I’ve never been in a writing club but I’m interested in trying to get one going. Would anyone else be interested in giving it a go? I don’t have to lead it, but will do so if no one else wants to.

What I’m picturing:

  • Monthly check-in cadence
  • Everyone sets a personal goal, and then talks about how they did the previous month
  • No pressure other than what you want to take on to motivate you
  • Maybe some “assignments” in the vein of a creative writing class
  • I volunteer to send members reminder DMs to motivate them :)

I was thinking I’d just start with this post - come up with a goal for myself to accomplish by end of June, and then check back sometime in the first week of July. If that sounds interesting to you, feel free to join in and comment with your goal, and any details you want to add.

PS Also very open to writing club discussion meta. I’m new to this so wide open to suggestios, comments, critique, etc.

Participants

@JacobCoffinWrites - goal
@grrgyl - goal
@hazeebabee - goal
@Pip - goal

  • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    Oh an idea: we could make a writing club community where people can post about process and post stories to get feedback. Then there could be a pinned weekly/monthly post that has goals and other general discussion and well as letting people say if they want motivational DMs

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      I like this idea a lot. I was wondering about how to organise everything in one post, and it’s probably a recipe for disaster after a certain size haha. A specialised community is a good solution for that.

      I do want to see how things go here for a bit before getting too fancy, since this is a pretty quiet community, and also my motivation has a way of fleeing me as soon as Monday rolls around hehe, so I don’t want to take on too much too quickly.

      • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        Makes sense, a new community probably wouldn’t be necessary at the start & this community could probably use the extra traffic anyways :)

        Maybe a way to organize it within the post is having topic specific comments? You could even link to the comments within the main body of the post.

        For example you could have a comment that says: comment here for dm motivation. Then people can reply to that specific comment and it’ll all be nested. Things might get tricky if the post gets too much activity, but I get the feeling it will probably be a small group :)

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          1·
          13 days ago

          I like the idea of linking things back to the main post yeah. Very small scale, but probably adequate for our use, like you said :)

          For DM motivation I’m just going to take the risk and assume that unless someone says otherwise that they will be ok with it.

          I wasn’t planning on really hectoring anyone: just a gentle reminder about a week before the “deadline” that there is at least one person (me) who will be genuinely curious about any progress (or no) that they’ve made towards their goal.

          • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            12 days ago

            I think thats a great approach & your energy seems perfect for it, kind and motivating without feeling overbearing :)