Get Your Words Out

GYWO is not just a community of writers, it is a community within a community of writing communities. (Say that ten times fast.) We want you to get your words out however you need to, including by joining and participating in other writing communities. The communities below are affiliates and friends who have lovingly supported GYWO over the years by allowing us to advertise in their communities.

If there’s a writing community you’d like to promote, feel free to leave a promo in the comments.

If you run a writing community and would like to affiliate, please let us know.

Descriptions taken from community user info

betaplease
Beta, please! is a community for writers and beta-readers of all fandoms and writing styles. Obscure fandoms and original fiction are also welcome!

dailyprompt
Everyday a new prompt will be posted. Write as much or as little as you want! Original fiction, fanfiction, poetry, song lyrics—if the prompt inspires you, move with it.

drabble_zone
This community is for people who enjoy writing 100 word drabbles and is open to all fandoms. There is a new challenge prompt every Saturday.

fandomweekly
This is a multifandom weekly fic challenge community, where participants write a short fanfic (1000 words or less) based on a prompt. Each challenge has two elements: a Weekly Theme which the entry must be modeled on, and a Bonus Goal which may be a phrase or other specific aspect to include or work with.

fffc
Every Friday offers a new challenge for flash fiction. All fandoms are welcome, as are original works.

fic_promptly
A multi-fandom comment fic community for Dreamwidth. Anyone may leave prompts or fill prompts.

ficlet_zone
A monthly multi-fandom fic writing community. All fic lengths are welcome.

genprompt_bingo
Gen Prompt Bingo is a low commitment multi-fandom, multi-media bingo challenge. Its aim is to provide bingo cards of gen-style prompts to be used as inspiration in creating fic, images, meta, fanmixes, vids or any other kind of fannish activities. Prompt lists are renewed at the start of December and April, and new cards can be claimed then even if a previous card has not been completed.

rainbowfic
RainbowFic is an original fiction community built to encourage writing and act as home base for a community of authors. We provide lists of prompts, sorted by color, and special add-ons of style or content, to spark inspiration.

thedailywriter
This community will serve as a place to encourage you to write every single day, whether it be 100 words or 1000 words, as long as you get something down on paper. The community is friendly to all sorts of writing endeavors—fanfic, original fiction, creative nonfiction, school essays, whatever needs to be written, basically.

ushobwri
A support group for struggling writers of any genre to talk about writing and share bits. On Mondays there are inspiration posts and Thursdays are check-in/workshop days.

writethisfanfic
A community to help you write fanfiction. Our goal is to provide support & resources for any fic writers, but particularly those wanting to write their first (or almost first) fanfiction

writingfrenzy
A short-term accountability group to help you actually get something written. Whatever you're working on – fanfiction, original works – and whatever your pairing – slash, gen, het, whatever – you are welcome to play here!

GYWO is not just a community of writers, it is a community within a community of writing communities. (Say that ten times fast.) We want you to get your words out however you need to, including by joining and participating in other writing communities. The communities below are affiliates and friends who have lovingly supported GYWO over the years by allowing us to advertise in their communities.

If there’s a writing community you’d like to promote, feel free to leave a promo in the comments.

The majority of these communities are on DW because our DW community came later and needed more promotion. If you run a writing community and would like to affiliate, please let us know.

All descriptions taken from the community’s user info

daily_prompt
Everyday a new prompt will be selected - this prompt can be a word, a lyric, an image or a quote. The rest is up to you! Write as much or as little as you want! Original fiction, fanfiction, poetry, song lyrics - if the prompt inspires you, move with it.

fandomweekly
This is a multifandom weekly fic challenge community, where participants write a short fanfic (1000 words or less) based on a prompt. Each challenge has two elements: a Weekly Theme which the entry must be modeled on, and a Bonus Goal which may be a phrase, or other specific aspect to include or work with.

fic_promptly
A multi-fandom comment fic community for Dreamwidth. Anyone my leave prompts or fill prompts.

openveinwriting
Open Vein Writing is a place where writers come together to encourage the characters in their heads to share with each other. This is NOT an RPG but in fact a place for writers to be writers.

rainbowfic
RainbowFic is an original fiction community built to encourage writing and act as home base for a community of authors. We provide lists of prompts, sorted by color, and special add-ons of style or content, to spark inspiration.

sixwordstories
It is inspiration and exploration and creation. It is what you make it, so long as you make it six words.

writethisfanfic
A community to help you write fanfiction. Our goal is to provide support & resources for any fic writers, but particularly those wanting to write their first (or almost first) fanfiction