Here’s the boilerplate I’ve copied:
All DK fiction writers are welcome to post chapters and excerpts as comments in the Fiction Works-in-Progress diaries.
At the top of yr comment, use the header button to embiggen your WIP title so readers can identify it easily. If you’d like feedback, (and what kind), put a note about it in bold regular-size print right under your title.
Writers participating regularly are encouraged to take turns as diarist in this series.
It’s easy! Just coordinate scheduling with one another — usually in a comment headed “Schedule” in the diary thread.
Then, close to your date, copy from the previous week everything you see in the boilerplate blockquote like the one you’re reading right now, and paste it into a blockquote in your draft.
Add the tags one by one —FictionWorksInProgress ■ FictionWIP ■ Fiction ■ R&BL ■ R&BLers ■ Readers&Booklovers ■ ReadersAnd Booklovers ■ writing ■ WriteOnFictionWIP ■ FreeWriters.
When your date and time comes, hit PUBLISH! :)
Immediately copy the diary’s URL — which will always start with
— and c’mon over to tonight’s WriteOn, to paste that URL into a comment where you ask us to reblog yr FWIP diary to the R&BL and FreeWriters groups. Can do!
FINALLY, go back and put your own WIP exerpt into a comment at the FWIP diary you’ve just published, add a separate SCHEDULE COMMENT, and you’re rolling!
A Word of Caution
Many agents and editors don’t accept material that’s been publicly available online in part or in whole, because of risk of a copyright lawsuit by someone who ripped off your work there and claims it as his own. So, if you hope to sell it professionally, you probably don’t want to post it in DK. If you only plan on self-publishing, that risk is only to you. If you don’t plan to sell it anywhere, then it’s probably no concern at all.
