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r/writing vs r/Screenwriting

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Writing craft room vs screenwriting craft room

r/writing’s public description is discussions about the writing craft. r/Screenwriting describes a community from emerging to professional writers teaching and sharing screenwriting for film and television.

In our directory, writing is larger (about 3.4M, rank #300) than Screenwriting (about 1.8M, rank #610). Activity samples show Screenwriting posting somewhat more often (~23 posts/day vs ~15). Both samples are essentially all text. writing’s sample flairs include discussion, advice and beginner question; Screenwriting’s sample uses need-advice, feedback, craft-question and script-request flairs.

Rule titles: writing limits posting work and self-promotion and wants thoughtful posts useful to a broad writer audience; Screenwriting is stricter on format—formatted scripts, dedicated weekly threads for loglines/ideas, and bans cattle-call submissions and unapproved promo.

  • Choose r/writing for prose and general craft discussion under its thoughtful-post rules.
  • Choose r/Screenwriting for film/TV script craft, feedback and logline threads under its format rules.
  • Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut; writing-vs-writingprompts is a separate curated page.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/writing

Writing

Discussions about the writing craft.

Members
3.4M
7-day growth
+2K
Posts/day
15.3
Directory rank
#300
Created
Jan 25, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Writing

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Posting Work
  • Self-Promotion
  • Posts should be thoughtful and useful to a broad community of writers
  • Submission Calls Requirements/AMAs
  • Civility
  • Call-out threads and genre/literary-bashing

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About this community: r/writing (#300, about 3.4 million) discusses the writing craft—not a free dump for unsolicited manuscripts without following posting rules.

r/Screenwriting

Screenwriting

Join our community of over 1,700,000 Screenwriters! From emerging to professional writers, we come together to teach, learn, and share everything about screenwriting for film and television. Please view our rules and wi…

Members
1.8M
7-day growth
+633
Posts/day
22.9
Directory rank
#610
Created
Mar 11, 2009
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Writing

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Do not personally attack community members; respect privacy, be encouraging, use your manners.
  • Questions must demonstrate prior effort/research
  • No off-topic posts, socks, trolls, shitposts, ban evasion, spam, or film/TV critiques
  • Don't post personal blogs, personal websites, or unapproved self-promotion.
  • No Contest, Coverage, Service, Consulting or Paid Product Advertising | No Market Research
  • No Script Submission Cattle Calls, Commissions or Homework Requests
  • Complaints About Paid Feedback Must Include Script and Evaluations
  • Formatted Scripts Only |Perms Enabled| Observe Page Minimums | No Personal Films Posted w/o Script
  • Observe Dedicated Weekly Threads for Loglines, Ideas, Premises, Script Sharing, Etc
  • Provide Descriptive/Informative Titles for Posts & Use Flairs
  • No Plagiarism or AI Chatter. No Sharing of Confidential Material or Sale of Copyrighted Material
  • Use Report and Modmail to Report Post Violations or Misconduct

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About this community: r/Screenwriting (#610, about 1.8 million) is join our community of over 1,700,000 Screenwriters! From emerging to professional writers, we come together to teach, learn, and share everything about screenwriting for film and television.. Collected rules cover Do not personally attack community members; respect privacy, be encouraging, use your manners; Questions must demonstrate prior effort/research; No off-topic po…

Supported differences

Aspectr/writingr/Screenwriting
Public focus (from each community’s public description) Discussions about the writing craft. Join our community of over 1,700,000 Screenwriters! From emerging to professional writers, we come together to teach, learn, and share everything about screenwriting for film and television. Please view our rules and wi…
Size
r/writing is larger in our directory (about 1.9×).
 3.4M members 1.8M members
Posting activity (our sample) 15.3/day 22.9/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 100% text posts 100%
Allowed submission type (meta) Text or links Text posts
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Posting Work; Self-Promotion; Posts should be thoughtful and useful to a broad community of writers; Submission Calls Requirements/AMAs; Civility Do not personally attack community members; respect privacy, be encouraging, use your manners.; Questions must demonstrate prior effort/research; No off-topic posts, socks, trolls, shitposts, ban evasion, spam, or film/TV critiques; Don't post personal blogs, personal websites, or unapproved self-promotion.; No Contest, Coverage, Service, Consulting or Paid Product Advertising | No Market Research

What they share

  • Shared SubMouse topics: Writing

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

writing short titles include: posting work; self-promotion; posts should be thoughtful and useful to a broad community of writers; submission calls/AMAs; civility; call-out threads and genre/literary-bashing.

Screenwriting: do not personally attack members; questions must show prior effort; no off-topic/socks/trolls/spam or film/TV critiques as posts; no personal blogs or unapproved self-promotion; no contest/coverage/paid-product advertising; no script-submission cattle calls; formatted scripts only with permissions; observe weekly threads for loglines/ideas/script sharing; descriptive titles and flairs.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Short titles only. Related curated page: writing-vs-writingprompts.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: