Tag: WIP

Meme: Lucky Seven

I’ve been tagged for the Lucky 7 meme by twitter buddy Emilia Quill. Currently I am stressing to the eyeballs about finishing the WIP before Camp NaNoWriMo starts (Ha! Like that’s going to happen) and planning the next two standalone novels.

Here’s the seven lines from page 77 of my WIP, starting from line seven six. We’re crashing one of many dates that Tina goes on in the book:

“Do you want to get in?” Lachlan asked after we’d watched the dolphins peeking at us, swimming past and flashing their fins at us, somersaulting out of the water and splashing us, laughing at us and inviting us to join them in the water. They seemed to be saying, Come on in! The water’s fine.

“Should we?” I said. “I mean, they’re wild. Isn’t it illegal or something?”

He gave me a smile that bordered on condescending. “No one’s going to stop us.” He kicked a leg over one side of the boat. “Or are you too afraid?”

The seven I’m tagging:

Charlotte E English

Devil’s Advocate

Writing Through Rose Tinted Glasses

A Beautiful Ramble

That’s it, actually. I don’t follow many writers with a WIP: my circles are more reviewers or people already (traditionally) published who won’t share a WIP.

Wattpad

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Wattpad is an awesome website where you can upload your own content for free reading. It’s the home of fanfiction and indie writers. It’s aimed at mobile users – people with smart phones, etc – but anyone can join and read free books and works in progress (WIP). I joined a few weeks ago and yesterday I posted my first story.

The Archive of Lost Dreams is available on Wattpad. I’ll be slowly uploading all of my content on to Wattpad: that means all the Storm Front stories and a serialised version of The Edge of Darkness.

I’m toying with the idea of keeping a WIP on there as well, and updating it as I write it, but I don’t write linearly (as much as I try to) and as much as writing is a hobby for me, I am trying to treat it like a job. I’m going back and filling in empty places in The Oncoming Storm (working title) and I wouldn’t feel comfortable putting a first draft up on the website, anyway.

It might be an idea for the future, though, especially as I am going to attempt to use Camp NanoWriMo as extra motivation to get some more novels done this year.

I’d like to know your opinion: would you like to read a work in progress, or would you prefer I serialise a completed, edited and polished novel? Would you like to see how I work, or would you rather wait for the final product?