Peter Armstrong, co-founder of LeanPub, recently lectured on UTube about writing a book (in progress) on line….in a blog or on UTube or on your web site. This is called ‘progress writing’ or ‘progress publishing’. He claims you will get great reader feedback and gain traction for your final, finished book.
And this might be right for you. It may give you the stimulus, the poke in the rump that you need to either start writing or to continue writing.
Here’s how I feel about it:
‘Progress writing’ makes it too easy for someone to steal your idea/story. Even if you have covered yourself with a ‘poor man’s copyright’ like I’ve told you how to do or even if you’ve sent it partially written to the Library of Congress, your idea can be plagiarized and you may never know it. And what if the person who took your idea for a story gets it finished before you do. They are published and now you look like you ‘borrowed’ their idea. Continue reading “A Rebuttal….Wiz Kid encourages ‘Progress writing’. This author Doesn’t!”