Writing.comReviews 236

If you're looking to improve your writing skills, network with fellow authors, read new & interesting stories & poetry, or just share your work with your peers, this is the place for you.

Getting started takes minutes, and is incredibly easy.

On my first night, I'd uploaded three stories and received six incredibly helpful reviews.

A wonderfully supportive community, an easily navigated site containing a plethora of useful tools; the most constructive environment online for aspiring writers

I can't recommend this site enough!

I happened onto Writing.com so many years ago now and have found it to be my home away from home and go to place. I have made some dear friends here, gotten excellent help when I've asked questions and in general people are friendly, ready to read and review, provide constructive criticism. An excellent place to come to work on your writing! I have not been disappointed.
I have ordered from their shop and loved the items I received. I use their large WDC coffee mug and it is sturdy, large size and exactly what I was looking for, things are packed well, never received anything broken. As well I order their T-shirts which are nice to wear, I use my for lounge and love them! I plan to stay around here for a long, long, time!

I have been a (very pleased) member of Writing.com since November, 2011, and the site just keeps getting better! While I would certainly recommend it to authors who seek helpful, honest reviews of their work, I would also recommend it to readers and to folks who just need some inspiration.

I love to write, but I don't aspire to be a professional author. One thing I love about the WDC community is that your reason for being there is not questioned. I was instantly welcomed into the community, and I have made many lifelong friends. The site owner regularly interacts with the members and works hard to ensure that each member is able to make the most of all the site has to offer.

As an attorney, I tend to shy away from social media. It seems that every time I sign into Facebook, I am bombarded with people seeking free legal advice or getting friend requests from clients. So, I go to Writing.com, where I can read, write, review, and chat, yet nothing is ever expected from me.

Writing.com costs absolutely nothing. I had free account for quite awhile and was very satisfied. I have since switched to a paid account, not because I felt that I had to, but because I wanted to expand my portfolio. Also, I realize the costs to maintain such an elaborate website, and I want to do what I can to support and maintain the site.
I'm very surprised that there are any negative reviews of Writing.com. I would highly recommend it to any writers and/or readers and anyone who wants to be a part of a warm and wonderful community.

I have wanted to improve my writing skills. I checked out some online classes, etc. I came across Writing.com by chance while searching for online resources. It is a very helpful site. You can get good quality, constructive reviews of your work. There are many helpful resources. Many are free. The members made me feel like a part of the community from the start. I would recommend Writing.com for anyone who wants to write, and also for people who just want to read some very good work.

Let me count the ways, if only a few.

I've always felt that Facebook was partly pointless and decidedly dangerous. But social networking with a vital creative interest at heart answers both objections.

This is a much more civil place than Facebook. The Golden Rule applies in ways that we all understand.

This is a genuine place. Figuratively, everything is shipped in an open box.

This is a focused place. Who comes here comes to write.

This is a user-oriented place. Features are features, not revenue re-direct opportunities or bugs respun.

This is a mature place. The different spaces, from e-mail to newsfeeds to forums to portfolios and beyond are integrated tightly and logically.

This is a technically sophisticated place. Pages load cleanly and completely. Mark-up language techniques are fully exploited, while processing language techniques are kept the absolute minimum.

Michelangelo once said something about "hewing away the excess until the object was revealed". (Of course that's a paraphrase. Michelangelo spoke Latin.) In sculpting this website, the StoryMaster shows how to grow marble into an object.

Joining Writing.Com this past year has truly jump-started my writing! I now write daily, enter contests, get and give reviews, receive feedback, increase confidence due to contest successes, network, and much more! As the helpful and inspiring site celebrates its impressive eighteen birthday/anniversary, I created a list of 18 of the many ways it encourages writers and has benefited me:
18) So many writing resources provided
17) Great advice from reviews
16) Opportunities to grow as a writer by reading others' work more frequently
15) Opportunities to grow as a writer by giving detailed reviews of others' work
14) Practice in brevity, which I need desperately, in flash fiction contests
13) Practice in 'showing' more than 'telling' through newsletters and contests such as "The Taboo Words Contest"
12) Connecting with other retired teachers who are also using their additional available time to pursue their writing interests
11) Newsletters (and archives) related to Short Stories
10) Newsletters (and archives) related to Mystery writing
9) WdC makes an exerted effort to reach out to "Newbies"... this has made a big difference in my first year here
8) I have been motivated to try different genres (and even got a first place in one contest after this risk-taking!)
7) Builds confidence
6) Gets otherwise isolated writers out of their vacuum
5) SO many opportunities in so many contests!
4) Newsletters (and archives) related to Poetry
3) Encourages us all to thank others, show appreciation, award and highlight great works, and to pass on that encouragement
2) WDC provides links to other resources such as Writer's Digest, outside contests, publishing, tips, and much more!
1) Inspires me, finally, to write every day!