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>>I'm transferring over here from a different journal service.<<

newcomers has lots of resources about how to use Dreamwidth and where to find things you'll enjoy here. If you're coming from Tumblr, soc_puppet has posted tutorials for that angle. Find your Tumblr friends here.

The Follow Friday Master Post has lists of active communities by topic where you can look for some based on your interests, including some of the Most Useful Communities. Many bloggers use recurring posts to pin down their key interests and maintain activity, which is also a good source of inspiration if you aren't sure what you want to post yet.

The next big event will be marchmetamatterschallenge for archiving or writing new meta such as reviews, canon overviews, or fanifestos.

>>Along the way, I started posting other things -- thoughts on movies, <<

You might like movie_buffs, thecinema, or moviefanfiction.

>> end-of-the-year surveys, <<

See goals_on_dw for things like Reflections. its busiest season is December-January but there is some activity year-round with the monthly check-in posts.

>>and some of my writings. I'm not a great writer. I've never "published" anything except what few things I've dropped onto my journal (or onto a short-lived site that I used to have.) But I wrote for the fun of it, and I posted it so my one fan (my brother) could read it.<<

There are plenty of Creative Writing communities.