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Publishing guidance, manuscript feedback, and someone to hold you accountable when "I'll write tomorrow" hits its third consecutive week.
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Ask about coachingAlexander Pennington · YA author · community guy
STILL ASPIRING ON PURPOSE.
Aspiring YA author. Founder of Aspiring Writers United — 160,000+ writers strong. Making the writing struggle a little less lonely, and a lot funnier.
Chapter 01 · the human
THE GUY BEHIND
THE GROUP
actual author. actual bike. zero studio headshots.
Alexander Pennington writes YA fiction and runs Aspiring Writers United, a community of 160,000+ writers trading advice, edits, and the occasional shared meltdown over a stubborn plot hole.
What started as one writer venting online turned into a full publishing-coaching practice — helping other aspiring authors get unstuck, get edited, and get published.
He's still writing his own books between all of it, because the struggle never actually ends — it just gets funnier to talk about.
- Writes YA fiction
- Runs a 160K-writer community
- Rides that orange bike in the photo
Chapter 02 · the day job
WORK WITH ME
Three ways to make the struggle shorter. None of them involve suffering alone.
Manuscript Feedback
An honest editing pass from someone who's read a lot of first drafts and lived to tell about it. Yours is probably better than you think. Probably.
tell me about your draft first
Ask about editingSpeaking & Podcasts
Community building, growing an audience from zero, and why 160,000 writers voluntarily hang out in one group. Happy to talk about any of it.
mic provided by you, jokes by me
Book meChapter 03 · the receipts
THE BOOKS
Written between coaching calls, community posts, and rides.
The Trials
99% of humanity gets raptured. Two marines have to prove the rest of us were worth saving — to the devil himself.
How To Master Social Media And Increase Your Followers
From under a hundred followers to one of the biggest bookstagram accounts around. The receipts, in book form.
Chapter 04 · the good part
ASPIRING WRITERS
UNITED
The internet's friendliest place to have a breakdown about chapter twelve.
160,000+
writers in the group
1
shared existential crisis
0
judgment for your first draft
"Posted my first chapter expecting silence. Got twelve people helping me fix my opening line instead."
— a member, probably crying (good tears)
"It's the only place online where 'my plot has a hole in it' gets sympathy AND solutions."
— another member, mid-revision
free. always has been.
77K+followers
160K+community members
Featuredon Bored Panda
2books, more in the drafts
Me: "This is the year I finish the manuscript."
Also me: *starts a new project* *distant sobbing*
the post that says it all
Chapter 05 · the part where you say hi
SAY HELLO
Coaching, editing, podcasts, or just to tell me about your plot hole. All welcome.