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 for your WIP title so its clear to the readers. If you’d like feedback, (and what kind), add a note in bold 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:
series tag —FictionWIP
tags of the groups who publish the series — R&BL ■ FreeWriters
and topic tag: Fiction
If ambitious, add: FictionWorksInProgress ■ Readers&Booklovers ■ ReadersAnd Booklovers ■ writing ■ WriteOnFictionWIP ■ so followers of those tags can find the diary.
[3] When it’s your date and time, go into your drafts folder, find your FWIP draft, and hit PUBLISH! :)
[4] NOW it’s no longer a draft but a full-fledged diary, with a DK URL in your browser’s address bar! Copy that URL in full — it will start with
http://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 your FWIP diary to the R&BL and FreeWriters groups. Can do!
[5] Finally, go back to the diary, and 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, 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 trouble at all.
