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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.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.
Discussions about the writing craft.
Sample mix: text posts 100%
Topics: Writing
Rule titles (short names we collected)
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…
Sample mix: text posts 100%
Topics: Writing
Rule titles (short names we collected)
| Aspect | r/writing | r/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 |
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.
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.