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Considering a dual-Stack effort to help authors solve story crafting problems
We the Worldbuilding.SE community would like to invite the Writing.SE community to join us in a bit of a revolution.
For over a decade we've danced around the issue of stoy-based questions. In essence,...
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Is it okay to delete my answerless questions because I've already figured out solutions?
I've posted two questions that I deleted because I was able to think up working solutions before anyone could answer. Since I already have my answers, I deleted the questions. Is this appropriate ...
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Can I post my work here for critique? [duplicate]
I'm a fairly inexperienced writer who has been trying to get good at poetry. I notice there are no posts of people posting their work directly, which leads me to think this may be against the rules. ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #4 on Writing has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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It seems that someone is systematically downvoting my answers
I have noted a change in the pattern of downvotes I have received in recent weeks. While I have always received downvotes, those downvotes were sporadic and usually on a current post. Recently I have ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
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Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Writing Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2025-...
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What's with all the discouraging and patronising people on here?
Honestly I'm really disappointed to see so many awful replies to people's questions. I've seen demeaning, critical and downright insulting things left as comments.
If you'd like to avoid seeming like ...
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Is asking for sources to help accurately/realistically write part of a FICTIONAL text allowed?
A question somewhat similar to this has been asked and answered here, in 2013, but… you know, that was 12 years ago. I’m sure that community standards have evolved since.
The question is self-...
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What should the new tag for questions about AI tools be called?
There have been a few questions recently that ask about aspects of using AI tools for writing. I have created an ai tag and applied it to those quesions. There are seven of them at the moment. (The ...
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Do old writing challenges ever ‘expire’?
According to this meta post about the Writing Meta Stack Exchange writing challenges themselves, the last writing challenge to be posted on this site was in August of 2023, and as of writing this, it ...
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Can we remove the do-not-ask-what-to-write rule?
They seem to be some of the most frequent questions that are being asked and many in the currently active community seem to enjoy answering them. So can we just allow them?
I wouldn't allow rewriting, ...
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Can I get critical analysis of poetries here? [duplicate]
Is it possible to get critical analysis on poetries here? If not, what other sites can I opt for the same?
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Getting the Word out for a Wattpad novel
I don't wish to spam boards or sites or anything really. However, I do enjoy it when people read my novels on Wattpad. I would like them to do it more often. So I want to invite people to try my ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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