✍️ Writing
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. Solarpunk rules still apply. The general rules of solarpunk of course still apply.
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Yes, based on a recent topic here I thought it would be interesting to write a Solarpunk story from the perspective of an "anti-hero" sort of narcissist or so. Something that doesn't villify these mental health issues but shows how a Solarpunk society sort of manages their deficiencies.
That sounds interesting and I'll want to read it!
The story I'm trying to put together tries to include all the imperfect and awful people that just happen to exist already, given the chance to sort themselves out after given the chance to do so undisturbed by central government. The global fossil fuel supply chain and telecommunications are suddenly interrupted by some disaster, and people are forced to self-organize in their local communities. The anti-hero is reluctantly sent out on a hero's journey that then after all will not be one (the long journey short, after all, the difficult problem solved by other communities happy to share). So it's set up to start rather dramatic and then works out to be a lot more slice-of-life. A lot of it is about getting along with a range of annoying people - from the full-blown armed militarist invader to the bullshit artist narcissist (and how exactly the getting along works is to be worked out, and a lot of the stuff we discuss here helps the writing along).