Hello all!
I just thought I would post my thoughts here because I’ve seen this happen a lot and it’s happened to me before as a Wattpad writer. When someone starts a really good series, they want an update. Yes that’s true. But people who push and push writers for them to update, or say that they’re too slow to update it and that they’ll just take over the story for you and write it their way, those people either haven’t written a story with a plot that doesn’t have holes in it. I myself have never pressured any authors into updating or said I would take over the story and have it go my own way. Please understand that when there are slow updates, it just means we put our blood sweat and tears into this update. Some people are faster than others at creating plots and that’s fine. Update to your hearts desire. But some of us, we want to think the plot fully through and make sure we don’t have any holes. After thinking about the plot, then comes the writing. Some of us go through many many many drafts before we come to a final draft.
As someone who was obsessed with trying to update all the time on Wattpad back in the day, the feeling of being rushed, just drained me. I felt that if I wanted to produce the best content then I would need to spend more time on it. And it’s not like all of us have all of the free time in the world. Outside of writing we have school, jobs, family and friends to attend to.
I just thought I would share my thoughts on this.