Super-Community: Contests & Challenges

This book contains our collection of contests and challenges that will test your writing mettle! Don those masks and capes and take part in a battle of wits and creativity.

Your Guide to Writing a Killer Thriller

Want to write a killer thriller? This guide contains tricks and tips that will navigate you through the various aspects of a thriller novel. Find answers to the questions that have been burning on your mind.

How to Write Paranormal

Helpful hints on writing, with a focus on best utilizing and subverting common paranormal tropes.

Fright Guidebook

This guide explains all the features you will find on the fright profile. You can also consult our FAQs about Wattpad and links to helpful Wattpad resources. Thank you for stopping by!

100 Things You Should Know About Writing (Part 1)

This is about writing, as I think of it. Subjects covered will range from plot aspects to characterization, writing craft to just surviving as a writer. Mainly, Part 1 is a comprehensive list of things to do in order to create and maintain tension.

How to Write Science Fiction

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not." - Isaac Asimov This piece is intended as a bit of a Help guide, a point of reference and hopefully something people will enjoy, as ultimately all of you will have different experiences reading...

Tips Corner

This is where we talk about writing romance. Everyone is welcome! Tips Corner is an interactive learning format rather than teaching. We all love to read or write romance and whether we realise it or not, are experts and have ideas to offer. There are many 'how to' guides on writing romance so rather than provide ano...

What the F...andom?

Where the FanFic team take you by the hand and guide you through fandoms, some of which we suspect might be entirely new to you!

How to Write Fanfiction

How to Write Fanfiction is a writing resource that contains tips and tricks on crafting fanfiction stories - by the community, for the community. This guide will serve as a helpful point of reference for fanfiction writers both old and new. We ultimately hope to encourage Wattpadders to immerse themselves in the limit...

All About Action

Exciting news, we are here to bring you all the action you can possibly desire. Get strapped in and hold on tight for a thrilling ride. This book is to help you navigate through the various aspects of the Action profile. We will cover loads of guidelines, how's, what's, where's, and why's in here.

Fantasy Sub-Genre Guide

The sub-genres of Fantasy

Writing Great Fiction: An Introduction

Welcome to the Wattpad Writing Great Fiction introduction! You can browse through the chapters and use them as a reference when needed, or you can treat this like a class in writing fiction. There are assignments you can do, but don't worry, there aren't any due dates. There are lectures, but you don't have to take no...

How to Mature

Walk in for a few tips and tricks on how to write mature books.

8 Tips for Writing Better FanFiction - A Simple Guide

Interested in writing better fanfiction? Then you've come to the right place! This concise and helpful guide to writing fanfic proves that by just following a few key tips, you can see a dramatic difference in the quality of your stories. Regardless of who or what your story is about, this "how-to" guide applies to al...