Haven't been able to get my mused revved to write this morning. I've completed two potential WOTF stories in the last month (totaling 26K, now slimmed to 22K) and I am receiving mixed crits on both with many appreciated comments....but I'm just not in the mood for tackling any further revisions today.
Instead, I've been researching authors' websites and how I may design one that may suit my needs (I've kindly had a few...just a few...requests regarding "my" nonexistent author website), and I came across the young (I mean young) and talented 22year old Penguin imprint author Jessica Khory's website: http://www.jessicakhoury.com/#
She uses W!X despite its inaccessibility by mobile platforms. Searching her site, I found a page listing her short stories ( http://www.jessicakhoury.com/#!short-stories/cg6j )with links to Wattpad. On Wattpad, they may be read for free.
I find it interesting that a published author would use such a site where stories are offered for free. I presume this is done to widen their visibility and readership, attract readers to their for-pay works, as well as get direct feedback.
On Wattpad, I noticed some stories, serials, and novels by unknowns have over one million reads! This impressed me.
To my unapprenticed eye, Wattpad appears to be a YouTube for writers and readers. owever, I don't know if any author there has been catapulted to traditional publication, or had increase in their own website hits/indie sales.
I thought I would share this with those here who may have interest. It's amazing what oine finds on the web.
Okay...let's see if I can write something new today. For my audience of one.
Respectfully, Dr. Bob
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On Wattpad, I noticed some stories, serials, and novels by unknowns have over one million reads! This impressed me.
I've tried wattpad, but so far I'm not that impressed with my results. You can find me here.
However, you need to take that one million reads with a grain of salt, because of the way wattpad counts.
Say someone puts up a novel with 50 chapters and attracts 100 readers who read all 50 chapters. Wattpad counts that as 5,000 reads, but it's actually only 100 distinct readers.
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Leave it to Meredith to know...all sorts of stuff. That's like, useful and clarifies stuff and stuff.
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On Wattpad, I noticed some stories, serials, and novels by unknowns have over one million reads! This impressed me.
I've tried wattpad, but so far I'm not that impressed with my results. You can find me here.
However, you need to take that one million reads with a grain of salt, because of the way wattpad counts.
Say someone puts up a novel with 50 chapters and attracts 100 readers who read all 50 chapters. Wattpad counts that as 5,000 reads, but it's actually only 100 distinct readers.
Hi, Meredith. Looking at your page it seems your work has been read/accessed 2000 times. Even if only a fraction of that amount are individual readers, that is a good start in my humble naive opinion.
How does this compare with your "hits/sales" at Smashwords, for example? Or to your website?
Anyway, it seems a reasonable platform for new authors to trial work and potentially get feedback and attention.
Respectfully, Dr. Bob
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quote: I find it interesting that a published author would use such a site where stories are offered for free
I don't, as this is brilliant marketing. I used to be semi-active on a critiquing website, but it quickly became apparent that it was basically a way for the maker of the site to sell his and his friends' writing. This doesn't upset me, per say, and I would have probably stayed on the site if their critiquing system wasn't so user unfriendly. Too much effort to deal with too buggy a site for too small a results.
I have to admit, though, something seems a bit connish about how this is phrased on Wattpad's site:
quote: Our readers spend over 2 billion minutes on Wattpad every month.
Two billion minutes? I wonder why she didn't just go for 12,00,00,00,00,00 seconds, which sounds even more impressive.
But ah well, it's worth checking out.
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quote:Originally posted by Denevius: I have to admit, though, something seems a bit connish about how this is phrased on Wattpad's site:
quote: Our readers spend over 2 billion minutes on Wattpad every month.
Two billion minutes? I wonder why she didn't just go for 12,00,00,00,00,00 seconds, which sounds even more impressive.
But ah well, it's worth checking out.
I suspect the average reader spends "minutes" and not seconds consuming a story, and that very few spend hours. Therefore I suspect the site is set-up to automatically note time spent in minutes.
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