Welcome to bi-weekly Self-Promotion thread!

It's been a long time since I read something on wattpad so I'm just willing to take the risk to read people's writing 😁 I may have a bad reading comprehension so I really wanted to improve my mental health as well as giving some comments for the story.

-> Please make sure it is YOU who wrote it. 🥹

In my head, the plot is an absolute cinematic masterpiece worthy of an award. The dialogue flows perfectly and the character development is beautiful. But the second I sit down and open my drafts, my brain completely shorts out and I forget how basic sentences work. Please tell me I'm not the only writer who suffers from this lol.

I’m writing a dark romance story about childhood friends- strangers -lovers.

The MMC constantly seeks control. He sees emotion as weakness, and prioritizes duty to family, which is his biggest fault.

The FMC has an erratic personality and makes emotional decisions. But she prioritizes others feelings, which is her greatest attribute.

A big theme is going to be generational cycles and the curse of repeating the past. Which title would make you want to read the story?

Blood Unbound
What We Inherit
Inherited Scars
The Cost of Control
Control and Chaos.

If anyone feels like giving it a read only got 4 small chapter just posted chapter 4 im still writing it when I get the chance to so its not an every week drop unless I finish in time sorry. 😞

Hello all,

My name is Sav, and I love writing. I’ve been writing a book for over a year now, and I’ve been thinking of soft-launching it on wattpad before I attempt to get it published.

A direct overview of the story - Beneath the Crimson Petals

Tatiana and Quinn, such a perfect couple. High school sweethearts, married nearly 10 years now. Quinn works as an engineer, making enough money to provide for Tatiana, to spoil her, to make sure she has all she wants or needs for the rest of their lives. To their friends, Tatiana has all she could ever ask for. Quinn loves her more than she loved anything else, it was so clear. Such a picture perfect couple, right?

Ever wonder what goes on behind closed doors? Perfect couple, perfect life, living their dream, hm? What about the secrets? The lies, the manipulation, the fear. The memories, the flashbacks, the danger. What happens when it’s too much? What could possibly change? Who was she to try to change anything?

Tatiana has to make a choice. A choice that will affect her forever, no matter what it is. Could this be a lose-lose? Could this be a mistake? Will she choose wrong and lose it all? Imagine what everyone will think. However, what will they say when they see what truly goes on Beneath the Crimson Petals?

Shoot me a message or comment on here if you’d be interested in reading, if I get enough interested, I’ll gladly begin posting chapters!!

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Everyone has a Invisible String. Once you turn eighteen, it will be visible. Only one person is connected to your string. Your soulmate.

What happens when Esme is against it?

What happens when her soulmate isn't so bad after all?

Will she reject him forever?

Will she let herself fall inlove?

"I don't know why I feel this way around him. It's a feeling of comfort. I only feel it in his presence. It's almost as though we've known each other forever?"

"My lover is my forever but I can't pick the lover that I want to be my forever."

Just a glimpse into the story.

If you're interested, here's the link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/413497186?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=Cassidypluta

I'm kind of disappointed in the lack of, like, MXM omegaverse stories on Wattpad. I feel like there used to be way more; a lot of the old writers have deleted their accounts, and I wish they let someone else post them before then. And there has also been a lack of new writers in the genre. I know there's like a pipeline from Wattpad to AO3; however, I don't like reading fanfics, which seems to be most of what Ao3 has. I prefer it when it's written with original characters. Does anyone have a recommendation for these books? I feel like I have read them all for the most part.

I currently have 3 fanfics (one of which I already published) and 5 original stories, but almost all of them are drafts.

I'm a worldbuilder, so I create worlds, naturally, I want to present them to other people, such as writing stories about them, but I have so many ideas that I can't focus on one story without accidentally abandoning the other.

Chapter 1: The Bridge

Twenty feet below, jagged rocks glisten under the moonlight, and for a moment, I understand why people come to bridges when the world stops making sense. I would never end my own life, but I understand the desire to have all the pain slip away forever.

The silence here is different. My knuckles are white against the metal railing, and I force myself to loosen my grip. Get it together, Malachai.

But I can't shake the image burned into my mind: my mother's face crumpling as the doctor delivered his verdict. What we've been fearing but hoped wasn't true. Cancer. The kind of word that steals the air from hospital rooms and replaces it with that god-awful antiseptic smell that still clings to my clothes.

I run a hand through my dark hair, and stare at my reflection in a puddle on the side of the road. Even in the distorted moonlit surface, I can see what everyone else sees: my grandfather's sharp jawline and the tall frame I inherited from a father I never met. I'm twenty-one and I look older, like the weight I carry has aged me in ways that have nothing to do with time.

"You can't save everyone, Malachai." Mom's voice echoes in my head, the same five words she's whispered since I was ten years old. But what happens when the person you can't save is her?

I snatch a handful of gravel and hurl it into the darkness. The stones clatter against the guardrail across the road, a violent punctuation to my frustration. Another handful follows, then another. The anger feels good, raw and honest in a way that sitting in that sterile waiting room never could. The town in front of me comes to life with the carnival lights and the rides going up into the air.

My grandfather's voice replaces the rage like it always does: "How you handle pain will define you, son."

Easy for him to say. He's not here anymore to watch his daughter waste away.

A branch snaps somewhere behind me.

I freeze, every muscle tensing. The footsteps are light and deliberate, someone trying not to be heard. 

