What is Wattpad good for?

[Deleted member 57675]

Looking into maybe writing more again. I know some of you left Wattpad, but for those who still use it, what made you decide to stay? What genre do you focus on? Do you find more stories with the genre your writing in on Wattpad? Or not really?

I've been out of Wattpad for quite a while so idk how much has changed since. What are the pros and cons of current Wattpad?

Thinking bout which place to post besides ScribbleHub and RoyalRoad. Into fantasy, modern, dark, and maybe maybe sol, but not isekai, harem, litrpg, transmigration type of stories.

 

[Irl_Rat]

In my personal experience, wattpad has a lot of focus on romance for women. Like "I can fix him" kinda stories.

 

[Deleted member 19066]

sol

what is sol?

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I’m also curious about this. I took a look at watt padd, but I looked at the nonfiction tag and saw a bunch of fiction stories, so I kinda just wrote off the whole site.

 

[Deleted member 57675]

what is sol?

Slice of life

In my personal experience, wattpad has a lot of focus on romance for women. Like "I can fix him" kinda stories.

I dislike those badboy/ceo/alpha/ex-husband stories. Its cringe. But from searches before and now, I do see some interesting fantasy stories under the fantasy genre. Wondering if its worth it to write fantasy on there. I'm not too sure what I wanna write that would fit on here, or more on Wattpad/RoyalRoad. But have yet to see since I don't have a concrete plot for any story just yet that I wouldn't mind posting online.

 

[tiaf]

They work with netflix. So if you have a story like "Through the window" you can get lots of money with your romanticized toxic hetero story.

My hiatus BL started there and I still intend to update there and here on SH. It's easy to publish there since all you have to/can do is copy-paste I don't like how you get all the paid stories thrown at you (partly with stolen covers) though. If I hadn't started there, then I wouldn't publish there tbh.

 

[Deleted member 58005]

I left it quite a while ago due to me not being able to handle the cringe I wrote

But when I used to write my fanfic, people were more active. I got lots of comments. That's one thing.

I never get comments on Scribblehub, lmao.

 

[RepresentingSilence]

I have no experience with wattpad but the post title immediately made me break out into song?

 

[Kenjona]

From my perspective, a huge amount of frustration is what it is good for. I hate trying to navigate its search and tag function.

 

[Deleted member 57675]

They work with netflix. So if you have a story like "Through the window" you can get lots of money with your romanticized toxic hetero story.

My hiatus BL started there and I still intend to update there and here on SH. It's easy to publish there since all you have to/can do is copy-paste I don't like how you get all the paid stories thrown at you (partly with stolen covers) though. If I hadn't started there, then I wouldn't publish there tbh.

I wondered what Through My Window was. Saw its a movie and found its movie plot on Wikipedia and....my braincells...what?

 

[EternalSunset0]

Looking into maybe writing more again. I know some of you left Wattpad, but for those who still use it, what made you decide to stay? What genre do you focus on? Do you find more stories with the genre your writing in on Wattpad? Or not really?

I've been out of Wattpad for quite a while so idk how much has changed since. What are the pros and cons of current Wattpad?

Thinking bout which place to post besides ScribbleHub and RoyalRoad. Into fantasy, modern, dark, and maybe maybe sol, but not isekai, harem, litrpg, transmigration type of stories.

I still use it. I only have one story, and I post the same series there. The recommendations have so far been good, but I would recommend finding one of those book club/promotion accounts to help you with reach.

Exposure feels absolutely bad there compared to the early 2010s since they axed the forums, and there's no new series tab. Searching for stuff is also quite a nightmare. Still, I think it has an advantage of having a mobile app, and the reading interface feels more compressed and easier to read on desktop. It's more enjoyable to the eyes to read there imo.

 

[Irl_Rat]

They work with netflix. So if you have a story like "Through the window" you can get lots of money with your romanticized toxic hetero story.

Society needs to normalize romanticized toxic queer relationships. Because it's insulting that when someone made up a fantasy about me and a homie, it was a completely functioning relationship. Like she didn't even consider why me and my friend were single at the time.

 

[BlackKnightX]

Looking into maybe writing more again. I know some of you left Wattpad, but for those who still use it, what made you decide to stay? What genre do you focus on? Do you find more stories with the genre your writing in on Wattpad? Or not really?

