u/AdrenalineAnxiety

Writer's Room on Discord - Active and engaged Discord community - doing Nanowrimo in June!

  • Genre/s: All but fantasy is the most common
  • Goals/expectations/commitment: Active on Discord, try to give critique as well as receive
  • Writing/experience level: All
  • Meeting place: Discord
  • [Writing groups only] Max size: Looking to add +20 people.

Writer's Room is a Discord community for writers, readers and artists. The community is about 150 members with a core active of 50 so it still feels intimate and you can get to know people. We have writers from brand new folks who've only just started writing to published authors already.

  • 18+ community with average age in 30s.
  • Massive Nanowrimo competition for June coming up with 30 people working on writing a novel in a month!
  • Regular competitions including flash fiction and art comps with real prizes
  • House wars with our own bot where you can earn points for your house making for lots of fun interactions
  • Job board where you can post chapters for feedback/critique
  • Live workshops (also posted on YouTube) where you can spend 20-40 minutes with someone talking/teaching about writing
  • Mentor program where less experienced writers can be paired with someone experienced for growth
  • ARC channel where you can post if you have a complete project that needs reviewers or beta readers
  • Artist showcase for posting art, poetry, photography etc.

And most importantly we have a very active and engaged core who chat and get to know each other all day - supporting each other's projects and making real friends. If you want to make friends whilst also working on your creativity then we are the right place to do it!

Most people are writing fiction, with fantasy being a high percentage, but we also have sci-fi, romance, dystopia, thriller, non-fiction, poetry - all are welcome.

Please be aware that the entire server is listed as 18+ in order to ensure only adults join. We do have an optional 18+ channel, however most of the content on the server is SFW.

To join please direct message me with your Discord name or leave a comment on the thread and I'll message you a link.

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u/AdrenalineAnxiety — 5 hours ago

A New Immersive Writing Challenge on Discord this June

A month-long gamified writing event blending storytelling, competition, worldbuilding, and community launches inside the WRITER’S ROOM GUILD on https://discord.gg/n3grRem3

The Writing Challenge

June 1, 2026 — This FREE online writing community is entering the fire [Write 15k, 30k, 50k or 85k words in June].

This June, writers from around the world will gather for THE INFERNO GAUNTLET, a 30-day immersive writing challenge hosted by HOUSE DRAGON, a rapidly growing Discord-based writing guild focused on creativity, accountability, storytelling, and community-driven worldbuilding.

Designed as a mythic fantasy-inspired alternative to traditional writing challenges, THE INFERNO GAUNTLET combines novel writing, writing sprints, collaborative events, live competitions, and narrative-driven progression systems into a single large-scale creative experience.

Throughout the month, writers compete in live Arena Events, writing sprint battles, collaborative boss fights, and weekly narrative challenges designed to strengthen their manuscripts while encouraging consistency, creativity, and long-form storytelling discipline.

At the center of the event is the Dragon Chalice, a community-wide point system where every 100 words written contributes to a growing shared reward pool known as Chalice Points. The winning Path at the conclusion of the event claims the Chalice and distributes its rewards among surviving challengers.

This word-count centered, open reporting and narrative competition is geared towards professional and indie writers alike, offering multiple difficulty levels that should fit any life-style. National Novel Writing Month is in November, and the organization that once ran a beloved event is gone, the INFERNO GAUNTLET is here to fill that void. 

Unlike traditional writing competitions, THE INFERNO GAUNTLET emphasizes both productivity and craft development. Weekly events focus on narrative depth, endurance, emotional storytelling, and manuscript expansion while integrating a larger fantasy narrative surrounding the mysterious legacy of House Dragon and the awakening of an ancient beast beneath the Arena.

The event culminates in a community-wide Final Door Event in which participants collectively attempt to defeat the Dragon through a massive guild-wide writing push.

The Writer’s Room has become known for combining fantasy guild aesthetics with real writing accountability systems, offering writers a highly social environment centered around long-form fiction, writing improvement, collaborative storytelling, and creator growth. They host large writing events every quarter and monthly flash fiction competitions monthly in an active and creative community space. 

Writers interested in joining THE INFERNO GAUNTLET can participate through the official HOUSE DRAGON Discord community.

https://discord.gg/n3grRem3

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u/AdrenalineAnxiety — 6 days ago

A New Immersive Writing Challenge on Discord this June

A month-long gamified writing event blending storytelling, competition, worldbuilding, and community launches inside the WRITER’S ROOM GUILD on https://discord.gg/n3grRem3

The Writing Challenge

June 1, 2026 — This FREE online writing community is entering the fire [Write 15k, 30k, 50k or 85k words in June].

This June, writers from around the world will gather for THE INFERNO GAUNTLET, a 30-day immersive writing challenge hosted by HOUSE DRAGON, a rapidly growing Discord-based writing guild focused on creativity, accountability, storytelling, and community-driven worldbuilding.

