r/Wattpad

I am usually really active on this subreddit, but I am taking a break recently(due to problems and stuff). And then, my insta feed is full of wattpad banned smut and all that. So I was like fr? Cause smut romance is wattpad main way to get to popularity.

Read the new guidlines, nothing new. Check reddit, thousands and thousands of same posts. Check the pinned post, confirmed my doubts. Its just purely smut removed, like as before

And of course the subreddit is full of same posts again and again. Reminds me of the time, when wattpad gone down lol and the subreddit blow up.

So, welp just gonna continue my break but I mean wattpad moderation sucks, I have read stuff over there, that shouldn't be even allowed. But, out of nowhere accounts get banned, so yea anything can happen lol.

But still, those who are actually writing good stuff, with a well defined plot, this is the time to shine! So best of luck to everyone.

A lot of Ao3 users tend to hate wattpad users. I personally like using Wattpad and Ao3 but genuinely curious as to why ao3 users dislike wattpad users???

I need bts fic recs with fairy themes (small creatures). e.g. fairies, elves etc. angels will be fine too, I like it when they have feathers/wings.

I like rare pairs, poly relationships and long fics.
but doesn’t matter, I don’t care. anything is welcomed. (doesn’t have to be on theme or completed.)

e.g. uprise by kpopismydrug on ao3

I think this book has been removed because this is my 8th time re downloading wattpad so l could read it but this time l could not find it 😭 btw here is the information wattpad story called "temptation" about step father and daughter and the author also had another book call "His obsession" it wasnt called anything else and his obssestion was about the girl getting kidnapped by the guy and also one day they want to a club together in a car l think in his obsession the girl was named gen or something like that and btw l am not 100% sure it was by the same author but l am 60% sure and l want to find another book called Amour and l am not really sure about the story for this one because l was reading his temptation and Amour at the same time so l might recall the wrong thing for Amour but l remember the chapters for Amour was 30+ and l remember the girl losted someone close to her or something like that but it was romance and l recall something for either Amour or temptation but l am 90% it is the story for temptation) like a girl had a rich guy as her partner after l think she left the main character and she had baby with one of the guy (forgot if it was the rich guy or the main character's baby) but after that the baby had "died" but after years the kid wasn't actually dead but the kid had been trained by the rich guy who was actually bad so after the girl found out what the bad guy did to her baby the main character (the step dad) went the secret place to save the kid who had grown up and also had been through a lot and afterwards l remember a scene where the mother of the girl and the real dad of the girl had their own girlfriend and boyfriend but not sure either they got close or they had their new partners (also btw for temptation the mother of the girl realized her new partner liked her daughter so l think they broke up or divorced or something like that so in the end the step dad and daughter got together and technical the step dad is not her step dad anymore but l will call him that because l don't recall his name) and the kid ended up being the main character in "his obsession" where he was a mafia or something like that because of his past where he got kidnapped by the rich guy. Now l am not really sure about the story of Amour but l remember the cover and ldk if it was called mi Amour or just Amour but l remember it having 30+ chapters and both temptation and Amour has at least 1k users voting it so if anyone find my description similar please help me find it 🫰😭

Alright, so I've seeing the recent hostility towards the new guidelines of Wattpad somehow banning smut, and I just laugh when I see most ppl panicking. I dare a Wattpad user to check up the books the app is promoting and try to check whether sex scenes are included OF COURSE THERE ARE!

It's simply, no plot, no smut I don't think anyone should find that hard, all Wattpad is encouraging is, know what you're writing don't center stories on sensitive topics without letting Wattpad understand where you're going with that topic they're NOT ENTIRELY BANNING SMUT! it's kinda like a precaution...btw who needs smut to enjoy a book?

Also part of this, they're trying to clear that "Wattpad is for smut" image they've always had, jus to make their app more reliable and family friendly (I think) although nowadays book apps are using the "sex sells" to give their apps traction, but it's what puts ppl off or puts them on depends on their audience.

But here's my take what do y'all think

BRUHH i’m gonna cry, for real. i went to fix things and make life easier for myself and accidentally dug an endless void instead.

long-ahh story short, i got access to my old icloud account and decided to put all my story ideas in one place. so i logged into icloud, ms word, google docs, everything and combined all the story ideas i’ve cooked throughout my entire life (multiple genres). some only had the main concept, others had actual plot points written out and some even had chapters with whole storylines summarized into a few pages.

