True Diary of a Asian American Teenager

March. 19: How Wattpad Run into my Life

Today is story time day! Yay! Okay, maybe not that exciting, but I'll try.
Somewhat 3 years ago, I found wattpad. I found it through one of my friend. She just quickly show me this website she wrote on and told me she got 400 reads. I was surprised people will actually read these things.

Then I took this idea and went to find Wattpad. Before Wattpad, I was on this writing website too, but it is nothing compared to Wattpad. After joining wattpad, I suddenly grew interest in writing. Then I became an author. I still remember myself refreshing the page every 10 minutes ti see if I have reads. Of course, I didn't have any reads. This is when Fanfic came in my eye. I suddenly want to write a fanfic-for reads. I know it is bad okay, but I found it a quick way to have fans.

My first fanfic is GD (kpop). It did gain attention in like...3 days. I have only like 11 reads the first day. Then I have 100,200,500. It is just small numbers that I was hype about. These small number of reads kept me happy the whole day (Iknow, childish). Just to say, my first book is when I wrote at like 13, so it sucks...alot. I still can't make myself to read it again, but I didn't delete it. It is like a good memory I want there. Later, I wrote EXO (kpop) fanfics. It was small too.

Then. BOOM!

That fanfic grew faster than my first one. I hit my 1k to 10k in like 6 months. I was basically bombed with reads. This fanfic is still my most popular one (Appa! I'm Hungry!). People start to comment and vote. The hardest is getting followers, but I gain some. I was the happy kid with followers. Now that fanfic has almost 700k. I know, it is CRAZY!

After that success, I start writing other books. It really make me happy on sad days. I gain so many friends (fans). I'm very grateful! I love you guys!!!!

Now I'm basically a fanfic author who has a little success. I believe it is only the start. I think I will fly higher than this. I'm going on another journey. And I'm taking you with me! We can do it, my loves!