Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://cyrano.house/
Cyrano's House is a creative writing site featuring fan fiction with content warnings for violence, fictional taboo, and RPF, evoking the spirit of early 2000s FanFiction.net. The site is adults-only and covers a range of imaginative, unconventional stories with a charmingly hand-crafted personal aesthetic.
https://stormthecastle.com/mainpages/for_writers/using-invented-language-in-your-novel.htm
Storm the Castle's writing section, run by Will of Kalif Publishing, offers practical guidance for authors creating invented languages and world-building elements for science fiction and fantasy novels. The page covers techniques for crafting believable fictional words and languages while keeping stories market-ready, with recommended books for writers included.
https://matociquala.livejournal.com/
The LiveJournal blog of Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author writing under the handle matociquala, featuring 8,835 entries accumulated over years of active posting. The sidebar links to her official website, fiction journal, and markets like Analog, Asimov's, and Tor.com, making it a hub for fans of her work and the broader speculative fiction community.
https://overgrown-garden.neocities.org/
Overgrown Garden is a lovingly tended personal site by cd_rom_woahh featuring sections on linguistics, music, movies, poems, shrines, and curated links, all wrapped in a whimsical garden aesthetic with seasonal themes and cursor sparkles. The mix of poetry, media lists, and personal writing gives the site a distinctly literary and introspective character that sets it apart from typical hobby pages.
https://web-surfer.neocities.org/
The Wondrous Web-Surfer is an elaborate worldbuilding project set in a dystopian far-future called Earth-256-B, where the 2990s feel like a corrupted echo of the 1990s complete with familiar social ills dressed up in false optimism. Created around original characters like Virgil Voltspun and the city of Nouvelle-Yorke, the site invites visitors to explore a richly imagined paracosm with Marvel-adjacent influences and a darkly satirical edge.
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://0ur4ng3lc4lls.neocities.org/
A dedicated home for 'Our Angel', an original dark fantasy and psychological horror story by Tumblr creator Milo, following Seraphina Melrose, a powerful angelic figure in the religiously oppressive kingdom of Maldeus. The project blends whump genre storytelling, cult and religious trauma themes, and body horror into a richly developed original fiction world with characters, lore pages, and extras.
https://cranebaby.nekoweb.org/
Cranebaby's personal creative hub hosts poetry, writing, zines, artwork, photography, and an online journal all in one place. Built as a "landmine" of creative output, the site also features film tracking, shrines, and a recommendations page, making it a rich and eclectic corner of the indie web.
https://scifipony.com/
Pebble's Fandom Space is a personal fan hub featuring original fanfiction and dedicated shrines to beloved fandoms. The site offers a cozy old-web aesthetic with sections for creative writing, character or series shrines, and a site map to navigate the collection.
https://shadycharacters.co.uk/
Keith Houston's Shady Characters is a deep dive into the secret histories of punctuation marks, emoji, and the written word, blending meticulous research with entertaining prose. The site accompanies Houston's acclaimed books on the subject and features ongoing essays covering everything from obscure typographic symbols to the cultural evolution of emoji.