Joanna Penn from the creativepenn
declares that Wattpad is a good and useful tool for
authors and a great place to find readers. I saw one of her YouTube vids about
using the site and decided to sign up.
I have seen mentions of it on the news.
Most famously for a sixteen year old girl who wrote a One Direction fanfic being
offered a three book deal by a major publishing house because of her statistics.
Yes, really.
I have been a member of An archive
of our own (ao3) for a little while but have only been reading, when I got the
time, and leaving reviews for a few of my favourite authors who are not at
fanfiction any more. My post page was empty.
So, as an experiment, I posted ‘Wake
up and smell the coffee’ on both sites at the same time. It is my most popular
one-shot on fanfiction and has the ridiculous number of 122 reviews and 12,830
hits. They both allow uploads of banners and it has a nice banner that don’tcallmeleelee
made for it a little while ago.
Let’s see what Wattpad and Ao3 do
with it!
Here are the links for my page on each site: Wattpad
and A03.
My username at wattpad is mtramg;
you can load original works on the site and that is the point of the exercise,
so I hope no-one accuses me of plagiarising my own works of fanfiction. Bwahaha.
Most annoyingly, fanfiction is
blocking pings from external sites, so you used to be able to copy existing
works over with one click… but no more! Dammit. It will take me 78 days to load
them all if I do a story per day. AND chapter stories have to be loaded chapter
by chapter. Sigh…
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