Good places to post writing online?

December 27, 2015 8:55 AM

You'd think Google would be best for this, but help me out: I have pieces of writing that I would like to share online (non fiction, poetry, short stories, etc.). I have joined various post-your-stuff sites, but I find most of them to be full of teens (which is great! Seems like the kids these days are just cranking stuff out...) posting teen type writing or fan fiction. I'm talking about Wattpad and similar sites. Do you know of any good writer's sites with a social/interactive element (ratings, following, etc.) that have a more mature/literary bent? Thanks! Happy new Year
posted by bobbyno to Writing & Language (8 answers total)

If you're after critical / workshop treatment, there's the PFFA for poetry. It's a bit narrow and stylised, and there's a slightly irritating culture of priding itself on brutality, but it's possible to have very good in-depth conversations about your work there.
posted by Aravis76 at 9:07 AM on December 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

Best answer: More adult groups tend to be focused on the path to publication and so are private or semi-private. They also tend to operate more as forum or email critique group for work you hope to publish than as a social media platform, so following and metrics aren't in the mix. Those are your Absolute Writes, Critters, etc.

That said, Kindle's WriteOn community might be what you're looking for.
posted by Andrhia at 9:18 AM on December 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

As per AO3's terms of service: "Although some users may want a place for all their creative work, our current vision of the Archive is of a place dedicated to fanworks in particular. The Archive was designed to serve the mission of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), which was 'established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms.'" They acknowledge that "original fiction that is part of an Open Doors project is allowed, as are types of original fiction and quasi-original fiction produced within a fandom context," but "presume that, by posting the work to the Archive, the creator is making a statement that they believe it's a fanwork."

(In short, AO3 is not a good place for non-fannish fiction.)

There are very few open social media writing sites that don't see a lot of traffic from teen and college-age writers; even when they don't make up the majority of users, that demographic usually has high output. However, you might try http://www.writerscafe.org, which tends to particularly skew older.
posted by northernish at 11:07 AM on December 27, 2015

Best answer: My first thought was Medium.
posted by jeri at 2:08 PM on December 27, 2015

I would think you could do this with almost any publication platform, such as tumblr, BlogSpot, medium, etc. It just depends on what platform you like. They all seem to allow for comments, following in some manner and so on. But you would need to carve out a niche for the kind of writing you do, which is maybe the thing you are hoping is more built in?
posted by Michele in California at 3:12 PM on December 27, 2015

Zoetrope All Story's Virtual Studio is a good place for adults who write.
posted by Miss T.Horn at 3:44 PM on December 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

Seconding Zoetrope.
posted by cocoagirl at 9:08 AM on December 28, 2015

Response by poster: Thanks everyone!
posted by bobbyno at 8:39 AM on January 1, 2016