r/WritingHub • u/Cheap-Soup-999 • 3h ago
Critique Partners & Writing Groups hello looking for fellow cosmic horror newbie writer https://discord.gg/MRu6AmxeW
Susanna Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert W. Chambers, M. John Harrison, Gene Wolfe, or Vernor Vinge,
are my main inspo. Anyone who knows these is welcome to https://discord.gg/MRu6AmxeW
Genre/s:
Dark Fantasy • Cosmic Horror • Mythic Fantasy • Weird Fiction
Goals / Expectations / Commitment:
Hi! I'm a beginner writer looking for other new or amateur writers (ages 22–30) who enjoy brainstorming, exchanging critiques, and keeping each other motivated. I am a UK-based newbie writer who wants others to partner up with and encourage each other on their writing journey.
Looking for cosmic horror fans and people who are
Writing / Experience Level:
Newbie / Amateur. I'm still early in my writing journey and looking to learn alongside other beginners.
Meeting Place:
Discord: https://discord.gg/MRu6AmxeW
Max Size:
Small group (around 5–10 people).
Looking for a partner who is doing a unique setting. My world is a newbie amateur writer with an obsession with writing dark fantasy cosmic horror inspired by Irish and Welsh mythology, especially the Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Mabinogi, and the Immrama. The premise is that Doggerland never truly sank. The main characters are from the blessed tribe of the gods, Lyoness, the British Atlantis, which is now a reimagining of the lands of the Tuatha Dé Danann or the other world. Got some inspo from a PhD&D video about the Dagda building the other world .With the other world being a creation of the gods.
And some ideas based on the reincarnation aspect in my setting: magic comes from memory . The tuath are a race of displaced people who have lost their homeland in my setting and are no longer the godlike people they once were. Now, without the name of their nation, they cannot cast magic, and worse, when they die, their name is gone or erased. unable to be read or spoken by anyone.their homeland, language, and identity.
Is gone. Forced into a state of perpetual diaspora for angering a godlike force.500 years after the diaspora, a soldier turned archeologist, Ainsel, and her crew are going to find the root of the curse and right it for glory and to give their people a chance at a future