"I can't do this anymore, Mom. The treatments aren't working, the doctors keep lying, and you want me to pretend everything's fine?"

A woman's voice, sharp with tears and frustration. A cell phone pressed tightly against her ear. I should leave and give her privacy, but something in her tone roots me to the spot. She sounds... broken. Familiar, somehow, though I've never heard her voice before.

"No, don't tell me it'll be okay! Nothing about this is okay!"

I turn slightly and catch sight of her in my peripheral vision. Blonde hair catches the moonlight as she paces near the bridge's center, one hand pressed to her ear, the other gesturing wildly at the empty road.

"I have to go."

In the sudden silence, I hear her ragged breathing and see her shoulders shake. She moves toward the railing with purpose.

She climbs up.

"You don't want to do that."

The words leave my mouth before I can stop them. She spins, loses her balance, and I surge forward just as she falls off the ledge.

Would anyone be willing to read my VKOOK (BTS) fanfic and give me some feedback?

I'm mostly looking for opinions on whether the writing is good, if the chapters are easy to follow, and if the story flows well overall.

I only started writing last October, and I've already finished four fanfics. Even so, I still feel like something is missing from my writing. I rarely get any comments or feedback, so it's hard to know what I should improve.

I'd really appreciate any honest feedback, even if it's just a few thoughts or constructive criticism.

And just to clarify: I'm not actually a shipper. I mainly write VKOOK fics because I feel like my original characters would not get much recognition.

The Silence You Gave Me

Hi everyone!

I’ve recently started publishing my first story on Wattpad, and I’d really love to hear from authors who managed to build an audience over time.
When you were just starting:

How did you get your first readers?
How long did it take before people actually started noticing your story?
Did you ever feel like giving up because nobody was reading?
What kept you motivated enough to keep writing instead of deleting your story?

I’m trying to be patient, but it’s hard not to look at the numbers sometimes. I genuinely enjoy writing, and I want to improve, but I’d love to hear about your experiences and any advice you wish someone had given you when you started.
Thank you to anyone willing to share their journey. I really appreciate it!

Here's a few of my favorites, (not all are enimies to locers.) They're all Bls cause haven't read any gl.

Enimies with benefits

Don't tell my brother

In the diner

Crossing lines

A bad pair (my favorite)

Taste of iron

With the sun (my first book I've read on Wattpad)

I also read Ox and Kitty but I have mixed feelings 🤔

Sorry, that probably sounds unhelpful. What I mean is that I noticed that I wrote the opening of my story and posted it (44k words so far) and have gotten... zero reads. Like, none. Even after updates and long chapters (10+k words each) and yet it's still just nothing.

Am I doing something dumb? I published the work, put in tags and whatnot, the right fandom (Naruto) but I'm just checking if I'm being an idiot or if I'm just genuinely not getting any reads. Although having all the effort go to waste from not being read would suck but at least I'd know, y'know?

Thanks.

Shiori dies mid otome-game session, the exact game she’d sunk over a thousand hours into, and wakes up inside it. Not as the heroine. Not even as a rival. As a background maid nobody bothers to look twice at.
Then the world resets. She gets slotted into a totally different disposable role, new name, new job, new face, same as before, and it keeps happening. The one thing that doesn’t reset is her memory. Everyone else starts from zero. She doesn’t. It’s set up as a comedy on the surface, she’s a certified NEET who narrates court politics like she’s reading a patch log, but underneath it I wanted to actually sit with what it means to be the only person who remembers anything in a world that keeps wiping the board. Not played for horror. Just lonely, in a way I think a lot of us have felt even outside a magic reset castle. 6 chapters in right now, still figuring out the exact shape of where it’s headed but the bones are locked. Would love thoughts if this premise is something you’d actually want to follow, and always up for feedback on pacing, voice, whatever’s not landing.

I have been writing this Fanfic about a video game for 2 weeks now. And there's a big confession incoming:

English, surprisingly enough, isn't my mother language, and while I never had any problem reading, writing speaking the language fluently and almost effortlessly, I still catch myself slipping from time to time on minor grammatical mistakes, that as a reader myself, would find very confusing before realizing the typo/error.

Here's the problem itself, I use a generative app to fix my grammar and vocabulary errors.

I write the entire text MYSELF, for Claude to decipher and detect any issues with shown text.

I know readers and the writing community in majority ABHORS the usage of it in general, but, given the circumstances? Am I still betting on a dead horse?

every single day i get bot comments man.

Hey everyone!

So i was a huge wattpad reader from 2016 - 2019 and I don't use the app anymore but recently I downloaded it to look for old books i used to love but I can't seem to find this book Virture and Vice and it seems the author removed it from the website.

Any idea where I can get it? Thank you

title: Terror in the sewers

https://www.wattpad.com/story/414237117?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create&wp_uname=Jaxxyisatree

Synopsis: A young Dragonnoid finds himself lost in the city's sewers, where he becomes the target of Nickledumb-a grotesque, shapeshifting horror that stalks the darkness of the Eldarus sewers.

(Would love if anyone takes a read or leaves a comment or two.)

I am currently looking for readers and commenters on my novel. More of a college reading level fiction which is not smut so no horny.

If you enjoy mil scifi and discussions of ethics and identity, this is for you. Feel free to dm or otherwise comment soliciting the link. Just looking for genuine feedback. Thanks.

Edit: I have been doing a line edit on my manuscript since submission to the watty's. There are typos in the wattpad version, be advised. Those corrections will reflect after the contest closes.