• Creativity Boards
    Writers do more than write! Share your other creative pastimes with the people of FM.


  • Reading Room
    Writers are readers. What books are you reading and what books have you enjoyed in the past?


  • Advanced Writers Board
    This board is aimed at writers who are past the basics of writing their first novels or stories.

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Where are the missing threads?
It sometimes appears as though threads have disappeared. They're usually still there. Try these four steps to find them again.
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What are the restrictions on the different types of boards:
  1. Public -- Open to everyone to read and post
    2. You must be a member and logged in to Forward Motion (not chat) to post on anything but the public boards.

  2. Protected -- Can be read by everyone, but only members can post.
  3. Restricted -- Only members can read and post.
  4. Private -- Only selected members can read and post. (These are mostly the private critique groups.)

Welcome

Forward Motion is an entirely free site. 

There are no costs for any  of the sections, including classes.

If you enjoy FM and would like to help out, Donations are welcome!

 

This is a site filled with people who are following the treacherous path toward traditional publication. It isn't an easy hike, but there are many members willing to help. This is also a place where you can share both the joys and the insanity of writing with those who understand what you are talking about.

Forward Motion's core purpose is to help writers become professionally published, which includes big publishers, small press and electronic publications with a traditional set up (submissions, chance of rejection, and editing as part of the regular makeup of the company). We welcome serious writing hobbyists as well, but our purpose and goals are geared toward professional careers. We do not allow fanfiction posts and we don't promote self-publishing.

 

(This does not, however, mean that members don't write fanfiction or occasionally self-publish.  The site itself has a narrow focus, but many of our members do not.)

Belonging to Forward Motion is free, and includes everything you find on the site, from critique circles to classes. Forward Motion has undergone numerous changes through the years, but the site remains true to its purpose of 'writers helping writers.

Forward Motion is a large site. We recommend that you start out with just a couple boards -- things like Newcomers, the Main Board, perhaps Roving Crits and one of the genre boards. Wander around and find what interests you. If a board seems abandoned, post and see if others join in. Sometimes, that's all it takes to draw people back!

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