Questions tagged [discussion]
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How do I include line breaks on this website?
I have written a poem on this site, posted it, then reviewed it. I noticed that the line breaks weren't appearing and had to put a backslash (/) instead. Any ideas?
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Why was my question downvoted, and how can I improve it?
I posted this question a while back: Multiple-paragraph block quotation. Soon after I posted it, someone downvoted the question without any explanation. I posted a comment asking the anonymous ...
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Are questions about AI story generation without human interaction on topic?
Can large language models write novels now?
This question sparked some discussion in the comments that should really be on Meta. Here.
Before anything, I hereby dump the comment section of the ...
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Stricter rules for off-topic questions
A frequent type of question is: "I want to write a scene in which [something] happens, but I don't know how to write it. Please help!"
A recent example is How Do I Write A Music Video Scene? ...
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2025: 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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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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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
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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