HackerNews is a community of skilled professionals engaging politely with each other. It’s great for entrepreneurs and technical people.
Is there somewhere similar for writers? Especially fiction writers?
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?
#2https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/ was awesome. Max Landis would literally pass on good spec scripts posted on the internet by randos to his hollywood agent back in the day, and regale the hordes with making of anecdotes from "American Werewolf in London" ;)
Re: Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?
#3The other commenter mentioning reddit is probably right that it is closer to HN. All my writer friends use vocal.media though if you want to check that out
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#4https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/ was awesome. Max Landis would literally pass on good spec scripts posted on the internet by randos to his hollywood agent back in the day, and regale the hordes with making of anecdotes from "American Werewolf in London" ;)
What happened to it?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?
#5I really hope HN is able to supply a few communities. My wife is a writer/editor, so I'd love to share one with her.
I showed her HN, and the level of discourse that happens here, and she was really surprised at the level of discourse that happens here.
If nothing else, maybe someone with some motivation sees an opportunity to create such a community. May or may not involve cloning dang.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?
#6Have you found any slack groups that offer this?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?
#7Not really for sharing links, but for discussion there's https://writing.stackexchange.com
And for general use of the English language, there's: https://english.stackexchange.com
Re: Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?
#8If you are willing to kickstart one, there's this generic hacker news clone I maintain where you can create a writing community. Make a "Writing" category of post tags and I will put it in the public category list :)
Re: Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?
#9I really hope HN is able to supply a few communities. My wife is a writer/editor, so I'd love to share one with her. I showed her HN, and the level of discourse that happens here, and she was really surprised at the level of discourse that happens here. If nothing else, maybe someone with some motivation sees an opportunity to create such a community. May or may not involve cloning dang.
Yeah I think without dang, HN would be a very different place. The tone and guidelines enforcement is a result of the HN culture, the HN culture comes as a direct result of the moderation feedback dang and other HN mods have consistently given.
While I would love to join a community (I used to use writing.com a ton) of HN but for fiction writers not startup owners plus us hangers on, I don't know if that can be done without a good moderation team.
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#10I have discussed this idea with friends who are writers / artists. Call me a cynic, but while many writers / artists aspire to collective shared knowledge, the reality of both the writing and art market is that unique knowledge is an important differentiator and an asset to their careers. If you do find a fascinating, rare 19th century travel journal in some online archive the last thing you are going to do is share it with others like you until you're sure that you're not going to use it as material yourself. The exception to this being other writers completed work (ie long-form articles, books), but that probably doesn't need a focus on writers / artists per se and a more general "aesthete" HN might work better...