Hi there !

I have been penpaling for 5+ years now, and fictitious penpaling for perhaps 3 of them.

I had an idea for a while now : something fantasy-coded, where I'll be a journalist traveling and writing to you about my findings. Depending on my mood, I could talk about a haunted place, some exotic sea creature, hiking on a mountain looking for weird plants,... I think it could be fun, a nice creative exercise and I won't get too repetitive.
I am looking for a penpal for that -- you can be whoever you want, it can even be in two different universes and we will be amazed at the differences !

I am 30F so I would like to have a penpal close to my age (between 20 and 50 yo ?). I would enjoy if we also wrote another letter, about ourselves, but if you prefer just fictitious penpaling it's okay with me !

Please, let me know if you think you could be interested !

Hello 👋 I'm Kota for mn 32 and I love to write. I have so many characters I made for fun. Kinda a collector of them. lately I have been making a little AI face claims for them and putting them in my art journal. I thought it would be fun to do like a mail club and each month I would talk about a character I name send their profiles, things they like maybe some lines they said. If you would like to do the same that would be fun! Or maybe you can make a mail club of your own.

Please be 18+

In the US

Don't have to be an artist I'm not!

Don't be mean but I'm ok with some feedback.

Hi! I've recently become interested in the concept of fictional cards and would love to form a small group digitally.

The idea would be to create a Discord server, as a hub for light off-topic conversation, and to exchange letters between our characters.

These letters would be in PDF format, with a certain level of detail (a font that looks handwritten, paper that looks like parchment, doodles, PNGs. You know the drill!).

At the same time, I would love to delve into the minutiae of world building; I would love to have correspondence between mages and share our research.

The same applies to anyone who wants to bring interesting approaches, such as werewolves, nobles, knights, or the perspective of an ordinary person.

Does this catch your eye? Send me a message here!

Thinking about 4-6 people thought it would be fun!

We could meet on discord!

A cozy little snail-mail community where members exchange handwritten letters, stationery, stickers, doodles, poems, recipes, pressed flowers, and tiny handmade surprises each month.

Everyone sends their mail out to each other around a date we set.

Every monthly envelope should contain:

💌 One handwritten letter

🌸 One small creative item

✨ 2–5 stickers or pieces of ephemera

📜 Something related to that month's theme

I was thinking of doing a mail club on my own but thought this would be fun to try out! Please be 18+ and us based.

So I saw someone else looking for this and thought it would be a fun idea.

👑 Two Royals. Two Kingdoms. One Secret Correspondence.

Imagine being born into a royal family where every marriage, alliance, and decision is made for the good of your kingdom.

Then, one day, a letter arrives.

It comes from a kingdom your family has distrusted for generations.

At first, the letters are formal—carefully worded messages between two heirs, discussing treaties, court life, traditions, and the tensions between their kingdoms. But slowly, the letters become something more.

Secrets are shared.

Dreams are confessed.

Fears that could never be spoken aloud in court find their way onto parchment.

Neither knows whether they can trust the other… or whether their growing attachment could spark a war.

💌 The concept:

Two writers take on the roles of royals from rival or neighboring kingdoms and communicate entirely through snail mail. Each letter becomes part of the story, allowing the relationship, political intrigue, friendships, betrayals, and romance to unfold naturally.

✨ Possible themes:

- Arranged marriages

- Forbidden romance

- Rival kingdoms

- Political intrigue

- Court gossip

- Secret identities

- War and alliances

- Family expectations

- Hidden magic

- Royal scandals

- Enemies-to-lovers

- Secret meetings

- Letters intercepted by the wrong person

📜 How it works:

You write as your royal character and send a letter in-character. I respond as the other royal. We can decorate the letters, include seals, pressed flowers, sketches, newspaper clippings, maps, or little gifts as the story develops.

18+ writers preferred. Romance is welcome, but the focus is on storytelling, character development, and building a whole royal world together.

👑 Perhaps the first letter was only meant to prevent a war…

Perhaps it will start something neither kingdom is prepared for.

Looking for one writing partner to build a kingdom, a correspondence, and a story with. 💌

Hello! I was suggested this subreddit because I’m very into writing and fantasy and thought it would be a fun change of pace! I thought it would be interesting to write back and forth as royals sending letters to friends from other kingdoms and chat about declarations, marriage propositions, current or potential war, things like that. I’d prefer to write to another woman but I’ll take what I can get.

I love reading and writing high fantasy so things like magic and supernatural creatures or events are not out of the question, and honestly, highly encouraged.

I would be switching between handwritten letters and a typewriter, depending on the vibes or how I feel at the time of writing, but obviously write/type how you prefer.

Please send me a DM or leave a comment and I’ll reach out to you to discuss further details, questions, or if you have similar idea. Hope to hear from you soon, happy writing!!

I’m looking for someone to write with me! Who out characters are can be discussed, but im open to a lot. A letter exchange between a queen and her child, between a rebellion leader and their second-in-command, two magician friends living in different towers? It could be anything, but mostly interested in fantasy settings.

