Hello all! I'm FoxPaw, nice to meet you. Ha! Finally I've found an active forum centered around writing! (Typing "writing forum" into the Google search engine seemed to slip my mind until tonight, but I'm here now and and that's what matters. =P) I've been in a writing slump as of late and I haven't been able to get out of it, so by joining this forum I'm hoping to be able to writing freely again along with improving my writing skills. Two birds with one stone - not bad. I've looked around a bit and this place looks great! I still have a few questions, but I'll just ask those when the times arise. I look forward to being here. =) Quick Question: For the first fourteen days, am I not allowed to post at all (aside from the Introduction post), or am I just not allowed to post in the Writing Workshop specifically? (Aside from those two critiques.)
You can't start to imagine how lucky you are. You don't want to understand where could that same search have sent you. I suggest: - Lurking. - Reviewing. - Chatting. - Posting to the workshops. In that order.
Welcome to Writing Forums, FoxPaw! I hope you find what you're looking for here, whatever your interests in writing. This forum aims to provide the best workshopping resources on the internet, and to that end we have a few rules which you should familiarise yourself with before you get stuck in. The main section of the site is the Writing Workshop, where members can post their writing in order to receive critique of their work. However, before we allow members to post their work, they must have met some basic requirments. Firstly, you must have been a member for fourteen days, and have made twenty posts on the forum overall (please note, posts in Word Games do not count towards this). This is so that members, when they post their work, have familiarised themselves with the forums and contributed to them (as well as hopefully learned something for themselves). Secondly, members must provide two constructive reviews of other people's work for each piece of their own that they wish to post. This is because we believe that the focus of workshopping should be equally upon giving reviews as receiving them, as they allow a writer to practice and improve their editing skills, which they can then apply to their own writing. Beyond the Writing Workshop, you will find that we have extensive forums for discussion of aspects of writing, as well as a community area for general discussion. We also run periodic short story and poetry contests, which are good for challenging yourself and expanding your skills. If you have any questions or problems, then the moderators (myself and Cogito) should be your first port of call. Any technical problems with the site itself should be directed to Daniel, the site administrator and owner. I would recommend you have a look over the rules so that you know what to expect, and what is expected. But aside from that, I hope you enjoy your time here. Banzai
Hey foxpaw and welcome to the forums. This is definitely the best I've seen. The others are far too slow. Good luck with whatever.
Yeah, from what I've seen of it so far, this place if both timely and provides great feedback. Thanks for the welcome, Protar and Gigi_GNR. =)
Yeah, even the feedback is great to the point where it's hard to critique on works that've already been looked at! XD It's hard to come up with new advice when all I was going to point out was already said. =)
