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r/writing is for discussions about the writing craft. r/WritingPrompts invites writers to flex on a prompt—write a short story or poem from a title prompt and exchange comments.
WritingPrompts is the larger Top-cut room (about 18.9M, rank #44) against writing (about 3.4M, rank #300). Both samples are essentially all text; WritingPrompts is busier in our window (roughly 54 vs 15 posts per day). Each lists the other as related.
Collected short rule titles separate workshop talk from prompt play. writing covers posting work, self-promotion, thoughtful posts useful to writers, and civility. WritingPrompts requires good-faith new stories/poems (no AI), tagged submissions, prompt-in-title norms, and keeps the space about writing rather than competing or making money. Talk process and craft in writing; answer a prompt with a fresh piece in WritingPrompts.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-06.
Discussions about the writing craft.
Sample mix: text posts 100%
Topics: Writing
Rule titles (short names we collected)
Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave comment…
Sample mix: text posts 100%
Topics: Writing
Rule titles (short names we collected)
| Aspect | r/writing | r/WritingPrompts |
|---|---|---|
| Public focus (from each community’s public description) | Discussions about the writing craft. | Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave comment… |
| Size r/WritingPrompts is larger in our directory (about 5.5×). |
3.4M members | 18.9M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) | 15.3/day | 53.7/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 | Prompt responses must be good-faith attempts at new stories/poems (No AI); Be civil in discussion, feedback, and critiques; All submissions must be tagged; No recent reposts, even if changing small details; Prompt in title, avoid commissions/games |
writing: Posting Work; Self-Promotion; posts should be thoughtful and useful to writers; civility; limits on call-out threads and genre-bashing. WritingPrompts: prompt responses must be good-faith new stories/poems (No AI); be civil in feedback; all submissions tagged; no recent reposts; prompt in title; keep it about writing, not competing/making money.
Public descriptions, member counts and related links from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples collected for both. Short titles only.
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.