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 the story is there. You just have to actually finish the thing.
But nobody in your actual life gets why you've been agonizing over second-act structure. Your friends are supportive, but they can’t help you figure out why chapter twelve suddenly stopped working.
Writing alone also makes it very easy to get stuck in your own head. You rewrite the opening again. You spend forty minutes fixing one paragraph instead of writing the next scene. You open the doc, stare at it, close it, and tell yourself you’ll try again tomorrow.
Maybe you’ve tried finding writing friends before. You joined the Discord that slowly went quiet, or the critique group where somebody rewrote your opening in their own voice and called it feedback. (If you know, you know.)
What you actually want is a group of writers who will get unreasonably excited about your enemies-to-lovers subplot, tell you to stop messing with chapter one and keep writing, and still be there next week when you show up again.
Writing is better with company.
You drop into a co-writing session with the scene you’ve been avoiding and leave an hour later having actually written it. Later, someone asks which fictional red flags we are all apparently willing to overlook, and the conversation gets out of hand.
Some weeks, you need someone to look at a chapter that’s driving you insane. Other weeks, you need a little accountability so you stop rewriting chapter one and get on with chapter seven. And sometimes, you just need to open your laptop in a room where everyone else is writing too.
You keep showing up, the draft keeps moving, and somewhere along the way, you end up with writing friends who know your characters, remember what you were stuck on last week, and are genuinely excited when you finally figure it out.
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, you can ask for help when you’re stuck, and nobody thinks it’s weird that you’ve spent three hours naming a fictional tavern.
Playful by default. Serious by choice.
What happens inside.
Co-Writing Sessions
Show up, bring whatever you’re working on, and write alongside other people for a while. We run multiple sessions each week, so there are plenty of chances to get some words down together.
Guest Speakers
Writing the book is hard enough without also becoming an expert in everything that comes after it. So we bring in authors, editors, cover artists, developers, marketers, PR professionals, and other business experts, and let you ask them whatever you want to know
Trope Debates & Social Spaces
Enemies-to-lovers discourse. Fictional red flags. Magic system arguments. Memes, rants, recommendations, and all the other things you desperately want to discuss with people who actually care.
Craft Conversations
For the days when your dialogue sounds weird, your pacing feels off, or you’ve discovered a world-building hole big enough to swallow the entire plot. Ask questions, talk it through, and get another writer’s perspective.
Your People In Your Corner
Share chapters. Ask for beta readers. Celebrate a launch. Find someone to swap feedback with. We show up for each other’s work, from the messy first draft all the way through publishing.
Writing Challenges & Sprints
Sometimes you need a goal, a deadline, and a bunch of other writers doing it with you. Our community challenges and writing sprints give you a reason to keep moving and people to celebrate with when you do.
And we’re still building. As FWS grows, we’ll keep adding things that are genuinely useful to writers, resources, workshops, in-person meetups, whatever actually helps. Basically, if it makes writing better, easier, or more fun to do together, we want to make room for it here.
Testimonials
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 people to do it with.
I want to co-write 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, 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 the hell the author did it. Like, you made me cry in four pages with zero context. Was it the emotional layering? The POV choice? How do I learn to do that?
Mostly, I want writing friends who understand this slightly ridiculous, deeply personal thing we've committed to by deciding to write books. I want to support other writers 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 built it.
— Alex
Membership Options
Your membership includes co-writing sessions, craft conversations, writing challenges and sprints, feedback and beta reader connections, guest workshops, and plenty of room to talk about the whole ridiculous process of writing a book.
Choose the payment option that works best for you. Every option starts with a 7-day free trial!
Monthly Membership
7-day free trial
Full access to every session, space, and event
Cancel anytime
20 USD / Month
Quarterly Membership
7-day free trial
Full access to every session, space, and event
Cancel anytime
Save 10% quarterly
54 USD / Quarter
Annual Membership
7-day free trial
Full access to every session, space, and event
Cancel anytime
Save 25% annually
180 USD / Year
We take writing seriously.
Not ourselves.
Questions you probably have.
