


NaNoWriMo ( /r/nanowrimo): A community dedicated to support and advice during National Novel Writing Month.While this group is helpful and has a decent amount of subscribers, it's not terribly active.

WritersGroup ( /r/writersgroup): Visit this community for constructive and thoughtful peer-review of your written work.We deconstruct writing to construct better writers." Remember when I said that Reddit isn't for the faint of heart? That's especially accurate in this writing critique subreddit. DestructiveReaders ( /r/destructivereaders): "DestructiveReaders isn't about writers being nice to writers it's about readers being honest with writers.The first is the largest subreddit and community dedicated to writing, but the latter is more typically open to critiques and has more flexible rules around what you're allowed to post. Reddit for Writers: 44 Writing Subreddits to Explore Generalīelow are the two general writing subreddits-the differences lie in the size, personality, and attitudes you'll encounter in each one. And I mean everything, including one dedicated entirely to photos of bread stapled to trees, but also including several excellent writing subreddits that provide critiques, craft and publishing advice, ideas and prompts, and more. The most common subreddits include /r/aww for cute critters, /r/pics for neat photos, and /r/askreddit for posing social questions to the community-but really, there's one for everything. Part anonymous message board platform, part social news and media aggregator, Reddit has more than 520 million regular monthly visitors and more than 1.2 million active subreddits, or categorized message boards that you can subscribe to in order to make popular submissions appear on your "front page" when you visit or the mobile app. But "the front page of the internet" is also a wealth of information, knowledge, resources, inspiration and so much more. To the uninitiated, Reddit can seem like the Wild West of the web-and that's not entirely inaccurate. In the May/June 2019 issue of Writer's Digest, you'll find our annual roundup of the 101 Best Websites for Writers! This year's collection is supplemented by online addendums, including this guide to navigating Reddit's offerings for writers, along with a set of mobile apps for writers.
