The Pendraic Discord

Joining

The fastest way is the Discord link in the site footer, or you can go straight to pendraic.com/discord. That redirects to the current invite. The server is free and open to anyone with a Discord account.

When you first land, you’ll see a small set of channels: a welcome page, the rules, and a public lobby. Everything else is gated behind a one-time verification step that connects your Discord account to your Pendraic account.

Verifying you’re a Pendraic user

We verify because the help, templates, and project-specific channels work better when the people in them are actually using Pendraic. The verification is short and only happens once per Discord account.

1. In Discord, run the command: /verify email:you@example.com (use the email you signed up to Pendraic with).
2. Check your email.Penny sends a one-click confirmation link that’s good for 24 hours.
3. Click the link.You’ll land on a Pendraic page that confirms the link, and the bot grants you the Verified Member role.
4. All channels open up. Refresh Discord and the rest of the server appears in your sidebar.

If the email doesn’t arrive, look in spam first. Penny also DMs you the same link as a backup, so check your Discord DMs from the Pendraic bot too. If neither arrives, run /verify again with the address you actually use; we always honor the most recent run.

What’s in the server

The channels are organized so you can ignore the parts you don’t care about. Here’s a quick map.

Public (no verification needed)

• welcome — what the server is, how to verify, and links back here.
• rules — the short list of expectations.
• announcements — new-feature posts, status updates, and changelogs.
• lobby — the public chatter channel, open to anyone who joins.

Member-only (after you verify)

• introductions— say hi, tell us what you’re working on, find writers in your genre.
• how-to — quick walkthroughs and tips for using Pendraic effectively.
• tips and tricks — small wins, prompt patterns, mode and outline tricks.
• faq — answered questions; check here before posting in tech-support.
• tech support — something not working? Ask here. Bug reports also land here so the team sees them.
• templates — share your outline templates, beat sheets, and prompt presets with other writers.
• your projects— drop links to anything you’ve published using Pendraic. We celebrate releases here.
• writing-craft— open craft talk: structure, voice, pacing, character work, whatever’s on your mind.
• general — everything else.

What Penny does in Discord

Penny is the bot you use to verify (the /verify command). She doesn’t hold conversations in the server itself; for that you have Penny inside the app, which has the full context of your project. The Discord Penny is intentionally narrow: she handles verification, role assignment, and not much else.

Privacy and what we link

The verification step records two things: which Discord user ID you used to run /verify, and which Pendraic account (identified by the email you typed) it’s linked to. Nothing else. Your manuscript, your worldbuilding, your writing history; none of it crosses into Discord. The link exists so we can grant you the right role and so support can confirm you’re a Pendraic user when you ask for help.

To break the link, write to help@pendraic.com and we’ll remove the row.

Trouble?

• /verify says my email isn’t connected. You probably signed up with a different address. Run /verify again with the email you used at sign-up.
• The link expired. Run /verify again. New link, fresh 24 hours.
• I clicked the link but don’t see new channels. Refresh Discord (Cmd/Ctrl+R) or fully close and reopen the client; role assignment is instant on our end but the client sometimes lags.
• The bot DMed me but I can’t reply. That’s expected; the bot doesn’t handle replies. Run commands in the server, not in DMs.