Writing forum

[Virus]

http://www.WritersDiscussion.info

This is one of the few forums based off of nothing but writing. No books, but simply writing, and all the criteria of writing.

Are you an author? Do you wish to share your work with people who truly care? Wish for some help with your writing? Check us out now!

We have special content to guarantee you the best results with your writing. We offer reviews for your forums, and all of our members and community will always be willing to help you improve, give their input, and simply show you that they care. If you love to write, and wish for your work to be cherished then view our site now!

 

[Guardian]

Great topic! Might have to tell my wife about this one. Good luck with it. Could use some filler content IMO to help pull people in. You should check out Postloop or the post exchanges here to help out with that.

 

[Virus]

I do not like to use that, because then it leaves inactive members. In post exchanges each user is only looking out for themselves in the situations. I find this pretty bad, and looks bad personally.

What do you mean by filler content btw, is that the same thing as using the post loop, ect. If so, I'd rather not to be honest :/

Thank you btw, I loved writing, and found little writing forums that are based on true writing.

 

[Guardian]

I do not like to use that, because then it leaves inactive members. In post exchanges each user is only looking out for themselves in the situations. I find this pretty bad, and looks bad personally.

What do you mean by filler content btw, is that the same thing as using the post loop, ect. If so, I'd rather not to be honest :/

Thank you btw, I loved writing, and found little writing forums that are based on true writing.

I was just recommending it because I have seen in the past that mainstream users do not want to join a forum that looks empty. Main reason.

You're right, it is a very unfulfilled niche. If you stick with it, you will so well. :great:

 

[Virus]

Thank you Farside. It is hard to get the initial posts, after this however I hope for it to be easier to gain members 🙂

 

[LunarScorpio]

This is one of the few forums based off of nothing but writing. No books, but simply writing, and all the criteria of writing.

I'm just curious as to where you've looked for other writing forums. A quick Google search and many great ones come up such as Writing Forum (.com/.org), WritersBeat (.com), The Writers Forum (.net) and more. How is your writing forum different from these or any others?

 

[Virus]

these sites require you to post 10 times on other posts, give 10 reviews, ect. before posting. This is very time consuming for most people, and they much rather post their story, and then communicate if they wish. This is what we provide. The only thing that requires posts are the reviews, and you can purchase a review with the in-forum money you get by posting.

 

[LunarScorpio]

Again, I’m not sure where you’re getting this information from. On the sites that I listened, none of them require you to post 10 times or give 10 reviews as you mention above. The most I’ve seen anyone require is that a member make one to two reviews before getting a formal review of their work to make sure that members are “spreading the love” so-to-speak and to make sure people are receiving quality reviews.

You can go on sites and post your work whenever you please on most writing forums and you’ll get some sort of feedback. Some forums have recommendations that you post in other places to familiarize yourself with the forum and get to know people, but there are no requirements and if there are there are none that are as extreme as you’re trying to make them look. One of the sites--I believe Writing Forum (.com)--even says that if you’re looking to gain some replies and feedback on your work to send a polite PM to a staff member.

So, I’m still not seeing how your site is different from these other writing forums. As a writer, I'm just trying to figure out why I should join your site opposed to one of these others.

 

[Virus]

We are a brand new forum, so the structure of everything is quite new. Since we are brand new, it will be hard to guarantee anything that we can out provide for an older forum. What we can provide is a more in touch community because of the small size of the forum currently. This means it is easier to grow bonds with the new, and older members of the forums, it is easier to possibly become a staff member, and to contact the staff members. We are always willing to improve based on the members needs, and we will be willing to redistrict if needed. Since we are new, we are always open to content such as affiliates, ect.

Our main goal is to have your content viewed, help you out, and share your work with the rest of the community. I am unaware of the rest of the forums to be honest, and my goal is to simply have a working community that is loving, caring, and willing to share their opinions, ideas, and stories with everyone. Rather if that is what the other community strives for is a different story.

 

[GAF]

Good luck with it 🙂 Keep it going.

 

[Jin Sane]

Looks great, man. I'm a writer so I'll likely be joining your forum soon.

May I suggest you add a general discussion board? Or perhaps an "off-topic" sort of board where your members can discuss anything that's not related to writing? I imagine it would help the community to get to know eachother better and it'd probably create some of that "filler" content mentioned earlier.

