Hi, I'm new to this website and in the process of jumping ship from Wattpad.
Any other Wattpaders in the same boat? Post your links and stuff so we can find each other!
Jan '21
Jan '21
Oh yeah I bailed from WP a couple months ago. Welcome to Tapas! 
The community here is amazing.
Here’s the novel I’ve been working on if you’re interested:
I am trying Tapas since August to see what will go here. I would say that genre preferences here are narrower than on Wattpad, it has to hit the genre more precisely to get the readers, but it is easier to make connections, and, if you find a vibe with the demographics, it is far, far easier to get genuine readers/be seen.
Unfortunately, Sci-Fi or Mystery genres do not have readership on either platform, so you will have to look for friends with your story by the way it looks. Also, note that on Tapas, you can’t move chapters around, so if those Act 1 and Act 2 are placeholders for your content, you will have to delete Act 2 one for it to fall into its proper place after the chapters of Act 1.
Tapas algorithm favours active readers over subscribers, so you are actually better off when people who do not read and vote on your book unsub from your story. Smaller but active sub base is better than large and dead one
It’s a bit like what King said in Misery, one can write two kinds of books, good ones and bestsellers. I guess, i just wish i could write the bestsellers, lol...
Welcome. As a fellow sci-fi writer, my audience has been much better at Tapas than Wattpad. Can't wait to check out your work.
I agree with that last part. I pander to no one lol. So far, Tapas is more my jam than how chunky Wattpad could feel at times. And I always favor reads over votes and subs; more genuine feedback and readers who read, because they want to read, imagine that!
I just came to Tapas about a week ago, and I've already got a heck of a lot more attention on my stories than I have on Wattpad in the past three months, and it's just so much better here with this community. 
Check it out if it piques your interest. The main character has a sloth too.
Welcome! While I'm still on Wattpad, I've been spending a lot more time here on Tapas and enjoying the platform so much better. It's even encouraged me to commission artists to draw my own characters, something I never would've done had I remained only on Wattpad. The only thing I really use Wattpad for now is editing, as there are some great reviewers on there. But I've found the community to be more welcoming here.
I'll definitely give your story a read, as it looks really interesting. Feel free to check out either of my mysteries novels too.
Oh my god, I jumped shark from Wattpad just a little while ago! Username on the was BrightNeko lol. Tapas's community is a lot better than Wattpad's, it's so nice and welcoming~
Here's the novel I've been working on, I hope people enjoy it!
I have a novel on wattpad, which I consider to be pretty bad, but then looking at much of the other writing there it actually looks well-written, which is scary. The novels I've checked out on tapas seem to generally be of a higher quality. Neither seems like a great platform for new creators to be seen, but at least tapas still has forums for connecting to one another.
I find that on Tapas I at least have a fighting chance to be seen except in BL, with the Fresh section. In BL, no matter when I post, there is always like 5-7 books over the top of mine immediately.
The rest is genre preference that is very narrow here, with romance being second to BL and fantasy the third, and fantasy readers just don’t read many books, they stick to a few big ones.
Other genres, one might as well not bother on Tapas, there is just no readers checking them. And you have to hit the genre conventions very accurately, because blending genre too much will end up with a book being ignored.
I post on both here and Wattpad, but Tapas is leagues better when it comes to getting attention. The community is so much easier to get involved with too, and is a lot friendlier towards original work. In a sea of fanfiction, it's nice to see a site that promotes OC's (not that there's anything wrong with fanfics, but you all understand what I mean).
Anyway, my series is actually a collection of short stories. They're all meant to be able to stand on their own, so you don't have to read one to understand any others. They do interlace though, so there's enough self-reference later on to make it worthwhile. The first story is Finding Work, which is already dropped, and the second is The Shopkeeper, which drops on Friday. Check it out below!
While romance and BL are definitely very popular, I wouldn't go as far to say other genres have no chance here. Having your story in a genre that's less common can be a bit beneficial too, as you're likely to stay on the page that advertises for something like sci-fi, mystery, or horror. Meanwhile, romance and BL are more likely to just get swept up in the rest unless you have something that really sticks out among the others. Not to say those stories of popular genres won't do well either, as they surely will on here, but I feel like everyone has a chance if they put effort into it. Being active with the community seems to be the best way to earn readers, regardless of genres, in my experience.
In my experience, Romance was awesome for me. Just awesome. Far better than BL, but of course people are starting to move BL into Rom now, understandably.
We really need Paranormal as a genre here, imo. It has a chance to do well, particularly with the rumour that vampires are alive again.
I seem to do a bit better in Fantasy than in BL with the same book, because despite the romance being front and centre, it just didn’t hit the right BL notes, whatever they are, may the writing gods give me the revelation, and the sooner the better, lol. Gosh, if you hit BL right, oh gosh... that’s where the readers are! Like the actual living breathing readers wanting to read your book... argh, BL is sooo hard. (Hits her head on the wall)
My same book could climb pretty high in Drama, but it didn’t attract readers despite being high on popular and trending.
I read a few Sci-Fi books on here to support the genre, decent space operas, and I wanna cry because they don’t get much reads at all. 🥲 like, I came on the net to pretty much write Sci-Fi, and I gave up after one book. People love writing Sci-Fi on line, but just don’t like reading it or something. I had such bad experiences with trying to get people to read Sci-Fi, even organize the Sci-Fi writers... ouch. Just so sad.
Slice of Life seems to sort of be alive, but it’s such a capture-all genre, so I dunno what to even make of it.
Action is actually not that bad? Kindda-sorta? Maybe worth a shot?
The other genres by browsing the new books in Fresh just have such tiny readerships, that I am guessing very few people check Fresh section in them. And Fresh is how the new writers gets seen here.
Mystery is the one thing that people read in print pretty steadily, but have not much interest on-line. Like, why? Who knows. Probably takes too much actual familiarity with law enforcement to write a believable one, and most folks who write online are not professional detectives or lawyers...
Hello Wattpadien refugees, it will be more than 2 years since I left the platform. Does it matter?
And if I may allow myself this is my job:
tapas.io/series/Only-simple-shapes
I am still posting on Wattpad, but ever since they took down the forum on Wattpad, I really don't go on the site anymore....
here is my main book:
I don't want it to die, I just want somebody to cut the fat off that website! I've met so many cool people there; but that comes with a slew of bad review shops and questionable uploads.
