he leaned closer to me in the back of that rusty pickup truck, and smiled. "i love you" he said, gazing into my eyes. "don't lie to me." i said, leaning away from him. "i've never lied to you." "yes, yes you have. you told me i was pretty and i most definitely am not." ✽ she ate flowers because you are what you eat and she wanted to be beautiful

Welcome Wattpadders! This book will be short and to the point. I won’t bore you with mundane grammar rules or the crap you learn in English class, but I will offer simple suggestions on how to improve your writing. These are tips that I use every day when I sit down to write. Nothing fancy, just the basics. I can’t promise that your “hotness” will go up, but I can guarantee that you’ll be a step above the people who don’t implement these techniques. Also, I encourage you to link to this book when commenting on other’s work. Sometimes it can be draining typing out the same suggestions over and over. I’m not trying to gain votes or comments with this book, I’m just here to provide budding writers with simple methods to hone their skills. So, with that brief introduction out of the way, let’s figure out how to improve your stories on Wattpad!

There are hundreds of fantastic books about writing for hopeful authors to choose from, but most of them are boring, complicated, and bogged down by filler. This little book is brief, straight forward, and easy to understand. I hope it will serve as an easy-to-read manual to help serious writers perfect their craft. I should say right off the bat that I am NOT an expert; I forget my own tips all the time! However, I do know what generally works for me, so I thought I could pass it on to my friends at Wattpad. One last note: this book is for writers who have a basic understanding of grammar and story structure. If you’re interested in more fundamental steps you can take to write a great story, check out the companion to this book!

Brooke, 19, loses her memory after a fire kills her whole family and everything in her home is destroyed. The only thing she has left is a jaded journal with a bucket list she made years ago. Nowhere else to go, she reconnects with an old childhood friend who helps her reach the end of her bucket list, while also battling a heartbreaking fate.

Divinity Claire has been born with a curse that every girl strives for, beauty. Now, as an adult Divy has three of her best friends pursuing her. Each holds a bond of friendship with her that she cannot ignore and refuses to break. So, she tells everyone a little white lie. A white lie that sends her packing to Chicago to look for a man who will fill in for a temporary fiancé. However, when a brokenhearted- and not to mention actually broke- childhood friend comes knocking on Divy's door, a chain of events start that will cause Divy's life to spiral out of control. Divy has to help her friend get back together, keep the truth about her fiancé a secret, and try to divert the attention of her male friends away from her. But, Divy's jealous streak threatens to tear her fragile plans apart. Will her lies undo her? Will she come to grip that love is hard to destroy. In the end, she has to make a choice- a choice that can either keep her a captive to her old ways or set her free with a new love within her heart. (Runner-up in the "Gone with the Wind" category from the 2014 Golden Raspberry Awards)

DISCLAIMER: These are just suggestions, you don't have to do them. I just think they may help. Do you have problems writing characters? Well hopefully this guide's for you. Enjoy exploring the emotional depth and range of your character, stabbing stereotypes in the face and developing realistic characters, not perfect ones.

Failing in an audition is devastating, and no one understands that more than Destiny Lockheart. When Destiny enters Dream Arts, a college for Performing Arts, the self-conscious eighteen year-old will have to face her weaknesses dead in the eye. Will she allow her failures to stop her from reaching her full potential? Although he is popular, the words proud, cocky and vain do not describe Train Tanner, a talented and gifted guitarist who met the fate of losing his family in a car accident. With overloaded secrets, wounds and scars, how will Train ever have faith again? How will he overcome his fear of losing the ones he love? Two different people, one heartbeat, one destiny. Could music just be the answer they have been looking for? © 2011-2012 imperfectdreamer. All rights reserved. | Thank you for reading! :D

Set in the future, where the government controls everything, up to the day you die. They have your 'expiration date' tattooed on your foot the day you are born. So the minutes are ticking in your head, as you get closer and closer to your final breath. This is a story of Ellie; a girl who lives her life the government has given her with no complaints; this is the way things have always been, right? But then she meets Peter; a boy who questions athority, a boy that knows far more than he should. And he teaches Ellie of many extinct thing, including the one extinct emotion; Love.

Every fat girl is skinny…beneath all the extra weight. Holly knew that. She told it to herself each time her reflection in the mirror caught her eye. Instead of bursting into tears, she would tell this to herself. “Oink, Oink!” they would shout. “Here comes thunder-thighs!” or when worst came to worst: EARTHQUAKE!!!” they would scream while sprinting away as she walked by. But she would repeat it, holding back tears. Holly was only eight. She didn’t know the calories in a plate of cookies, fresh batch of brownies, tub of ice cream. She ate when she wanted to. But one day, she just stopped. And didn’t start again. She becomes skin and bones, but will always see herself as Heavy Holly.