Designated category for Creative Writing and related content
Ranging from writing and discussing novels, to poetry, scripts, comics, article editing, tabletop campaign planning, world creation, etc. There are a wide array of people doing various forms of creative writing on twitch, (Counted 53 channels so far, still working on finding more) and often it's hard to decide between "Creative" "Art" or "Just Chatting". Currently all we have to search for similar content is the "Writing" tag, which some of the broader definitions are hesitant to use, and is also used by people writing computer code, which is honestly a very different type of content despite it's visual similarities.
A category for this would seriously help us to find content and be found by the wider community of storytelling or wordsmithing fans that use twitch, as well as make it easier for twitches algorithm to identify what we watch. (I am often recommended visual art streams because I watch a lot of writers that use the art category, but never recommended any writing channels, and others I have spoken to experience the same)
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Magzimillion commented
As someone who does both writing and gaming streams, I'd like to have the option to direct my audience on what's going on in our community more effectively. :)
Make this a reality! You already have other really great cateogories, so why not add this one? -
TheLadyWrites commented
It would be an incredible assent for all of us
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taiwantim commented
Yes, yes, yes. Please make this happen.
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amber6snow commented
This is a necessity, writing is such a fun thing to do together and to share with others - which is the whole reason I started streaming my writing. But due to the lack of a category or tags and community I stopped because I thought that no one else wanted to see writing streamed. Little did I know all of you exist and that's because it didn't have a catagory. So please Twitch add this, it'll be such an amazing addition and will make it so much easier for other writers to find each other!
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phoenixbmeadows commented
plsss, we so need a creative writing category, and some more tags/categories such as world building and table top planning, or just a table top rpg tag in general since we only have the category, and it would be a really good sub tag for creative writing
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Phantascene commented
Just a reminder: Twitch says in their explanation for how to get a new category approved to share the link to this with everyone you can. So post it on Twitter or other social media platforms as appropriate, share with writing friends and your Twitch community, put a link on your About Me page on Twitch.
This is a much needed category on Twitch, so let's show them just how much it means to us by telling everyone about this effort.
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mezz09 commented
I'm not sure when we breached 500 votes, wasn't expecting to get more than 200 when I started this, so I just want to say thank you to everyone that has voted and commented so far. Please do keep the votes coming in!
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UeberDasChaos commented
Ich schreibe selbst ein bisschen. Philosophisches, Kindereien, FanFiction, zusammenhangloses oder auch NSFW.
Anderen Autoren auf Twitch folgen wäre großartig.
Bitte Twitch, gib uns eine Kategorie! -
havokkhead commented
Creative Writing will explode even more once a tag is designated! I honestly also thought this would have been one of the basic tags already since Arts & Crafts exists!
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DougsWorld commented
Please, Twitch... give us a Creative Writing category!
Seriously, look at the numbers here... -
DogGerry commented
I would really appreciate this kind of categorie like "Writing" or "Creative writing". There is not categorie which would fit in writing.
So noone can find us writers, when we Choose Just Chatting. And that's horrible. -
ThornHawthorne commented
This just plain needs to exist. I have no idea which category to check when I'm browsing for writing streamers to check out because there's nowhere for them to go.
It would make Twitch a much more enjoyable place if we could easily connect with the content creators we want to see.
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HFEproductions commented
being a new streamer is tough enough when you *know* what category you should be using. a dedicated creative writing category would help me and other writing streamers out a lot! prove that you want us here, twitch!
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fauxRIOT commented
I would absolutely love to see Creative Writing turned into its own category on twitch. I've had some of my best interactions come from my writing streams, but I'm constantly bouncing between the Art, Just Chatting, and Makers & Crafting categories trying to figure out where I can reach the most people, and I've found that, even though the #writing tag is how most people have found me, it's also so often ignored or misused.
I recognize so many of the usernames I see in these comments, as other writers who have stumbled across me and vice-versa in the twitch world, and I'd love to be able to connect more with them and their communities!
Streaming my writing over the last year has been an amazing experience for me. It's let me share my biggest passion with friends, it's opened me up to new ways of thinking and expressing myself through my writing, and it has been such an inspiration to keep going forward with my goals. Please, please consider making Creative Writing its own category!!
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The__Southpaw commented
I would also very much enjoy having this category. Even cooking and body art have their own channels so why not Creative Writing?
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HFEproductions commented
i would love this! i didn't even have categories for my first few streams cuz i didn't know what category to use :(
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TheFanFictioneerGuy commented
Personally, I think they should take advantage of the "www. " part and have it as "gaming.twitch.tv" for the gaming categories, and something else for the non-gaming categories.
That way, it's easier to find non-gaming related streams without the hassle of looking around the gaming categories for a category, tag or someone that's not actually doing anything related to gaming.
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AbelAngJQ commented
This is an untapped non-gaming niche that twitch should encourage.
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SirenMoonIllustrations commented
We need a category asap!
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CulturalOsmosis commented
I would appreciate a category for streaming Poetry on Twitch. I believe there's a lot of potential there, and a few other people in the communities I'm involved in seem interested as well.