hello! Now, as many of you are aware, I am only too qualified to be writing about this subject seeing as how I've written oceans and oceans of books on wattpad.
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This is, of course, a lie. I've written only one proper book since the six-something years I've been here, and that too one that took me almost as many years to write and one I'm not entirely happy with. So I won't argue that I'm not the most reliable source when it comes to book-writing advice, but for the next twenty minutes, let's pretend I am.
So let's get right into it: writing a book isn't easy. It's a lot of fun, sometimes, but it's a lot of damned hard work, and writing one on wattpad is a whole other kettle of fish. I know nothing about book-writing, very little about literature, too little about grammar and plot-lining and marketing and all those things that make a book so good. I don't pretend to be an expert nor some wand-wielding magician, and I won't pretend like my book (the only one I've written so far) is magnificent in any way, shape or form.
But even though I am not all these things, I have written a book. A rather large, drawn out, shape-shifting monstrous thing. It took me five years and a lot of soul to crank out. So any advice I give you is merely from my own personal experience on wattpad and honestly nothing you should take too seriously.
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You see, many of us writing here are not otherwise writers by profession (else we wouldn't be here heuheu) but you know what I mean. We aren't professional writers. We write because it's fun, because it's our passion, or a hobby we long abandoned, or a hidden treasure we keep locked away from friends. Most of us may want to be published some time in the future, as fanatical or impossible a dream as that may be, and wattpad is a safe space where it's easy to make mistakes and be less than perfect.
I repeat: make mistakes and be less than perfect.
Here's a list of Things I Wish I Knew When I Joined Wattpad (alternatively titled: Things I Want to Tell Baby Wattpad Writers or Things That Would've Saved Me a Whole Lot of Blood, Sweat and Tears had I Known Them Earlier or Nice Things to Know That Might Make Living Easier).
