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r/writing

3.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.4K upvotes, which works out to 1 per 1,000 members.

1peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.4Mmembers
2.4Kbest post
430most comments
300posts 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.

53% 47%
Text 53% Question 47%

The topics it labels

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

Discussion 176 Advice 60 Beginner Question 30 Other 11 Resource 4 Meta 1 Call for Subs 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Writing tip: how to trick people into thinking you did a ton of world building.

↑ 2.4K 💬 249 text 2026

The thing that improved my writing most wasn't feedback on my writing. It was reading better writers slowly.

↑ 1.6K 💬 132 text 2026

Things that turn beginning writers into advanced writers.

↑ 1.2K 💬 127 text 2026

Three Years Ago, I Posted Here For Advice. The Book Is Now Published.

↑ 832 💬 67 text 2026

Besides "read more," what actually helped you become a better writer?

↑ 797 💬 430 question 2026

Do you also have an issue with your characters constantly "looking"?

↑ 687 💬 128 question 2026

Why do some terribly written stories get published, while so many good authors are rejected?

↑ 622 💬 350 question 2026

"I draw the line at harming animals."

↑ 590 💬 232 text 2026

Best closing line in a book?

↑ 570 💬 321 question 2026

Reading Comprehension Hell

↑ 557 💬 200 text 2026

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/writing, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.