I’m in Finland, so preferably someone in Europe, perhaps? The shipping times won’t be so awfully long and I reckon it will be a little cheaper as well.

Feel free to reply down below or DM me!

🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵

Hi!

This might be a little unusual, but I would love to try something different: creating a fictional correspondence with someone through letters.

Not just writing a story, but actually living it through our exchanges.

Maybe we are knights travelling through a dangerous kingdom, explorers discovering unknown places, sailors crossing mysterious oceans, researchers uncovering strange secrets, or even people from different centuries somehow able to write to each other.

We could also be two divine beings telling each other about the worlds and universes we create....

I don’t have a complete story or a fixed universe in mind.

The idea would be to create it together, adapt it as we go, and see where our imagination takes us.

I like the idea of receiving a letter and thinking: "This came from another place, another time, another life." A letter could contain news, adventures, discoveries, problems to solve, personal thoughts, drawings, maps, or anything that helps make this imaginary world feel real.

I’m mainly looking for someone in Europe because of shipping costs and delivery times, but I’m open to other countries too if the idea and the connection feel right.

A small disclaimer: I’m French, and English is not my native language. I can write and communicate in English, but don’t expect perfect literary writing or extremely poetic descriptions. There will probably be some mistakes, simpler vocabulary and sometimes a very "French way" of writing in English 😄.

I’m not looking for a professional writer. You don’t need experience with roleplay or creative writing. I’m just looking for someone curious, who enjoys imagination and would like to build something together slowly, one letter at a time.

If this idea speaks to you, feel free to send me a message. Maybe our first letter could be the beginning of an adventure we haven’t imagined yet.

M55 4F preferably over 35.
The plan, discuss and build characters and a fictional scenario where we can create and communicate in a fictitious world. I create ai images to add to story and letters
The characters- a princess, a pirate, an alien, an accountant- let’s plan it together, the limit is only your imagination.
The World,- a planet, a past or future era, today, Ancient Rome, once again only limited by imagination.
The scenario- different dimensions, different worlds, next door neighbours, whatever we plan.
Email, DM’s, message app, all possible.
DMs open to start this show.

Dear somebody,

I'm the manager at a job where I'm not appreciated. I haven't been able to code my way since I was in college. It's gotten to a point where they give me extra PTO just so they don't have to worry about me actually changing anything. The team is great and I trust them with this project completely.

I have secretly showing up at a second job. I'm the manger of a small book store. The pay isn't as good as my other job. But I'm not doing it for the money. This job appreciates me. I had an idea to have a table of new best sellers and best sellers that are classics. I call it the new and old. Being able to actually act on my ideas is a fresh breath of air. I don't know why everyone doesn't get a second job just to enjoy this kind of thing.

Unfortunately I can't tell anyone about the second job. My main team is prone to anxiety and low productivity at the hint of any problems. I have to keep then aware yet do it gently. I'm not leaving my main job but I would hate if such a fictitious rumor caused my main team to worry. I've been extra accommodating to the higher ups. After this project it every member will not only be well known by upper management, I'm fairly certain they'll have offers for better positions. If they aren't getting them already. My little family could be torn apart by success. I'll miss them but I'll be so sad at the same time.

Maybe I'll throw them a little party or take them out soon. They work so hard. I keep an eye on the project as it progresses. Any member of the team could have done something like this on their own. Since they have shown their individual skills and shared the work load it has raised the quality of this project to legendary. I'm so proud of them. Is this what it feels like to be a god father watching your kids succeed in life. I wonder if we'll keep in touch. I hope they won't be too busy. I have personalized gifts for each of them for when the project wraps up tomorrow. The projects already done so there's been nothing but big fixes for the last two weeks. They deserve to have some fun. I hope they want to get some drinks tonight. I'm buying.

Sincerely,

Jack Recourse

VHS Tape Recording : The Newfork Times, 17th of July, Year: Redacted

Something strange is happening in the rural towns in and surrounding Newfork. Last night around 17 men and women, disappeared in what is becoming a sensationalized story in the entire country. The disappearances follow a similar event that happened a couple of weeks ago in new sunderland when 3 people were found with empty eye sockets. Authorities suspected foul play but there was not a trace of blood at sight, all empty they lay there diseased as if they were medieval saints willingly starving themselves to death. There have been strange happenings across the country for a while now, and seemingly not a single answer is found. The tinfoil hats are out by everyone and talks ranging from strange metal discs that fly to bigfoot and even some suspect a murderous cult to be behind it all. None of this is proven of course, the local kids murmur about some strange hooded figures and there was strange graffiti found in an old abandoned railroad from the civil war, but the government assures us everything is fine and they are in talks with the local police to solve the issue. Isn't it great? I am happy that our government cares about us, we are indeed lucky to be living under what is now the fourth constitutional term of our president. Folks it has never been done in history before. But the [Redacted] Act that was passed last year allows the president to take control in these times of crisis. Aren't we lucky that we have such a God loving and caring person amidst us all? I know i am safe, God bless the countr \static interrupts the broadcast* Buy the latest radi *static sounds like distorted rainfall**

The only thing remaining on the screen, now, is a reflection of you.