AND IT TURNS OUT I HAVE THIRTY-FREAKING-THREE BOOKS. THIRTY. THREE. i could write all of them, BUT HOW???!!

it does lowkey make sense. i got into writing (and coming up with stories) around 11 or 12 and it’s been like YEARS. a lot of it was super cringe, obviously, but a little editing and revision can turn trash into something not-trash.

like i tried writing a comedy (back in 2015-16 maybe) about how a girl goes to a new town and she gets mistaken as someone else who died (plot twist was that the girl wasn’t dead) and some guys decide to make her live as the dead girl to find out what happened to her. and i liked the idea so much that i could turn it into a thriller-romance now instead of cringe-comedy.

BUT THE QUESTION IS: HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHICH BOOK TO WRITE FIRST?!! WHAT IF I DIE BEFORE I CAN WRITE EVERYTHING DOWN???

and the problem with an overactive imagination (thank you dysfunctional childhood) is that NEW story ideas keep invading my brain and i CANNOT ignore them!!! i feel so devastatingly overwhelmed. i cannot keep all these ideas to myself (no matter how unhinged and wild some of them are). UGHH WHY IS LIFE SOOOO CRUEEEL? howls into the full moon

tldr: how many drafts do you guys actually have? like story ideas or plots you guys haven’t written yet? how do you deal with incomplete books?

So I'm currently trying to learn how to use A03 since I would love more fanfics options but I don't know how can I look for something like especially I want a clean work with no s*x or anything like that, a clean work is there a tag that can help me find this kind of works?

I’m writing an AU in which the characters primarily communicate through phone calls and messages throughout the story. They have a friends with benefits arrangement, so there are mature and sexually suggestive conversations between them, including references to intimate or “naughty” photos being sent.

However, I would not include or upload any actual explicit images. Within the story, I would only write something such as “sent a photo” without showing or explicitly describing the photo itself. The character would then respond to the implied photo with sexually suggestive (dirty talk) even though the contents of the photo are never shown or described.

Would this type of content be allowed under Wattpad’s current content guidelines? I’d like to make sure I understand the rules correctly before publishing. Thank you for clarifying!

I have started working on my dream book and i wanna publish it soon but i realized wattpad is not as active anymore. Is a03 more active or wattpad? Where do you guys spend the most time in?

Hey everyone! I too used to be a lover of FanfictionNet and I know there's not as many spaces to do this anymore. Sure there AO3, Deviantart, Wattpad, and Quotev, but they all also have their own issues. So, I'm wanting to launch a new app specifically for fanfiction. So, I've come here to ask the things that fanfiction writers would want in an app. So please share the things that are available now (On FFNet or other sites) that you like, the things that you hate, and the things that you think would be very helpful.

Eight months ago someone reported my fic unfairly because it has a plot and the characters have a previous story in another fanfic and previous lore, so I sent a new ticket yesterday thanks to the advice of Wattpad ambassador Lovelyemperess in another post -very special thanks to her ^_^ - and today evening is restored. And I wrote this new request in spanish and somebody answered me in spanish, thank you so much again to Lovelyemperess and Wattpad team.

I need stories where the FL is actually dominant Like she has the upper hand, knows what she wants, and isn't afraid to put the ML in his place. I want the romance to be DARK too, morally gray characters, all that good stuff. Basically, I want the FL to be the one everyone should be scared of lmaooo. Drop your recs!!

Hello

I'm commenting on this as a Wattpad user since 2013

I too am unhappy with Wattpad's new regulations regarding certain content, which was free on the old Wattpad. Although I don't understand their new changes, I accept them to some extent since the app/page was created for youth/young adult content. There are other options for reading mature content with more freedom, but all of them also have rules regarding adult characters for certain topics.

So my suggestion is, since I'm also part of Ao3 and I think it's messed up that those who move from here are causing a ruckus when they don't even read the rules and the allowed content in Ao3or look for tutorials to block certain tags or content that they don't like or accept, Ao3 was created specifically as an archive for fanfics, but aside from that it was created to circumvent the literary censorship of most countries Therefore, voluntary donations of money are made periodically to continue supporting the project for its maintenance and updating.

I'm not scolding anyone or anything like that, just expressing my opinion as a user of both platforms

If you no longer like Wattpad's rules, you can look for other sites/apps that accept freedom in mature content such as Booknet, Quotev, Fanfiction.net, inkitt, etc,

2. Learn how to use Ao3 if you want to stay on that platform without bothering people to download content that is allowed there.

Or they could do the same as the creators of Ao3: create a site similar to Wattpad with the freedom we lost, and accept donations for maintenance, updates, and all that, so we can have what we wanted. We want to, I repeat, understand the frustration of the changes, but I feel that as adults, most of us should be reasonable and not attack fanfiction allowed on different platforms.