Designed as a mythic fantasy-inspired alternative to traditional writing challenges, THE INFERNO GAUNTLET combines novel writing, writing sprints, collaborative events, live competitions, and narrative-driven progression systems into a single large-scale creative experience.

Throughout the month, writers compete in live Arena Events, writing sprint battles, collaborative boss fights, and weekly narrative challenges designed to strengthen their manuscripts while encouraging consistency, creativity, and long-form storytelling discipline.

At the center of the event is the Dragon Chalice, a community-wide point system where every 100 words written contributes to a growing shared reward pool known as Chalice Points. The winning Path at the conclusion of the event claims the Chalice and distributes its rewards among surviving challengers.

This word-count centered, open reporting and narrative competition is geared towards professional and indie writers alike, offering multiple difficulty levels that should fit any life-style. National Novel Writing Month is in November, and the organization that once ran a beloved event is gone, the INFERNO GAUNTLET is here to fill that void. 

Unlike traditional writing competitions, THE INFERNO GAUNTLET emphasizes both productivity and craft development. Weekly events focus on narrative depth, endurance, emotional storytelling, and manuscript expansion while integrating a larger fantasy narrative surrounding the mysterious legacy of House Dragon and the awakening of an ancient beast beneath the Arena.

The event culminates in a community-wide Final Door Event in which participants collectively attempt to defeat the Dragon through a massive guild-wide writing push.

The Writer’s Room has become known for combining fantasy guild aesthetics with real writing accountability systems, offering writers a highly social environment centered around long-form fiction, writing improvement, collaborative storytelling, and creator growth. They host large writing events every quarter and monthly flash fiction competitions monthly in an active and creative community space. 

Writers interested in joining THE INFERNO GAUNTLET can participate through the official HOUSE DRAGON Discord community.

https://discord.gg/n3grRem3

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u/AdrenalineAnxiety — 6 days ago

A New Immersive Writing Challenge on Discord this June

  • Genre/s: All but fantasy is the most common
  • Goals/expectations/commitment: Taking part in our "Nanowrimo" event in June which involves writing 15k, 30k, 50k or 85k words - you choose!
  • Writing/experience level: All
  • Meeting place: Discord
  • [Writing groups only] Max size: Looking to add +20 people looking to do the event ideally.

A month-long gamified writing event blending storytelling, competition, worldbuilding, and community launches inside the WRITER’S ROOM GUILD on https://discord.gg/n3grRem3

The Writing Challenge

June 1, 2026 — This FREE online writing community is entering the fire [Write 15k, 30k, 50k or 85k words in June].

This June, writers from around the world will gather for THE INFERNO GAUNTLET, a 30-day immersive writing challenge hosted by HOUSE DRAGON, a rapidly growing Discord-based writing guild focused on creativity, accountability, storytelling, and community-driven worldbuilding.

Designed as a mythic fantasy-inspired alternative to traditional writing challenges, THE INFERNO GAUNTLET combines novel writing, writing sprints, collaborative events, live competitions, and narrative-driven progression systems into a single large-scale creative experience.

Throughout the month, writers compete in live Arena Events, writing sprint battles, collaborative boss fights, and weekly narrative challenges designed to strengthen their manuscripts while encouraging consistency, creativity, and long-form storytelling discipline.

At the center of the event is the Dragon Chalice, a community-wide point system where every 100 words written contributes to a growing shared reward pool known as Chalice Points. The winning Path at the conclusion of the event claims the Chalice and distributes its rewards among surviving challengers.

This word-count centered, open reporting and narrative competition is geared towards professional and indie writers alike, offering multiple difficulty levels that should fit any life-style. National Novel Writing Month is in November, and the organization that once ran a beloved event is gone, the INFERNO GAUNTLET is here to fill that void. 

Unlike traditional writing competitions, THE INFERNO GAUNTLET emphasizes both productivity and craft development. Weekly events focus on narrative depth, endurance, emotional storytelling, and manuscript expansion while integrating a larger fantasy narrative surrounding the mysterious legacy of House Dragon and the awakening of an ancient beast beneath the Arena.

The event culminates in a community-wide Final Door Event in which participants collectively attempt to defeat the Dragon through a massive guild-wide writing push.

The Writer’s Room has become known for combining fantasy guild aesthetics with real writing accountability systems, offering writers a highly social environment centered around long-form fiction, writing improvement, collaborative storytelling, and creator growth. They host large writing events every quarter and monthly flash fiction competitions monthly in an active and creative community space. 

Writers interested in joining THE INFERNO GAUNTLET can participate through the official HOUSE DRAGON Discord community.

https://discord.gg/n3grRem3

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u/AdrenalineAnxiety — 6 days ago

Would anyone be interested in doing a nanowrimo challenge in June on Discord?

I'm part of a discord server that's planning on version of nanowrimo but in June. We're going to have tiers of people who declare their word count, 15k, 30k, 50k or 85k and there will be fun server points and small server based prizes, but also sprints and accountability every day.