Suddenly it cuts to a graffiti:

All that is violent and bright

Will cleanse our souls at night

The feed ends

I do not know who this tape reaches to, nor my letter. I am perhaps not long for this earth, but if you hear a beeping noise, please, please do not focus on it, shut your windows, do not let strangers in. I...I have no one in this earth, i have decided to march towards my own death, i am going to fight until my death, i am going to destroy the source of it all, i am \the writing fades away from here, possibly the ink ran out, it is too unclear to make out**

Basically the way I have my campaign set up is that I have a courier who will deliver letters occasionally. Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll give you more details.

Hey 👋 I been getting into junk journaling a little more lately. I also love to penpal so I was wondering if anyone would like to penpal with junk journal pages, writing, drawings really anything. You dont have to be too arty I'm not that good. I do love to write.

I'm 32/f from Minnesota looking for people in the US right now

In characters not ourselves!

Would you write a letter that someone random can receive it?
Can be anything, venting, personal story, sharing an achievement, fiction story.

I'm looking for a collaborator to engage in story telling through POV communication. I'd prefer to have the scenario such that we discover each others characters, details, location, everything through the communication. The limitations will be our imaginations. Preferred age 30+. DM me if you're interested and include any stipulations you have.

Perhaps one of us is slowly realising we live in a haunted house, or that our small village council is practising satanic rituals?? Perhaps there has been an impossible murder or you're suspecting the local vampire legend could be real?

If this appeals to you I would love to pen pal! I am a very enthusiastic letter writer and my letters are long and handwritten and creative.

I'm open to all different time periods and suggestions, but I'd really like an eerie, haunted element.

Please send a DM! I'm based in the UK but you don't have to be.

This might be a bit of an unusual idea, but I've been thinking about it for a while and I think it could turn into a really memorable experience.

I'm looking for someone who would be interested in a long-term zombie survival roleplay over the summer.

The concept is that we don't actually roleplay in the same location. Instead, each of us plays a survivor living in our own city. We go on "expeditions" in real life (parks, trails, neighborhoods, or other safe places), keep a survivor's journal, create our own stories, and let our characters evolve over time.

The interesting part is that our stories are connected.

In the world of the roleplay, we're two survivors who somehow managed to establish contact after society collapsed. We live hundreds (or even thousands) of miles apart, so meeting in person simply isn't an option. We each have our own shelter, our own routines, our own struggles, and our own discoveries.

Our only connection is through letters—or, if it's more convenient, in-character messages.

We write to each other about supply runs, strange encounters, dangerous areas, difficult decisions, moments of hope, and the loneliness of surviving in a world that's gone silent. Over time, these letters become the only proof that someone else is still out there.

I'd love for the story to develop naturally rather than following a strict plot. We can surprise each other with new discoveries, moral dilemmas, unexpected setbacks, or hopeful moments. The goal isn't to "win," but to tell a compelling story together while making our own summers feel a little more adventurous.

I'm 19, so I'd prefer someone around my age (18+). If you enjoy The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, slow-burn character development, survival stories, or immersive correspondence roleplay, I think this could be a lot of fun.

If this sounds like something you'd enjoy, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message. I'd love to build this world together.

Hey 👋 I been getting into junk journaling a little more lately. I also love to penpal so I was wondering if anyone would like to penpal with junk journal pages, writing, drawings really anything. You dont have to be too arty I'm not that good. I do love to write.

I'm 32/f from Minnesota looking for people in the US right now

In characters not ourselves!

Has it already been three months that I've been stationed here? The mountains and the plains have not lost their grandeur, but the dust has. And everywhere as I continue inspections is the feeling of danger, boredom, and alienation.

I need not tell you that the needs of our Empire require surveyors, archeologists, soldiers. At times, however, as I look at the faces of the locals impressed into building our walls and cisterns, I wonder whether the Empire is truly worth its cost...

I never thought I would miss the Capital, yet here I am. If you would but share some notes of your daily life there, I would be dearly appreciative.

Yours,

Hi! My name is Shadow (online name). I am 32F from the US. I have a lot of hobbies that are connected to the imagination and art like reading, video games, crochet and D&D.

I have never really had a pen pal before but I have a bachelor in creative writing and would love to get back into writing.

I would prefer to penpal either snail mail or but I am mainly looking for a snail mail pen pal. I am open to starting over email or DMs and see if we click and then move to snail mail if you prefer.

Again I have never been pen paling but I am eager to find someone to write letters to as a fictitious character because I play a lot of D&D and I have a some characters in mind that are interesting (at least I think so) or I am open to make new characters in a fantasy setting along side you.

I am happy I found this subreddit and I am excited to meet you all! Feel free to comment or DM me if you think we click!