[Jamza1986]

I think SFF is great, and over the last five years I've intermittently participated on the forums ect. I was wondering though if anyone knew of a bigger community of writers, because it always seems that the writing forum here revolves around critique of stories. Is there somewhere that writers can talk more in detail about ideas and get better acquainted?

[Hereford Eye]

Well, the critiquing is actually a recent development. There was a time when this thread was all about writing and the critiquing was done elsewhere. So, now, if you cannot learn from or do not wish to learn from the critique of other people's work, lay out the questions or the ideas you have in mind. Folk will join in with lots and lots of opinions.

[Physics Knight]

Yes, by all means make posts about writing subjects you are interested in!

One forum I've lurked on is absolutewrite.com, and that was mostly their agents section. Before I queried an agent I'd check out their agents section and read the discussions on the agent I was interested in: what their response was like, how fast they were, if they were badlisted &c . I avoided some quacks that way.

[Jamza1986]

I remember when there was little critiquing. I always appreciate the input of other writers, but I was actually looking more for a community where we writers could just chat about what we do ect. I may check out absolutewrite, so thanks for that, I has just often seemed that this forum is a little quiet and doesn't have a huge number of members. I like it, but I'd like it more if it was more active.

[Shane]

I've wondered this myself.

The writing around here is more centered around critique and advice, rather than just discussion of technique and writing itself. Which isn't to say that either of those things are bad, but my thing isn't really trying to give advice to people who can't even be troubled to capitalize their "I's" where appropriate, let alone type a coherant and interesting story. Advice is great, but 90% of the time (at least around here) it's irrelevant to my purposes and can be outright ignored. It doesn't help that the Writing forum around here gets less than a dozen posts a day.

That said, I haven't found any forums that are better. And the community here is mostly great. And it seems like there are people always around watching and waiting, eager to say something useful... but most of the time it's just Q&A's and critiquing.

[Arash]

Check out writing.com

[kater]

As HE said the critiquing is a recent development and when you consider the number of people who post in our community the % who ask for critique is small. I understand how it can be a little off-putting but please don't think that you have to restrict yourself in any way, this is a Writing section - meaning on all aspects of writing :) Throw it up, I'm sure there's lots of people wanting to talk writing on here.

[Banger]

I post in most of the threads here except for the critiquing ones :D