Is Writing on Wattpad Worth It?
I've seen the question floating around the internet about whether or not Wattpad is actually a good place for aspiring writers to post their stories in hopes of someday being discovered and published and the answer that I usually see given is no. There is, as you might guess, a lot more to the answer than just that no. There's usually also an explanation about how not much is actually known about how much writer's make in the Wattpad Futures program, and how in interviews the writers for the Futures program have given, and in stories that have been written about the program, the answers on the actual amounts writers are paid is always left deliberately vague. Obviously I didn't take that advice, and honestly I have yet to regret sharing my writing on Wattpad. I'll start at the beginning, or at least the beginning for me. I've wanted to be a writer since around the third grade. I had other dreams too that got thrown in there, so sometimes I wanted to be a wri...