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Hey SE people!

We’ve launched a cool new feature on the forum called groups.

You can find them in the nav bar like so:

Groups are hubs for writers to gather around something they share in common. They include a Facebook-like feed and most of them also include their own forums.

So far there are three types of groups:
1. Word war groups
2. Genre groups
3. Niche groups

Word war groups are the new way we’ll be running word wars. Previously, guilds competed against each other, but those who weren’t in a guild hardly ever competed. This will allow anyone to participate.

Word war groups are only for writers who intend to regularly participate in the monthly word wars.* They’ll be capped off at 15 members max. I’ll try to keep their numbers even so everything is fair.

*(Even if you can only contribute a hundred words each time, we’d love to have you. Even when you’re editing, you can still contribute to the word wars so long as your revisions tend to increase your word count, not decrease it. If your revisions do tend to decrease your word count and the revisions will take more than three months, it would be best if you stepped down from the word war group to make room for someone else. You’ll be welcome to join back in once you have word counts to contribute.)

To join a word war group, sign up here! https://forms.gle/1VPxEsG219Fx5xyk8

Genre groups are hubs for writers of the same genre to talk shop. These are public groups anyone with an account on the forum can join.

We hope the Facebook-like feed feature will encourage more open discussions and sharing.

Niche groups are for writers with common interests other than a shared genre. So far, we have a group for writers over 25 years of age. We also have a group for writers who are geeky about publishing and marketing.

Let me know if you have any questions or if you have a group idea you’d like Story Embers to create.

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Sorry I don’t have everyone’s tag. Hopefully the message will get out to everyone who needs to hear it.