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Writing Club - December 2025

grrgyle@slrpnk.netM to ✍️ Writing@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Welcome to the 18th writing club update, and the last day of the year according to the computer. Looking at, ummm let’s see… Oh! Looking at E1M8 of Doom (1993 video game), the last level, or “mission” of the first episode (the level chiefly authored by Tom Hall & Sandy Petersen, with score by Robert Prince) has you confronting two “Baron” enemies. And isn’t that just like life? The Barons may differ (financial ruin & job loss, or capitalism & fascism), and the weapons too (revolution, or mutual aid, or rocket launchers), but the struggle is the same.

Anyway, good luck to us all in the coming year with your own Barons, whether personal or societal. Also, speaking of shareware (Episode 1 was offered freely), let us now sharew…words; about, our projects!

I won’t @ everyone in this post, mostly to emphasise that blessed randos are just as welcome as regular participants. So here’s to our writers 🥳️ I look forward to reading your updates!

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2 months ago
Thanks :) It probably partially me being hard on myself for not writing more long form content meant to be shared. I appriciate the reminder to be happy with what I am doing though :))

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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.

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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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