Hi. It’s nice to meet everyone. I’m a writer. I’ve been looking for some old style type forum for writing for a while now. I used to use sites like inkpop, wattpad, and figment but from what i can tell they don’t really exist anymore. I know lots of people who use tumblr and discord and the like but to be honest i’m not very well versed in using those platforms and i have no idea how I would make tumblr work or discord work as a way to make new writing friends and get critiques and all that type of stuff. Both just really, really overwhelm me and so does most social media. But it seems like those are like the most popular places these days. I have no clue how one gets like…in a group on tumblr or discord though since from what i understand tumblr is reblogging images and fandom stuff and discord is chatting.
Maybe we met on Wattpad back when there was the forums there? Or figment? Or maybe Querytracker? Your name kinda reminds me of someone I knew on Querytracker a while ago.
I’m in and out of places. I think I was on here for a few months like…years ago but I didn’t really stick around cuz I got overwhelmed.
Huh. I know I knew someone on Querytracker with a similar name but must be a coincidence. Well, nice to see you again. I wasn’t sure how much the audience/userbase/etc. here changed in the time I was away so I figured I’d just reintroduce myself since I’d been gone from pretty much all social media for so long.
I don’t have a big enough head to think that people still know who I am/remember me/etc. after such a long time especially since demographics change all the time. That’d be pretty arrogant and self-important of me, I think, to expect any form of recognition.
That being said, it sounds like there will be potentially familiar faces. Always a plus.
Were you Pandean on Wattpad? Anyways, welcome! I know what you mean about forums these days. My feeling is that all the writers are on Substack now, but I’ve been hesitant about creating an account there. I just read their posts without commenting or anything. Doesn’t seem like much of a community space to me, really. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
So you working on anything new? Or got ideas for something?
Yeah, I was, actually. I’m surprised people still remember that account lol. That was six years ago or more.
I’ve actually never heard of Substack. Is it similar to Wattpad or is it more like…publishing focused? I linger on some publishing focused sites for query purposes but like they don’t usually feel very commnity-ish in the way I’d like.
I’m so shit at most social media around these days though. I have no goddamn clue how to use instagram or tiktok or anything.
I am working on a New Thing. I’ve only got like 1k words written of it so far because I’m out of practice and just finished the beat sheet for it but I feel so rusty and out of it I can’t tell if my writing is actually shit or if it’s just ‘this is a rough draft’ shit type of thing. I’m hoping to get some eyes on it somehow. Though to be honest, I’m still not entirely sure how to post stories on here. Even when I was here a few years ago for a lil bit I still had no idea how to do that. I’m gonna need to reaquaint myself with everything. I feel overwhelmed just thinking about it.
No need to feel overwhelmed! There are only a handful of people still active here on Wacky, so there’s no pressure about anything.
As for Substack, actually I had to look it up on Wiki just now to find out just what they do. I only know about them because everyone on YouTube has a Substack it seems. A lot of famous writers are on Substack, evidently. But no, it doesn’t have forums or anything like that as far as I know. It’s more like a blog, and people comment on your posts, and you interact that way. But you can make money with them selling subscriptions. A lot of them are free, though.
Yeah that doesn’t seem like my type of thing. I kinda just want to chat with writers, maybe get a critique partner or two, that kind of thing. Nothing so…professional. I’ll save that for querying and shit yknow? I manly just want writer friends to talk to.
I don’t mind people knowing I’m Pandean. I moreso didn’t want to assume people knew who Pandean was as it’s been a long time and as I mentioned above I think that’d be pretty arrogant of me to do. Last thing I wanted to do was embarass myself by proclaiming I’m Pandean and having people be like ‘the fuck is a Pandean?’, too.