My writing started near ten years ago as a way to take my mind of chronic pain and enjoy fan fiction my way. Even though my writing skills were very poor ,I used to get lots of encouragement from readers who enjoyed the story. I think my writing has improved over the years, though I still have much to learn. Getting a notification was exciting, reading comments and feeling motivated. However, since A.I and Wattpad allowing Spam and scam profiles offering artistic services, that notification is now depressing. I read comments suspiciously and see passive aggressive responses from.the spam scammers if I do not reply to their solicitation. I used to get likes on my writing and comments from readers that made me motivated to write more but now, I feel apathy when i realise its just a A.I spam scam comment. I used to like sharing my stories here but Wattpad has made it hard to want to post when they do nothing to stop the spam scam A.I comments that could be easily rectified if they tried. One way, would be to prevent new profiles from commenting until they have been on the site a month, read a number of books, added liked books to reading library and any mention of art services has their I.P banned. I genuinely read old comments to try and boost positivity and encourage myself to write, but lately, its become harder to care to post. I appreciate genuine comments but they are rare these days. Its sad to feel disenchanted with writing.