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Nope. No curriculum, no modules, no one grading your pages. It's a room full of writers who show up to write together, talk craft, ask for help when a scene refuses to cooperate, and cheer each other through the whole ridiculous, brilliant process of writing a book.
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The community is built around fantasy, romantasy, and romance. That's where most of the conversations, book club picks, and trope discourse live, and it's the world we're all a little obsessed with together.
But if your work just overlaps with those genres, whether that's sci-fi with a romance subplot, literary fiction with fantasy running underneath, or some genre mashup you can't quite name, you'll fit right in.
PS: if you're writing something along the lines of Ice Planet Barbarians, I AM IN and I want to read it 👀
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We’ve got writers at every single stage!
Someone with just an idea, a messy first draft, a full manuscript they've been revising for years, or a few books already published and out in the world. You just need a story you're working on and a want for some company while you write it!
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Nope. Some members share chapters and ask for feedback. Others never post a single word of their manuscript, and that's completely fine.
You can come to co-writing sessions, join conversations, talk craft, and get to know other writers without ever sharing a page. No pressure. 😄
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All kinds! We bring in people who know the parts of writing and publishing the rest of us are busy Googling.
That includes authors, editors, cover artists, developers, marketing and PR pros, and other people who can help with everything from self-editing and querying to author websites, social media, finding the right editor, and actually getting your book in front of readers.
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Because running FWS properly takes a lot of time. There are co-writing sessions, guest speakers, events, challenges, community moderation, and me actually being in here every week rather than setting it up and disappearing into the internet.
Charging for membership means I can keep putting time into FWS, keep booking interesting people, and keep making sure there’s actually a reason to come back. It also means I can pay real people to help run it. I want the money that comes into FWS to go back out to moderators, assistants, speakers, editors, artists, and other humans doing creative work, because I’d rather help support the people making this whole ecosystem possible.
You’re not paying for a pile of content you could Google yourself. You’re paying for an active community of writers and the people who help keep it active.
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Nope! Everyone gets the same membership and full access to FWS.
The only difference is how often you pay. Monthly is $20, quarterly is $54 every three months, and annual is $180 for the year. You save a little by paying further ahead!
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There is! You get 7 days to come hang out, join a co-writing session, poke around the community, and figure out if these are your people before you pay anything.
If it turns out FWS isn’t your thing, just cancel before the trial ends and you won’t be charged. No pressure. I’d much rather you find out whether you actually like it in here first.
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Of course. You can cancel right from your account whenever you want, with no sad little “are you sure you want to leave?” song and dance on the way out. lol. I don’t believe in bothering people.
Also life gets busy, sometimes the timing stops working, and that’s completely fine. If you want to come back you can come back anytime!
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Please don’t quietly decide FWS isn’t for you just because money is tight. Email me at hello@feralwritingsociety.com and we’ll see what we can work out!
You don’t need to send me your life story or prove anything. Just tell me you’d like to join and the regular membership isn’t workable for you right now.
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Fair question! FWS is built around things that give us a reason to actually keep coming back: regular co-writing sessions, masterclasses, book club, writing challenges, craft conversations, and plenty of opportunities to get to know each other.
I'm also in there with you! I'm writing my own book, coming to sessions, joining conversations, and building this as a community I genuinely want to be part of too.
Will that guarantee we're all still arguing about fictional people ten years from now? I can't promise that. But I'm certainly going to try. 😉
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Absolutely. Come to a co-writing session and write in silence. Lurk for a while before you say anything. Join the conversations you actually want to join.
You don't have to be the loudest person in the room to belong!
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Circle. It's clean, easy to find your way around, and it keeps everything in one place instead of vanishing into the ABSOLUTE DEPTHS of a Discord server.
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Maybe! We’re always looking for people who have something genuinely useful to teach writers, whether that’s about craft, editing, publishing, marketing, websites, design, or the business side of being an author.
If you think you’d be a good fit, email me at hello@feralwritingsociety.com with a little about you and what you’d like to talk about. I’ll take a look and let you know if it feels like a good match for the community.
Still have questions? DM us anytime on Instagram or email us at hello@feralwritingsociety.com
Be part of the pack.
