Xrivo

A creative network for writers

XRIVO.com is a place to workshop your writing privately
with friends, share your work with a broad
creative community and celebrate writing in every form
from hasty notes to polished manuscripts.

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Built by writers, for writers, XRIVO.com has the tools you need to get thoughts down immediately, revise together in writing workshops, and share with your own creative community. You can also:

  • Give and get feedback with line-by-line comments system
  • Get a new writing prompt every weekday
  • Collaborate with peers to produce a single piece
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XRIVO is where any serious writer, who either cannot or (for reasons one can easily imagine) would not participate in an actual classroom-based workshop, should – virtually – go. It is so much better than anything else like it on the Internet. It is both beautifully and brilliantly organized. And, well, it’s fun!!

— Kevin Kopelson, Professor of English, The University of Iowa
Free Writing

XRIVO.com is designed to foster all kinds of writing from a piece's humble beginnings to a finished manuscript. There are no limits to the content that can be saved and shared on-site. Our Free Writing function serves to give you the tools to record that latest, wild idea before you lose it to creative amnesia.  This is the ultimate "Write first, think later" space. All you have to do is write.

"Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure."

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Writing Workshop

Designed by writers, for writers, the Writing Workshop has been developed to mimic the in-depth and thorough nature of intensive workshops to revise your writing Co-founders Alex and Joseph loved about their time studying writing at the University of Iowa. We know how important constructive, thorough feedback is at all points of the writing process. To that end, you can use XRIVO.com to work privately with your peers to get intensive, line-by-line comments or collaborate to produce a single work.

 

Community Writing

We here at XRIVO.com are devoted to creating a helpful, passionate, creative community for everyone to enjoy.  To do that, we've tried to design a system with tools for both writers and readers.  You can share your work with whatever audience you want, from no one at all to the entire XRIVO userbase, and gather feedback on a piece however you like.  We'd love to see writing from each and every one of you, but if you're more of the reading type, you can find and follow interesting new writers, leave them your comments, and get updates whenever they publish anything.

Protecting You

We've taken every precaution to make sure your work is protected when it's submitted to the site.  Whenever you save any work to our servers, you'll get an e-mail with a timestamp and the content of your piece, confirming your complete ownership of the work.  As you'll see at the bottom of the site on every single page, the copyright for your piece will always rest with you, never us or any other party.  As writers ourselves, we're invested in defending your creative work by insuring your authorship can't be questioned.