HarryPotterWeirdo
Hi people,
Just a quick message saying that I am very seriously considering deleting wattpad as no one reads my stories and I don’t even read on this app anyomore.
Thoughts?
HarryPotterWeirdo
HarryPotterWeirdo
Hey no one:
It would mean a lot to me if you spent 5 minutes checking out one or both of my little stories. I have just started them and due to the fact that popularity is perception, if my books are perceived to be popular then they will become popular. Ya know, no one wants to read a book with 6 reads, 2 likes and 3 comments.
cyridia
@HarryPotterWeirdo Continued Also because it’s on wattpad, I’m not expecting perfection since many people are just starting to write out but I’m here because I see so many promises of great and creative stories and I hope to be entertained. I also have thousands of kindle books to read so my time is split between the two sites. I love to see how many variations can be made of the same story and how creative people can get. I have been surprised many times by what the authors came up with, as I would not have thought of moving the story that way. I also notice that people use a lot of more keywords to draw readers in. You may want to consider that once you decide which way your story goes. Right now I’m studying all these things so that when I finally decide to write my own I can be more successful. Sadly I was not able to participate in nanowrimo this year also, since school interfeared, but I will try again next year. I just have to work more on my plot, which for me is the hardest part right now. Hope you continue yours and I’ll come back to read it when you add an update. Good luck.
cyridia
@HarryPotterWeirdo You’re right, the changes you made or spacing does not affect people’s understanding of the story. But you want to do everything you can to make sure they get pulled into it and stay there. People are busy. If there’s anything that is confusing, or hard to understand they leave and move on to another story. You are competing with hundreds of other books. You want to make sure you have a great description to pull them to your book. It does not have to give them the entire plot but to get them interested in your specific story and how it can make them escape from their busy and boring life, and also how is your different from all the other ones on the same topic. I’m no expert in writing, but I read a minimum of 1 book a day. I have also read tons of books on how to write a story. As soon as finish school (in December) I hope to start writing my own. I know it’s much harder than I originally though but I will give it a go. If a story has an interesting description, I’ll try to tough it out and continue reading a little more even if there’s something lacking. There were several books, I have skipped pages, just hoping that the story would pick up and have better descriptions, or conversation or even some action. After several tries, I just gave up and moved on.
HarryPotterWeirdo
@cyridia please see the above comment. Update: I have corrected the spacing issue and in one case I think I added a few extra sentences, you may or not choose to re read the chapters to see the change. It will not effect your understanding of the story if you chose not to read these parts. Again, thank you :)