Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://verdemusgo.neocities.org/
Verde musgo is a charming Portuguese-language personal site by a Brazilian creator who describes it as cultivating a small corner of the web away from commercial platforms, built at a snail's pace with care. The site features a book club page, a cat catalog, a gallery, altars, and a colophon, making it a cozy and eclectic little world worth exploring.
https://theleakypen.neocities.org/
Theleakypen's creative archive hosts fan fiction organized by fandom and by vibe, alongside filks and visual fanworks like gifsets and screenshot poetry. A lovingly assembled collection of transformative works still in progress, with new content added regularly.
https://chronosaur.us/
Karen's personal blog and digital journal, chronosaur.us, is a warm throwback to early 2000s online writing culture, featuring weeknotes, random thoughts, and short-form blips away from the noise of social media. The site embraces the indie web spirit with a blogroll, guestbook, and open invitation to connect with other bloggers.
https://winnielim.org/
Winnie Lim's personal site is a deeply reflective space spanning nearly 900,000 words of journal entries, essays, notes, poetry, and curated writing playlists built up over many years. The site is notable for its thoughtful self-directed approach to sharing ideas on learning, relationships, music, and life, organized with an unusually rich tagging and archive system.
https://fray.com/
Fray.com is one of the web's earliest and most celebrated venues for personal storytelling, where real people share true first-person narratives in a richly designed format. A landmark of early web culture, it pioneered the art of combining visual design with long-form personal essays and reader-contributed stories.
https://wilde-at-heart.garden/
Jay L. Colbert's digital garden is a Logseq-powered collection of interconnected notes and essays exploring literature, personal knowledge management, and the philosophy of information. Posts range from deep dives into David Foster Wallace and Infinite Jest to reflections on Zettelkasten workflows, scrapbooking, and how humans relate to knowledge.
https://rarimena.neocities.org/home
Edie's cozy personal site on Neocities features a little bit of everything she loves, including work-in-progress creative projects, reviews, shrines, and a remarkable 2022 reading challenge where she completed 104 books. The site has a warm, handcrafted feel with stamp collections, tea reviews, a scavenger hunt, and a music page, making it a charming corner of the old-web revival scene.
https://thel.wf/
Thel is a small personal blog with a mystical, cosmic-horror-tinged aesthetic, featuring dated chronicles on topics like indie web culture and horror writing. Its poetic welcome message and participation in the Hotline Webring give it a dreamy, old-web community feel.
https://bondiaries.neocities.org/
Bondiaries is a personal Neocities site featuring original characters and arctic explorer themes, with a creator who clearly cares about accessibility and a warm, quirky web presence. The PG-13 rating hint and mention of OCs suggest a creative writing or character-focused corner of the indie web.
https://bwzlbub.neocities.org/
Bwzlbub (also known as cygniius) is a creative personal site featuring original writings, devlogs, and a visual novel demo called 'Hour of the Rat.' The site also hosts a fan shrine for the manga 'Love Bullet' and enthusiastically promotes the webcomic 'Hand Jumper,' with a warm, expressive personality throughout.