We're going to do things like boss battle events where submitting words together decreases the hit points on a boss to defeat it, and we have a custom bot that tracks word count and sprinto as well.

We're trying to find a few more people who might want to join in - just to keep motivated and disciplined but also to have people to chat to whilst writing (it's quite a chatty server but there will be specific channels for each tier as well).

I won't drop a link but DM me or comment if interested.

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u/AdrenalineAnxiety — 10 days ago

Discord community - Writers Room has space for a few more people!

Writer's Room is a Discord community for writers, readers and artists. The community is about 150 members with a core active of 30-35 so it still feels intimate and you can get to know people. We have writers from brand new folks who've only just started writing to published authors already.

  • 18+ community with average age in 30s.
  • Regular competitions including flash fiction and art comps with real prizes - Flash fiction competition starts 1st May which is on the theme of Mother's Day.
  • House wars with our own bot where you can earn points for your house making for lots of fun interactions
  • Job board where you can post chapters for feedback/critique
  • Live workshops (also posted on YouTube) where you can spend 20-40 minutes with someone talking/teaching about writing
  • Mentor program where less experienced writers can be paired with someone experienced for growth
  • ARC channel where you can post if you have a complete project that needs reviewers or beta readers
  • Artist showcase for posting art, poetry, photography etc.

And most importantly we have a very active and engaged core who chat and get to know each other all day - supporting each other's projects and making real friends. If you want to make friends whilst also working on your creativity then we are the right place to do it!

Most people are writing fiction, with fantasy being a high percentage, but we also have sci-fi, romance, dystopia, thriller, non-fiction, poetry - all are welcome.

Please be aware that the entire server is listed as 18+ in order to ensure only adults join. We do have an optional 18+ channel, however most of the content on the server is SFW.

To join please direct message me with your Discord name or leave a comment on the thread and I'll message you a link.

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u/AdrenalineAnxiety — 14 days ago

Writer's Room is a Discord community for writers, readers and artists. The community is about 100 members with a core active of 25-30 so it still feels intimate and you can get to know people. We have writers from brand new folks who've only just started writing to published authors already.

  • 18+ community with average age in 30s.
  • Regular competitions including flash fiction and art comps with real prizes
  • House wars with our own bot where you can earn points for your house making for lots of fun interactions
  • Job board where you can post chapters for feedback/critique
  • Live workshops (also posted on YouTube) where you can spend 20 minutes with someone talking/teaching about writing
  • Mentor program where less experienced writers can be paired with someone experienced for growth
  • ARC channel where you can post if you have a complete project that needs reviewers or beta readers
  • Artist showcase for posting art, poetry, photography etc.

And most importantly we have a very active and engaged core who chat and get to know each other all day - supporting each other's projects and making real friends. If you want to make friends whilst also working on your creativity then we are the right place to do it!

Most people are writing fiction, with fantasy being a high percentage, but we also have sci-fi, romance, dystopia, thriller, non-fiction, poetry - all are welcome.

Please be aware that the entire server is listed as 18+ in order to ensure only adults join. We do have an optional 18+ channel, however most of the content on the server is SFW.

To join please direct message me with your Discord name or leave a comment on the thread and I'll message you a link.

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u/AdrenalineAnxiety — 21 days ago

  • Genre/s: All but fantasy is the most common
  • Goals/expectations/commitment: Active on Discord, try to give critique as well as receive
  • Writing/experience level: All
  • Meeting place: Discord
  • [Writing groups only] Max size: Looking to add +20 people.

Writer's Room is a Discord community for writers, readers and artists. The community is about 150 members with a core active of 30-35 so it still feels intimate and you can get to know people. We have writers from brand new folks who've only just started writing to published authors already.

  • 18+ community with average age in 30s.
  • Regular competitions including flash fiction and art comps with real prizes - Flash fiction competition starts 1st May which is on the theme of Mother's Day.
  • House wars with our own bot where you can earn points for your house making for lots of fun interactions
  • Job board where you can post chapters for feedback/critique
  • Live workshops (also posted on YouTube) where you can spend 20-40 minutes with someone talking/teaching about writing
  • Mentor program where less experienced writers can be paired with someone experienced for growth
  • ARC channel where you can post if you have a complete project that needs reviewers or beta readers
  • Artist showcase for posting art, poetry, photography etc.

And most importantly we have a very active and engaged core who chat and get to know each other all day - supporting each other's projects and making real friends. If you want to make friends whilst also working on your creativity then we are the right place to do it!

Most people are writing fiction, with fantasy being a high percentage, but we also have sci-fi, romance, dystopia, thriller, non-fiction, poetry - all are welcome.

Please be aware that the entire server is listed as 18+ in order to ensure only adults join. We do have an optional 18+ channel, however most of the content on the server is SFW.

To join please direct message me with your Discord name or leave a comment on the thread and I'll message you a link.

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u/AdrenalineAnxiety — 23 days ago