout the writing process, so if that sounds like something you'd like to be part of, we would love to have you!

Writing Sprints

A bot will help make writing sprints simple by automating times and calculating word counts for you.

Writing Chatter

Channels are set aside for talking about anything writing-related. Ask for advice, share tips, and discuss your favorite writing methods.

Weekly Themes

A theme will be posted every Sunday, and you can share a snippet related to it. This is optional, but a fun chance for us all to leave positive feedback on each other's writing.

A few things to know

The server will be 18+ only

Writers of all original fiction genres and skill-levels are welcome

Everyone is welcome regardless of how often you're able to be active

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask!

[catgirl-catboy]

Trying to set up a pan-fandom writing server <3

18+

Fandom old/Ship and Let Ship

Cool place to share writing resources, stuff like that. If that interests you, check it out here