A rant book of things that Wattpad writers do that I find annoying and pointless. Plus topics that need to be spoken about and brought to people's attention.
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Every now and then I get bored and check out promotion books. Usually its regular users, all commenting about their books hoping to get some growth.
But on occasion, I'll see a comment by a person offering to recommend other platforms or offer publishing deals. They're usually something along the lines of this:
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Sorry if the screenshots are crusty/hard to read, Wattpad lowers image quality.
These comments are usually all some variation of a copy-paste thing, but these are actually real users who often have stuff on their accounts, they're not bots. So that's also why I blurred their usernames. Sometimes they directly message people first, some of my friends have been approached about deals too.
Anyway, I'm a Curious George of a bitch and I like to message these people pretending to be interested and go along with it, just to get details about what they're offering. So I decided to message this person saying "hey, I saw your comment and I'm interested in learning more about these other writing platforms." This isn't a new interaction that I just had, its a bit old now but I'm showing it as an example of how these people work.
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No, these are not good publishing deals at all. Especially given how funky the sites are; those numbers are possible maybe but you wouldn't actually get them. Readict says $10k but a company representative actually said it ranges from $300 up to $10k, you're more likely to get the 300 bucks and a $100 bonus instead. But, to someone who just writes on wattpad and doesn't know anything about writing contracts, seeing an opportunity to make money on your little story is a very appealing deal.
I decided to google Fictum just to see for myself and found this article:
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