We Can't All Be Overnight Successes
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If you've ever wished you could go back to the moment you decided to become a Wattpad writer, it's to do either one of the two:
1. Either to pat yourself on the back for putting yourself out there because your story took off with the wind....
OR
2. To hit yourself over the head with a frying pan because well...you don't know why the fuck you did that to yourself. Because in addition to coping with the usual stuff like writer's block and the like, you also have to deal with the fuckery of gaining reads as quickly as Jupiter goes round the fucking sun.
Well have no fear...
Wait, did you think I was going to bippity boppity boo you into blowing up?
Ha, don't we all wish?
Just my two cents on what it feels like being a new/struggling writer on Wattpad...and a little advice here and there.
We can't all be overnight successes...BUT...
...well, read and find out.
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