u/Future_Language76833

been working on a sci-fi project for a while and love this sub but I keep wanting something smaller and ongoing. not a formal critique group or a massive server, just a few writers who are actually in it, like the people who actually get the stuff

the specific kind of people who will go down a research rabbit hole with you at midnight about Kardashev scales or first contact protocols, then actually use it in their writing. who understand why you spent three weeks on the political structure of an interstellar civilization before writing a single scene. who write everything from hard sci-fi to soft space opera and don't gatekeep which one counts

looking for people to share rough drafts with, sanity-check worldbuilding, keep each other writing when the project starts feeling too big and ofc would read alot of other genres and their rants

does a writing community like this exist already? open to starting something small if not

i need to vent because today's all hands was the final straw

my vp of sales stood up in front of 30 people and said sdr role as we know it is going away within 18 months and then in the same breath told us our q2 activity targets are going up 20% ,so you're telling me my job is dying And you want me to do more of it while it dies. cool cool cool cool

I've been an sdr for 14 months ,in that time i've watched three people on my team get laid off and not replaced, watched our tech stack change four times because leadership keeps chasing whatever tool got hyped on linkedin that week, and watched my base salary stay exactly the same while my quota went up twice.

my actual day looks like this, i wake up and spend the first 20-30 minutes logging into four separate platforms because our TeCh sTaCk is actually four different tools duct taped together with zapier so i pull a list from one tool, clean it because half the emails bounce, export it, import it into the sending tool, set up the sequence, then switch to a completely different app to make calls, then manually log everything back into the crm because the integration broke again three weeks ago and nobody's fixed it

By the time i actually start talking to humans its 10:30am and ive done an hour and a half of admin work that has nothing to do with selling. Then i make calls for three hours where 80% go to voicemail and the 20% who pick up are annoyed i'm interrupting their day. send follow ups,update the crm,write notes blaha blah blah and finally attend a pipeline review where my manager asks me why my numbers are down even though he can see i'm making 60+ dials a day.

the irony of my vp saying AI will replace sdrs is that the thing making this job miserable isn't the selling part, the selling part is fine, i actually like talking to people and figuring out their problems. The thing killing me is the 40% of my day spent on tool admin and data hygiene and crm updates and switching between platforms. if Ai replaced that part id be thrilled ,instead what's probably going to happen is they'll use ai as an excuse to lay off more sdrs and make the remaining ones do even more with the same broken tools.

one guy on my team suggested some tools that consolidate all tools in one place two months ago for his sequences because he got tired of the four tool circus but management hasn't approved it for the rest of the team because they're evaluating which means they'll decide in six months after three more people quit.

The thing that gets me is that every sales leader on linkedin is posting about the future of ai in sales while their actual sdrs are sitting in broken tool stacks doing manual data entry like it's 2019. the disconnect between what leadership talks about and what the people doing the work actually experience is genuinely staggering.

I don't know if ai is going to replace sdrs, maybe it will but right now in may 2026 the sdr role isn't being killed by ai, it's being killed by companies that won't invest in their people or their tools and then act surprised when turnover hits 40% and quota attainment drops every quarter.

sorry for the rant,needed to get this out somewhere. Anyone else's leadership doing the ai will replace you but also work harder right now or m i gods fav one?

Genre/s: Open to all fiction (fantasy, sci-fi, literary, mystery, etc.), preferably long-form (novels/series)

Goals / expectations / commitment:I’m building a system designed to help writers manage complex stories (characters, timelines, relationships, structure)

This is not a writing or AI generation tool. The goal is clarity and organization as stories scale.

Looking for a small group of experienced writers to:

Test an early version

Share honest, critical feedback

Help shape the product direction

Time commitment is light and flexible (a few sessions of feedback). This is a paid opportunity.

Writing / experience level: Published authors or experienced fiction writers who have worked on longer or complex projects

Meeting place: Remote (Discord / Notion / Google Meet depending on preference)

Max size:. Looking to onboard 15-20 writers max. DM if Interested