Hello. I hope you are well. I came across your account through a comment you made in the Wattys book regarding chapters being posted after January 1, 2023.
The Wattys handler gave you appropriate feedback; nevertheless, they omitted the requirement that you have a narrative created of nor after January 1, 2023. If you started writing the book before that date, you would have to start again and publish the chapters before the Wattys, which usually happen in the summer. Approximately in July. They will claim that the first chapter of the book must be uploaded after January 2023, but this is not true. Many prospective contestants will not get a Wattys banner when the contest starts since their story was originally created before the guideline date. It sucks, but it is how they do it. My friend revised her story and updated her book after a certain period, but it was not eligible because the creation date indicated 2012. She garnered over 200K reads and received numerous votes, yet she chose to unpublish it because of the way the contest managed their rules. Just restart your book and leave the older draft in your drafts. The Wattys are focused on what is displayed and not anything in the drafts, even if the plot has one or more books with it.
