Write On Fiction Works in Progress: Pumpkin Patch

Welcome to tonight's fiction works in progress diary. Come on in, put your feet up, and relax.

Fiction writers are invited to post chapters and excerpts as comments at Fiction Works-in-Progress diaries like this one.  At the top of yr comment, use the header button — it has an H on it — for your WIP title so its clear to the readers. If you’d like feedback, (and what kind), add a note in bold — the B button — regular-size print below your title.      This series is a co-op: writers take turns as diarist.  It’s easy! If you’re an editor at R&BL or FreeWriters, you can queue and schedule there in advance to post automatically. If not, no prob: [1] AHEAD OF YOUR DATE & TIME, copy from the previous week all the paragraphs you see in the boilerplate blockquote like the one you’re reading right now, and paste them into a blockquote in your draft. [2] Put tags on your draft so followers can find the diary:         series tag: FictionWIP       Topic tags: Fiction and writing         tags of the groups who publish the series: R&BL  and FreeWriters           If ambitious, also copy from here to add: FictionWorksInProgress and Readers&Booklovers and ReadersAndBooklovers and WriteOnFictionWIP ■ [3] When it’s your date and time, go into your drafts folder, find your FWIP draft, and hit PUBLISH! :) [4] At that point,  it’s no longer a draft but a full-fledged diary/story/article, with a site URL up in your browser’s address bar! Copy the URL in full — it will start with https://www.dailykos.com/stories... — 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! [5] Finally, back in your FWIP diary, put your own WIP exerpt or chapter into a comment there, AND YOU’RE ROLLING! If you can, add a schedule comment copied from the previous week, with any additions made, and say in that comment, “Please sign up!” 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 tribble at all.

I will post the schedule in a comment.