 

[Virus]

i went ahead and added a Generalized section to the forum. Thank you all for the suggestions, hope to see you on the forum soon 🙂<br /><br />-- 21 Feb 2012, 11:38 --<br /><br />We or still, and always looking for active writers. If you write stories, poems, ect. then join on in, we will always be glad to have you along 🙂

 

[LunarScorpio]

You kind of danced around my previous statement and question. Yes, I’m well aware that your site is new; however, you keep saying that your community has X and that other writing communities don’t when it’s simply not true. For example, you say that, “What [you] can provide is a more in touch community because of the small size of the forum currently,” but what’s to say that other writing forums, despite their size, don’t have an “in touch community”? What’s to say that people can’t and don’t “grow bonds with the new, and older member of the forum…”? Also, personally, I’m not sure how good it is that you say it’s “easier to possibly become a staff member” because that, to me, makes it seem as if you’ll bring just about anyone onto staff despite their capabilities or lack thereof. You also say that “We are always willing to improve based on the members needs…” but again, what’s to say other writing forums are not? And again, “Since we are new, we are always open to content such as affiliates, ect.” many other writing forums are also open to affiliates and others would probably get more benefits if they affiliate with those sites opposed to yours.

Our main goal is to have your content viewed, help you out, and share your work with the rest of the community. I am unaware of the rest of the forums to be honest, and my goal is to simply have a working community that is loving, caring, and willing to share their opinions, ideas, and stories with everyone. Rather if that is what the other community strives for is a different story.

Isn’t that the main goal of most, if not all, writing forums? What’s to say that other writing forums are not “a working community that is loving, caring, and willing to share their opinions, ideas, and stories with everyone”? You also say that you aren’t aware of these other writing forums, so you really cannot go around saying that there are no other ‘good’ writing forums out there when you apparently haven’t looked around enough.

It just doesn’t seem, to me, as if you’ve done your research on this forum topic if you’re claiming “This is one of the few forums based off of nothing but writing.” It’s just a bit ludicrous to me honestly when there are hundreds, maybe thousands of writing forums that are, like your own, dedicated to “nothing but writing.”

So, again, I’m still looking for something that makes your site unique to the other writing forums I’ve personally been to. You're making these inaccurate claims, but have little to back them up, or so it seems. Yes I realize your site is new, but you’re claiming that there are so few writing forums about nothing aside from writing when there are; though, technically now that you’ve put in a general discussion board, your forum is no longer “based off of nothing but writing,” but I suppose that’s neither here nor there. You have to be aware of your competition, which it doesn’t seem that you are, so my suggestion would be to do some research on what is out there.

Again, I’m not trying to argue or “bash” your site. I’m simply trying to gain information. ^^

 

[Virus]

To be completely honest, I danced around the issue because I am, in all honesty not sure what you wish the answer should be. You said there are a lot of forums, yet you only listed a few. When I claim to be one of the only pure writing forums I was merely saying to most niches writing is a tad bit smaller than the rest. Look at the promotion, you will see admin forums, gaming forums, general discussion forums, ect. But rarely see many writing forums, as said here: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=85023 there are not to many writing forums as all other niches, and most have disbanded. As for the rest, it was all assumption as is. I am not mad, nor thinking you are arguing, nor bashing my site. I am actually quite glad you brought up this point, as it does tell me I need a tad bit more research in the field of writing forums. Google shows little, to no help as I can only find few writing forums. And I simply based that, and the promotion section off of that theory that there were little to no writing forums.

 

[LunarScorpio]

First and foremost, you really shouldn’t be trying to find the answer that I want because if I had the answer I wouldn’t be asking. ^^ I’ve asked it numerous amounts of times, what makes your forum unique to others and what makes you think that your site is one of the few ‘good’ writing sites out there? There are a lot of writing forums, but do you really want me to sit around and post name after name of each one? I mean, I honestly could and would do that if that’s what you’d like, but it would take a very long time. When I Google “writing forums” there are pages upon pages of writing forums that come up and are exactly what you say are few of. Yes, some are better than others, but there are many of them. I could be wrong, and please correct me if I am, but I kind of get the impression that you and others from that thread are only looking at promotion sites for writing forums. This isn’t necessarily the “scene” where owners of writing forums will promote their site or so I’ve personally noticed. They’ll go to other promotion forums that are more niche based so-to-speak or they’ll put their thread in a place like this once and then move on. So you are correct in saying there aren’t many writing forums like yours here, but I would debate that there aren’t a ton out there.