A writing community
with teeth.
We take writing seriously — not ourselves.
For fantasy, romantasy and romance writers who have a story to finish.
You love the story. You're just tired of writing it alone.
You've got a world in your head — complete with a magic system you've revised four times and at least one character you're a little too emotionally attached to. You know this could be a real book.
But nobody in your actual life gets why you've been agonizing over second-act structure. Your friends are supportive in theory. They just can't help you figure out why chapter twelve isn't working.
So you write by yourself. And by yourself, the perfectionism gets loud. You rewrite the opening. Again. You open the doc, stare at it, close it. Repeat. Maybe you tried the other things — the Discord server that went quiet, the critique group where someone rewrote your opening in their voice and called it feedback. (If you know, you know.)
None of it stuck.
You're not lacking talent. You're not lacking ideas. You're lacking a room full of people who'd get unreasonably excited about your enemies-to-lovers subplot, tell you to stop polishing chapter one and just keep writing, and still be there next Monday when you show up again.
What if writing actually felt like this?
You log into a co-writing session on a Tuesday night. Someone's already there. You write for an hour — not because you forced yourself, but because everyone else is writing and it turns out that's contagious. When you close your laptop, you've written more than you have in the last two weeks.
By Thursday, there's a 47-reply thread about whether morally grey villains count as love interests. You have opinions. Strong ones. Somewhere between that and a real conversation about pacing, you notice your draft doesn't feel so heavy anymore.
Your weekly check-in keeps you honest without making you feel guilty. You set a small goal — finish the scene you've been avoiding. The next week, you set another one. You stop rewriting chapter one. You start writing chapter seven. Nobody made you do it. You just kept showing up — and for once, so did everyone else.
Three months from now, you're not the person who "was working on a book." You're the person who's finishing one — with people around you who get it, who watched it happen, and who'll be there when you start editing.
This is the
Feral Writing Society.
A community for fantasy, romantasy and romance writers who want to build momentum, find their people, and finish the book — on their terms.
We built the space we wished existed when we were writing alone. Where showing up matters more than showing off, and the work gets to feel like yours again.
Playful by default. Serious by choice.
What happens inside.
Co-Writing Sessions
Show up, write alongside other people, close your laptop with more words than you started with. Multiple sessions a week so there's always a room open.
Book Club
We don't just read together, we pull the books apart. What made that twist land? Why does this pacing work? How did the author handle three POVs without losing the thread? It's craft analysis disguised as a really good book conversation. Members vote on the picks.
Trope Debates & Social Spaces
Enemies-to-lovers discourse. Magic system arguments. Memes. Rants. The fun stuff that reminds you why you started writing in the first place.
Craft Conversations
For the days when your dialogue sounds wooden and you can't figure out why, or your world-building has a hole you only just noticed. Real writers helping each other with real problems.
Your People In Your Corner
We read each other's chapters. We hype each other's launches. We follow, we review, we show up for each other's work like it matters — because it does.
Writing Challenges & Sprints
Community-wide events where you write alongside people who are genuinely cheering you on and where you get to cheer them on right back.
You're not just joining a community. You're gaining a team that actually gives a damn about your book.
And we're just getting started. As the community grows, so does what we can offer — guest authors and industry experts on craft, publishing, and marketing. Editor and cover artist connections. In-person meetups for members who are local. Tools and resources built around what members actually need.
Let’s finish the damn book.
Does this sound familiar?
“I know the story is good. I just can't seem to finish it.”
“I've rewritten the same line twenty times and I still don't know which version is better. At this point I might just delete the whole paragraph.”
“I just want one person in my life who understands why I've spent three hours naming a fictional tavern.”
“I want honest feedback from people who actually read the genre — and I want to be surrounded by writers who are doing this too.”
“Every writing community I've found is either too intense or completely dead.”
If you read at least two of those and thought “okay, how do you know my life.” Welcome. You're going to fit in just fine.
Why we exist.
I've been writing my first fantasy novel for a year and a half. World-building, plotting, drafting, rewriting — the whole beautiful, maddening process.
And the entire time, I've wanted someone to do it with.
I want to cowork with other writers who are deep in their own drafts. I want to ask someone whether a sentence actually hits or if it's just extra words. I want to admit that I've written my character's jaw tightening five hundred times in twenty-five pages — and then build a master list of alternatives with someone who gets it. I want to talk tropes with people who have opinions.
I want to sit down with a book that destroyed me and figure out how — like, this author made me cry in four pages with zero context, was it the emotional layering? The POV choice? How do I learn to do that?
I want to make friends who understand this gloriously stupid, deeply personal thing you've committed to by deciding to write a book. I want to support other writers going through it too — from first draft to final edit to publishing. And then I want to read your book, rate it, and hype you the hell up!
I couldn't find that place. So I'm building it.
— Alex Oumn
Write messy. Write bold.
Questions you probably have.
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Nope. No curriculum, no modules, no one grading your pages. This is a community of writers showing up for each other and for the work. You'll absolutely grow here, but on your own terms.
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The community is built around fantasy, romantasy, and romance. That's our home base, and it's where most of the conversations, book club picks, and trope discourse will live. But if your work touches those worlds (sci-fi with a romance subplot, literary fiction with fantasy elements, weird genre mashups you can't quite categorize), you'll probably feel right at home.
Ps: If you're writing something along the lines of Ice Planet Barbarians, I AM IN and I want to read it 👀 -
Both. All of it. Whether you've got an idea that won't leave you alone, a messy first draft, or a manuscript you've been revising for a year — you belong here. The only thing that matters is that you're writing and you don't want to do it alone anymore.
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Nope. Some members share chapters and get feedback. Some never post a single word of their manuscript and that's completely fine. You can show up for co-writing sessions, jump into trope debates, lurk in craft conversations, and never share a page. The community works whether you're the person who wants eyes on every chapter or the person who just needs to write in a room where other people are writing too. No pressure.
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Yep. Founding members get in free and stay free, even if we add paid features later. No bait and switch. Pinky swear.
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Because most communities die when nobody shows up. FWS is built around regular co-writing sessions, weekly accountability, and a founder who's actually in the room — not running it from a distance. We're also genre-specific, which means you're not making small talk with strangers about "the writing process." You're talking to people who have strong opinions about your villain's redemption arc. But honestly? The best way to find out is to be one of the first ones here.
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More than okay. Show up to a co-writing session and write in silence. Lurk in the chat for a week before you say a word. There is zero pressure to perform. The community is there when you want it, not when you don't.
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Circle. It's clean, easy to navigate, and built for exactly this kind of community.
Still have questions? DM us anytime on Instagram or email us at info@feralwritingsociety.com
Be part of the founding pack.
As a founding member, you're not just joining early, you're part of the foundation! The first draft of this community is going to be messy and imperfect, just like our books and we wouldn't have it any other way.
We have officially launched! 🎉