About Danwa

It's quite simple. Danwa is intended to be a DeviantArt-like community site for writers. Add your stories, your poetry, your articles, your chapters of books that may or may never be finished, and share it with others. You can also be a reader, who'd able to comment, commend and enjoy all content offered with little to no limitation.

The underlying idea is that peer review and peer support are very important, and finding an audience is equally important in shaping your art. Karma will be available to give for both authors and readers, but the Danwa mantra is "If you haven't got anything nice to see, just be silent.", so you'll only be able to give someone props. If you don't like their work, all you can do is comment to let them know why or simply ignore their work from then on.

Of course, authors can simply remove comments they deem 'unwanted', so ignoring is the only thing you can really get away with without reprisal.

Danwa will offer notifications through RSS and email, and if you've got an account (be it as reader or author) you get all updates on tagged items (such as other authors or contests, etc.) on your home site, which will be shown to you every time you visit danwa.net.

We hope to create a strong community dedicated to the art of writing - to help one another reach our highest possible potential - and to have some dang fun while we're doing it.

Interested? Let me know on one of the dev.blog posts and I may even let you in on the alpha phase :)