All About the Werewolf

From the Bottom

You know, when you're sitting at the bottom of the pile in terms of reads/ votes/ comments, things can kind of look daunting when your end goal is to get to the #1 spot or get over a million reads.

But the biggest bit of advice I can give you is, don't rush your damn book! You're going to put all this effort into publishing something you might as well make it damn well worth the read. Elaborate on things...take the friggin time to just enjoy what you're doing because lets face it, not everyone has the luxury of expressing their ideas and putting pen to paper (or in most cases fingers to keyboards).

I like stories that have very few typos.

And yeah, you could point out that my chapter updates have a butt load of typos in them. But lets face it, I'm not out to get a million people to read my chapters. I'm just here to swear, eat candy canes and listen to some crappy music.

I just want to get this out there, because I don't think a lot of people realize this simple fact: just because you wrote a story/ chapter, doesn't mean people are going to automatically read it.

Can we please just let that sink in for a moment. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from writing their stories, but people need to realize that Wattpad is this living thing that grows daily, changes and morphs. What you wrote yesterday may not be what readers are looking for today and may be way off track from what they want to read tomorrow.

I'm not trying to scare anyone with that piece of sh*t advice either, just let it sink in.

Just because you wrote something doesn't mean someone HAS to read your story. Writing isn't about forcing people to read your sh*t, it's about expressing your ideas, telling stories and all that sorta sappy stuff. 

Writers need to get that idea out of their heads, that they're entitled to readers because they posted a story.

Being famous is a struggle, it's a struggle to get there and it's a struggle to maintain. Sure, reads come easier once you're hit 100k+ reads on a story. A story will do it's own advertising from that point on with little input from you.

I've seen a few 'famous' Wattpad writers come up through the ranks lately and you want to know what they all say? Being famous kind of sucks, well being Wattpad famous kind of sucks. 

Because the fame not only brings out the trolls, it also brings out the stupid. Once you're that famous with that many reads you get so many stupid questions from clueless people that it's frustrating. 

You get the people who only read one type of story, telling YOU that you've written something wrong or that things shouldn't be written that way. You get the typo commentators who either only point out the single word that you've gotten wrong or apologize profusely when they're about to point out another typo. You get the horn-dogs who are only looking for sex chapters, or others who are only looking for certain kinds of things that your story doesn't have. And then you get the *ssholes. The ones who comment on each chapter despite the claim that they hate your story.

And don't even get me started on the reading lists you get added to. Jeez, there are some creative people out there who just love to bring others down.

Anyway, I forget what I was going to say and I went off on a tangent. So you get a sort of half *ss update from me that probably makes no sense and looks more like orders than advice.