Your thoughts on Wattpad and/or Tablo?

@KRWright KR
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:45:30 +0000

@KRWright wrote:

Wattpad is a mixed bag - it's the largest platform for sure - but it also doesn't have very good monetization options and it can take years to get noticed unless you somehow get lucky, get featured, or get nominated for a Watty. The community for LGBT writers and readers is very very awesome and I love all the friends I made there, but since the tagging system overtook the genres system, fanfic has become king over there. It can be hard to establish a fanbase and promotions in the clubs (i.e. the forums) is basically banned outside a few threads so you have to rely on luck and word -of-mouth/previously established author platform.

That being said - if you manage to crack the Wattpad Code, as it were, there's tons of opportunities for writers over there and there can be tons of exposure. Plenty of writers have gone on to be published from Wattpad an the big 5 do trawl the site looking for the Next Big Thing.

But yeah... Mixed bag I'd say.