Welcome to the Wattpad Block Party - Summer Edition III!
Round SIX of this popular event is coming your way the entire month of August 2017 and it's going to be epic! The invites have started to roll out and everyone from your all time favorite Wa...
You pull out the book, or open the app, and dive in. By the time you swipe up or turn the page, the book has you snagged. You are a slave to the plot. Once you find Wattpad, your diet goes nuclear, with millions of books in every genre to read FOR FREE. You start reading and it becomes a challenge to stop. One book makes you laugh, one makes you cry, and one makes you die a little because it's so good you just can't... You now wonder what the heck took you so long to find this site!
Be it the characters, the emotional thread or the level of mystery in the story, something draws you in on an almost spiritual level. When a writer can play with the emotions of a reader, the feels are real, as the saying goes. You find yourself at the mercy of the plot. More times than you would like to admit, you have read until your eyes are blurry, until your heart can't take it anymore. Ahem...you may have been known to ignore your family, avoid household chores and lose sleep when involved with an author. You give the author full control. You binge on that book and may even avoid a meal or two because who has time to eat when there's this amazing book you could be reading instead?
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Then the book insomnia sets in, and not just staying up late to read, but actually waking up out of a dead sleep in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep because you are thinking about what is happening to the characters. Like if you don't read right then, you'll miss something. As if it is happening in real time.
Finally, you finish the book and then are hit with a depression that it's already over. Never mind the happy ending or the epilogue, but you're sad that you won't have a relationship with those characters anymore. That's right, a relationship. Those characters are family to you while you are in the book. You feel their feels, dream their dreams, you love who they love...
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But then what? Do you go on your merry way, finding more books to devour and enjoy? Well, yes, of course you do, but not before letting the author know how their creativity has touched you. You may be nervous to post that comment if you've never left one before, but then you realize it's easier than you think, so you go ahead and hit post.
That's when the magic happens. The author comments back and you are hooked. Because where else in the wonderful world of books can you react to something an author has written, ask a question about the plot, or encourage them on THEIR writing journey. Nowhere. You have connected with that author in a way that hasn't been possible with published books, and you find yourself looking for the comment link at the bottom of the page, only to be disappointed when you realized that paper books don't have those.
