Briefly poked at Wattpad

[alias_sqbr]

I had to make a Wattpad account to read something and decided to try out posting something, because I needed a distraction(*). It's a site for posting fiction, with a lot of teenagers writing self insert RPF romances. I settled on Wedding Is Destiny since Pride and Prejudice femslash never goes out of style and it can just sit there to be stumbled upon whenever someone happens to want some.

You can post original stories and charge money for them, and there's also some kinda cute features for adding character notes and stuff to help with the writing process. It's very clean and brightly coloured, posting stories feels easy and light which I can see people finding encouraging.

It's moderately easy to use, certainly compared to fanfiction.net, though there didn't seem to be a html option so I cut and pasted the Rich Text from the AO3. It also has WAY less info on each story than Fanfiction.net or AO3, making finding stories nearly as opaque as searching tumblr tags. There's probably tricks to it I'm missing, though.

If you're curious, here's the three versions: Ao3, Fanfiction.net, Wattpad.

I have had ZERO VIEWS so far lol. Everyone seems to do covers there so I chucked one together haphazardly. As you can see, graphic design really isn't my passion, but eh, noone's going to read it anyway.

I don't know if I'll bother cross posting anything else. My main motivation is to help anyone thinking "I wish someone had written X" and am not sure what I write is what people there are likely to be looking for. I've written a few tropey romances but not for fandoms anyone's much into these days, especially not young people. I was curious to know what it was like to post to, and now I know!

(*)From my toilet breaking and me needing to wrangle a plumber. Yes, great timing, amiright? It's all fixed now, but it was good to have something mindless to do like cutting and pasting chapters.

Comments

[winterbird]

Yay! Be interesting to see what happens over there? :D

I looked into Wattpad for a while but their TOS are really restrictive re content which rules out pretty much all of my stuff, so I never bothered (a lot of people ignored the rules, but as with fanfiction.net, that means their accounts can be suspended/banned at any moment with no opportunity for redress).

And oh god, the toilet breaking and needing a plumber (Glen's car battery just died and he's called the RAC). Sean, do you think we need to go directly to the Universe and give it a stern talking to at this point? I can go there on our behalf. <3

[pebblerocker]

Oh gosh I should read this story again, but on Ao3 where I can set a better background colour than glaring white and where there won't be silly share buttons hanging by the side of the words as I scroll. Your writing is so good that I read nine or ten paragraphs in that awful interface without being able to stop, even with the distractions!

[alias_sqbr]

That's a lovely compliment! I hoped you managed to escape :)

[pebblerocker]

or I could read it on my Kobo, where it's been since you wrote it :)

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, most of my stuff is pretty tame and even I feel a bit paranoid on fanfiction.net. That and you can't trust the html to not randomly break :/

[alias_sqbr]

:D