I don't mean writer's circles, or "auditioning sites", although some of these have forums tacked on as a by the by. Usually places to talk about the beardy philosophy of writing are moribund places as many writers are just not joiners.
Does anyone know of a healthy writer's community that talks about the imponderables of writing and does polls etc. I am particularly interested in one for writers of genre fiction and ones with a particular bent towards storytelling and experimentation in that field but I'm sure that writers.se's lit fic authors and technical writers could benefit from knowing if there are communities for them too.
(Incidentally I know also about Nanowrimo. I find many of the healthy discussion among Nano participants is all about getting that 50k done, not my issue I can get stuff done, I mean something like experimental role playing forum "The Forge" but for storytellers.)
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NaNoWriMo forums are pretty good. They're generally fairly slow during the off-season though. Their IRC chatroom, however, is always busy year round. I hang out there quite often an it's a great place to chat with other writers.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/forum
Writer's Digest forums are also supposedly fairly good, but I've never tried them.
http://forum.writersdigest.com/category-view.asp
There are tons of good groups for writers on Goodreads. They're a generic one I'd recommned - On Fiction Writing. There are also groups for every genre and a lot of them have specific areas for writers to talk with each other and interact with readers.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/13591.On_Fiction_Writing
The Young Writer's Society is also a pretty good place for 21 and under. There are places to chat and discuss with other writers and there are also places to post poetry/shorts/novels for critique and feedback.
http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/
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