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 H 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.
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, go into your drafts folder and <big>hit PUBLISH! </big> on that draft! If you compose the draft just shortly before publish time, even easier :)
Then immediately copy the published diary’s URL up in the address bar — it’ll 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!
<big>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! </big>
A Word of Caution
Many agents and editors don’t accept material that’s been publicly available anywhere in part or in whole, because of risk of a copyright lawsuit by someone who rips it off to claim as his own. So, if you hope to sell it professionally, you probably don’t want to post it online, not even 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.
