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Asking general questions about writing is useless if the lessons learned aren't put into practice. 

I agree that we need a section for manuscripts. Talking about writing in a hypothetical sense is... talking about writing in a hypothetical sense. Any community of writers that won't critique each others' works will only be so useful. 

We definitely need an easily-understood name for these posts. "Words"? "Stories"? "Pages"? 

### Category Structure

A category for posts that are excerpts from works should be set up in a way that search engines can't see it, so that writers aren't "publishing" in any way. This would make it more like emailing chapters to beta readers than anything else. 

I'd also suggest that posts have an expiration date - think Snapchat but for weeks or months - after which the post is deleted. 

### Targeted Critiques

Asking specific questions about the work will generally get you more useful feedback, and faster. (I'm more likely to answer such a request myself.) 

### Bringing the Eyeballs to the Text

Posting a bit of text for a critique is useless if nobody sees it. If this is a registered-users-only section, it also makes sense to tie this into reputation. We'd need to discuss how this works.