About howdoyouspell.cool
Starting a blog at howdoyouspell.cool is simple, all you have to do is visit howdoyouspell.cool and it will prompt you to sign up — no email required. Please take a moment to read our privacy standards and review the sections below before joining.
ETHOS
howdoyouspell.cool is an open community of new-wave writers who value privacy, autonomy, and creative writing – and, most importantly, we reject corporate interests and monetary incentives. We aim to be a no-pressure, polite community of writers from all walks of life, away from the ten-thousand-word user agreements of corporate-controlled platforms. If you consider yourself even the most amateur of writers, you’re welcome here. Too often, writers leave their work languishing in a folder somewhere – this community aims to change that by providing a safe space for expression without fear of ridicule or some big-word conglomerate stealing your words to power a fake-sentient SQL table.
(yes, the logo is Robert Smith from The Cure looking all moody and cool, surrounded by some of the fonts used on The Cure album covers. the image itself is taken from a patch i had in high school; i considered it my “coolest” looking patch, and now i consider it the “coolest” looking logo i could come up with. Robert Smith patch guides my hand. -forrest, admin)
CORE TENETS
Our core tenets include: cool is subjective, endless introspection, fearless expression, money corrupts without exception, and the golden rule is the closest you’re going to get to perfection.
Anything goes: poetry, prose, music reviews, essays, movie critiques, research papers, video game analysis, lyrics, entire novels, short stories, play scripts – I could keep going, but I think you get the point. We only ask that you treat your blog as a creative effort, not a microblog – and that, on top of the golden rule, you try to follow the community guidelines below.
COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
1. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
2. This Is Not Your Advertising Platform
3. This Is Not a Microblog
4. Original Material Only
5. NSFW Should Be Tagged as Such
For a full breakdown of each rule, see our community guidelines page.
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