Welcome to the Weekly Fiction WIP Thread! This is a weekly community diary for writers here on Daily Kos to showcase microfiction, ongoing serialized stories, and pieces of larger works in progress. All DK fiction writers are welcome to post chapters and excerpts as comments in the Fiction Works-in-Progress diaries.
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At the top of those comments, use the header format button to embiggen the title of the work in progress from which your material comes, so readers can find it from week to week.
If you would like feedback, be sure to say so in bold (the format button next to H). Readers, please ensure your feedback is constructive (this does not mean it has to be only positive, but it should always be actionable and sincere advice; e.g. compare “this protagonist is terrible” vs “I didn’t feel a connection to your protagonist”) and limit it to writers who request it. Writers, please ensure you are comfortable receiving feedback and commentary before requesting it in your post. Together we can keep this a positive place to share our work, our progress, and indulge in our hobby.
A WORD OF WARNING
Many publishers and agents won’t accept a manuscript that’s been publicly available online in part or in whole, because of risk of getting sued for copyright infringement by someone ripping off your work there and claiming it as his own. So, if you hope to sell it professionally, you probably don’t want to post it in DK. If you plan on self-publishing, that risk is only to you. If you don’t plan to publish it anywhere else, then it’s probably no concern at all.
Click on any of the Readers & Book Lovers tags at the foot of each published diary in this series to reach our shared host-group and find today’s WriteOn series post.
Writers participating regularly are encouraged to share in posting these diaries.
It’s easy. Just coordinate scheduling with one another — usually in a comment headed “Schedule”. Then on the day, copy into your diary draft everything you see in this one you’re reading right now, add the tags one by one —FictionWorksInProgress ■ FictionWIP ■ Fiction ■ R&BL ■ R&BLers ■ Readers&Booklovers ■ ReadersAnd Booklovers ■ writing ■ WriteOnFictionWIP ■ FreeWriters — and hit PUBLISH! :)
THEN copy the published diary’s URL, which will always start with
and c’mon over to tonight’s WriteOn, and paste it into a comment requesting we reblog yr FWIP diary to the R&BL and FreeWriters groups. Can do!
FINALLY, put your own WIP exerpt into a comment at the WIP diary you’ve just published, and you’re rolling!
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Over the past three months, I’ve had a lot of losses and breaches of trust in my personal life (to say nothing of the devastating emotional and psychological toll the election took on me, as it did so many of us). Recently, a mutual friend I shared a lot of writing with and whose opinion I greatly respected cut me off, which I only discovered on finding out he had blocked me on social media without warning. This was the last straw, and I am simply mentally exhausted. Creative writing has gone from a pleasant escape, something I loved to do, to something which only reminds me of the pain people in my life have caused me. It’s tainted right now, and I just don’t want to keep doing it with everything else going on. I still will be on Daily Kos, I still have plans to do non-fiction writing and journalism, but I have a lot of pain to heal before I can even think about creative writing again. For obvious reasons, this will be the last WIP diary I’ll be volunteering to handle for the foreseeable future.
