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r/writers

429.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 16K upvotes, which works out to 37 per 1,000 members.

37peak upvotes per 1,000 members
429.3Kmembers
16Kbest post
944most comments
102posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

97%
Image 97% Gallery 2% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Meme 75 Sharing 7 Celebration 5 Discussion 3 Question 2 Publishing 2 Feedback requested 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

You're doing fine!

↑ 16K 💬 164 image 2025

The most amazing feeling ever, my book in a book store!

↑ 15.9K 💬 568 image 2025

Me as a writer

↑ 15.6K 💬 209 image 2025

When "show, don't tell" is done poorly

↑ 14.1K 💬 271 image 2025

Ouch

↑ 13.7K 💬 231 image 2026

4 years, 3 rewrites, 57,210 words later. My book is finally finished.

↑ 11.2K 💬 379 image 2025

I feel so called out

↑ 11.1K 💬 213 image 2025

I wonder how I can solve this 😭

↑ 9.7K 💬 106 image 2026

Not so hard to swallow afterall

↑ 9.7K 💬 688 image 2026

My thoughts on AI

↑ 9.6K 💬 944 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/writers, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.