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Words of Motivation from @BrightWhiteSnow

BrightWhiteSnow is an author here on Wattpad with a book with over a million reads! She is an amazing writer and you guys should check her out!
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Hello, my name is Hailey, but I go by the online pen name BrightWhiteSnow, but it doesn't really matter. I have been writing for almost five years now and one thing that I have learned it that there are going to be things that you write that you are going to love and then there is going to be one things that you are just going to hate.

I am here to give some advice so here it goes.

Critics and Haters
People are going to critic on your work and a lot of the time it will be more or less hate. Believe me, I know a lot on this subject. I used to write to other people's liking, but recently I have come to a realization that good writing it based off you and your style and nobody else's. I can almost ensure you that there is going to be people out there who want to make you feel bad about what you love to do, but you have to let it go in order to succeed. Now, not to get haters and critics mixed up, one is inspiration and advice to improve, whereas haters just find some sort of joy of putting you down. I am not going to lie, throughout the last year the haters that read my work has really engulfed me with their words and I think that in a way they have pushed me to work harder, but they have just put me in this terrible misery. Some people are just mean. So, my last thought on this is for you to concentrate on you and the critics and the haters second and if they're relevant then take it into consideration, otherwise delete the comment.

Getting Noticed

This part is hard, I know. I worked at it for months and months and then one day I hit one million and after that it has just been rising and rising. I went from getting hundred reads a month to two million a month. Now to get a lot of fans and reads it requires a few things. My advice is to write the book that you want to read and that is exactly what I did. It is important to write in a rising category to get noticed and Teen Fiction is certainly a big one right now. If what you are looking for is reads, comments and votes, you have to be writing things that people want to write about. Over the months that I have been writing my book, I try extremely hard to make sure that my work is free of clichés because they are a biggy in teen fiction. I think that I have done a pretty good job but now that I think about it clichés aren't all that bad. I mean if you're looking for a competition. Let's take the cliché of bad boys. For years and years on Wattpad and in publishing houses, bad stories have always sparked the interest of so many people, but mostly women and that is because it is something that they're not used to. If you want to write a bad boy story, you have to make it different in a comparison to all the others because chances are what you want to do, it's already been done. My final advice on this is to take the cliché and make it your own and make bigger and better then the others. Back to getting popular. I have a five step rule, but I am sure I will add of to it as I continue to thrive in the Wattpad community.

Five Steps to Gain Wattpad Fame:

Cover

This is my book cover and I am extremely proud of it. I spent multiple times trying to get it right and when I did I felt finally satisfied with it. When I look at this cover, it catches my attention immediately. The bolded words and the border definitely makes me feel intrigued and I am not just saying this because I wrote the book. If you look on Wattpad, the most popular and successful books have beautiful covers. This is not some coincidence, it is science. When you see something you like, it intrigues you. It's just the truth, okay? Plus whoever told you to not judge a book by it's cover is a hypocrite because everyone does it and now more then ever.
(Cover is at the top)

Ask people

Now with this, there is a fine line between spam and just genuinely asking. I remember when I was just starting out, I private messaged so many people and I would say that about half replied and then other half ignored me. It's going happen, there is no doubt about it. Go ahead and ask people, there is no harm in it, but do not harass or spam people. Now my last thought on this one is to never ever promote your work on other writer's or user's walls or stories. This happens to me time after time and must I just say that it is just rude. Unless you are given permission to promote then don't do it. What some people don't understand is that that is someone else's space not yours to step all over. I'm sorry this is getting personal. Anyways, moving on.

Intriguing description

Yes, this is very important, well all these are important, but this is especially important. People judge. All. The. Time. Even though you may not be able to see it or realize it, everyone does it. It's human nature. Descriptions are what makes readers want to read the actual story. I'm not going to lie, my description is a clichés, but readers like clichés, that is way they have been so successful in the past. In this section writing, it needs to be perfected. Free of error and creates suspense. Now I sound like a hypocrite because my description is not that good, but clearly it gains attention.

Make the first chapter amazing

Once again, this has to do with captivating the reader. If you write a really good first chapter, people will have no choice but to continue reading. Make suspense at the end just to keep the reader there because they do stray. So that means not taking over three thousand years to update. I have come to realize that most people base how good the book is based off the chapter and I think that is why my book has so many reads on the first chapter, but not as much as the chapters after.

Have at a minimum of three chapters to keep people's attention

Now finally with the last step, it is important to have more then one chapter. Now two chapters is cutting it pretty close but three chapters really keeps you in the same zone for keeping readers. People who will read your story will want a bit of writing to understand what your story is all about. To make people want to continue to read your story you need to keep their attention. This is vital.

One other thing that could help if possible is your follower count. If you have a high follower count, for me it makes me feel like that person is important, so their books must be good too.

That is all I've got at the moment.

Thank you,

BWS❄️