I've been out of Wattpad for quite a while so idk how much has changed since. What are the pros and cons of current Wattpad?

Thinking bout which place to post besides ScribbleHub and RoyalRoad. Into fantasy, modern, dark, and maybe maybe sol, but not isekai, harem, litrpg, transmigration type of stories.

I’m not that familiar with Wattpad, but from what I’ve seen so far, it seems to be dominated by teenage girls. The stories there are—as we might have already expected—about teenage girl’s fantasy: romance, shipping, vampire, werewolf, and all that.

Scribble Hub, on the other hand, seems to be dominated by degenerated Otakus who, of course, are more interested in sex, smut, pervertedness, kinks, get-into-the-body-of-a-cute-girl-and-experience-sex-in-the-new-way syndrome, and some fuckeries bullshits like NTR.

What about isekai and fantasy and all that? Well, let me tell ya, boy: those are all considered the default genres of web novels. It’s like if you don’t write isekai, you don’t write anything at all—exaggerated, of course, but it comes pretty close, I suppose.

With that said, if you wanna kick start your writing, then have a pick: are you into teenage girl’s fantasy, or are you into perverted Otaku‘s fantasy?

Good luck, brave one~ ✌?

 

[tiaf]

Society needs to normalize romanticized toxic queer relationships. Because it's insulting that when someone made up a fantasy about me and a homie, it was a completely functioning relationship. Like she didn't even consider why me and my friend were single at the time.

Interesting.

the toxic version wouldn’t have a morale of ‘you let your kid do what you want only if it nearly died’ right?

Then I would read. But only if it doesn’t include rape, cause that’s overused and often badly written.

 

[IDKWtWrite-San]

Here in PH before, we have a wattpad series in TV5 (channel) where there are stories portrayed in TV. I seen mostly the stories focusing more on romance/sol. The only one that interest me there are the horror genre where students are being killed 1 by 1 and the group need to solve this.

 

[tiaf]

I wondered what Through My Window was. Saw its a movie and found its movie plot on Wikipedia and....my braincells...what?

Ikr. Gosh, the names of the three brothers. Now you get what wattpad audience is looking for.

It’s a teenage girl illusion that ‘you are the one who can change him’ that is so popular. The teenage angst and you can get through it if you preserve. I kinda understand why teenagers are into this, but why is the premises always so cringe and over the top?

 

[CarburetorThompson]

It’s a teenage girl illusion that ‘you are the one who can change him’ that is so popular.

I hope none of them take that toxic mindset into reality.

 

[Deleted member 57675]

I’m not that familiar with Wattpad, but from what I’ve seen so far, it seems to be dominated by teenage girls. The stories there are—as we might have already expected—about teenage girl’s fantasy: romance, shipping, vampire, werewolf, and all that.

Scribble Hub, on the other hand, seems to be dominated by degenerated Otakus who, of course, are more interested in sex, smut, pervertedness, kinks, get-into-the-body-of-a-cute-girl-and-experience-sex-in-the-new-way syndrome, and some fuckeries bullshits like NTR.

What about isekai and fantasy and all that? Well, let me tell ya, boy: those are all considered the default genres of web novels. It’s like if you don’t write isekai, you don’t write anything at all—exaggerated, of course, but it comes pretty close, I suppose.

With that said, if you wanna kick start your writing, then have a pick: are you into teenage girl’s fantasy, or are you into perverted Otaku‘s fantasy?

Good luck, brave one~ ✌?

Goddamit. What if its neither? Lol

Ikr. Gosh, the names of the three brothers. Now you get what wattpad audience is looking for.

It’s a teenage girl illusion that ‘you are the one who can change him’ that is so popular. The teenage angst and you can get through it if you preserve. I kinda understand why teenagers are into this, but why is the premises always so cringe and over the top?

True. Which is why I don't look up stories in the romance genre there. I look up only under fantasy section.

 

[BlackKnightX]

Goddamit. What if its neither? Lol

Then you might be a swan in a swarm of ducks~ lol

 

[CL]

I hope none of them take that toxic mindset into reality.

They have, do, and will. It's a fantasy that sounds possible to become somebody's hero and, in the process of "saving" them, having the probability of molding them into the perfect SO. The more ways these scenarios are heard, seen, and read, the greater this dream becomes as real as a religion.

I'm guilty of having tried.