Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://zedas.fr/
Garbage Collector is the personal blog of a French writer, tinkerer, and self-described coffee addict who covers book reviews, science fiction readings, and technical tutorials on topics like Python and Plex. The mix of literary content and geeky how-tos makes it a charming niche space, with posts in both French and English and a focus on authors own published books.
https://forkingmad.blog/bear-blog-questions-challenge
Forking Mad+ is a personal blog by a Scotland-based writer who shares thoughts, reflections, and random musings on life, hosted on the minimalist Bear Blog platform. This particular post joins a community blogging challenge about the whys and hows of blogging, with links to dozens of other Bear Blog participants in a warm, interconnected writing community.
https://birdbox.neocities.org/
Bear's personal site 'birdbox' on Neocities features original stories, a cloud gallery, and webcomic recommendations, built out of genuine love for the indie web scene. The site has a charming, self-aware personality and is clearly a growing creative space with sections for personal writing and visual content.
https://racoons-nest.neocities.org/
Roni's personal corner of the web, built as a deliberate escape from corporate social media, collects project updates, reading reflections, personal essays, and photos from everyday adventures. The site champions slow, intentional consumption of media and creative work, with a cookie-free build philosophy and a strong anti-AI stance.
https://iris.eus/
Iris' personal corner of the web is a thoughtful multilingual digital garden featuring blog posts in Spanish and English on topics like loneliness, Buddhism, relationships, and modern life. The site embraces old-web values by deliberately avoiding tracking, cookies, ads, and social sharing buttons, presenting itself as a simple collection of ideas and reflections.
https://mostlytrue.life/
Virgil Eaton's 'Mostly True' is a beautifully written personal narrative blog featuring vivid, literary stories drawn from real life adventures spanning Pennsylvania bar nights, wolf encounters in New Mexico, black cab misadventures in Sichuan, and life after a wheelchair-changing injury. The writing is warm, specific, and genuinely compelling, reading more like polished creative nonfiction than a typical travel or personal blog.
https://anniemueller.com/
Annie Mueller's personal blog covers everyday reflections, emotional honesty, reading notes, and occasional tech and small-web musings in a warm, conversational tone. With years of archived posts and a guestbook, the site feels like a cozy corner of the indie web where genuine human thought takes center stage.
https://ficring.neocities.org/
The Fanfiction Webring is a curated ring connecting dozens of personal fanfiction archives spanning fandoms from Star Wars and The Witcher to Gundam, Naruto, and obscure book series. Each member site is a hand-crafted neocities archive, making this a wonderful hub for discovering indie fan writing outside of platforms like AO3 or Fanfiction.net.
https://runs.lol/
A personal weblog hosted on weblog.lol where the author shares posts, photos, and musings collected from years of blogging across various platforms. The site features an archive, a 'random post' function, and a 'on this day' section that gives it a reflective, diary-like quality.
https://readtheprintedword.org/
Read the Printed Word is a pledge campaign and button resource for people who champion physical books and printed text in the digital age. Visitors can grab one of several embeddable web buttons to display on their own sites, declaring their commitment to reading on paper.