RESOURCES: Learn From These Wattpad Authors

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With more than 100 critiques under my belt, I've encountered everything. And a lot of those everythings are pretty interesting. All authors have strengths and weaknesses; no one is perfect. But a lot of those strengths outshines the strengths of others and deserves some clear recognition. You, as a writer, might not like to read the works of others, but simply put, you cannot learn if not by example. I don't know these authors personally. I don't endorse them, and no, I am not telling you their works are stellar (please see Recommendations Page for that). I'm telling you they have a talent that you can benefit from studying and you do that by seeing how they work. I'll add to this now and then, but keep a look out for the updates and come back often to see some great skill bases pooled in one chapter.

 I'll add to this now and then, but keep a look out for the updates and come back often to see some great skill bases pooled in one chapter

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HOW TO JOIN THIS LIST

There's no real way to join this list but through getting critiqued. If you'd like to nominate someone, please leave a comment on this page, along with their specific chapter and I'll take a look. No. You cannot nominate yourself (sign up for a critique and you may get on the list that way).

1. Original Ideas
sandydragon1 (Quit Bugging Me) | PrishiniBarua (Invocation of Erastus)

2. Making Cliches Work
sclair_ (Entwined) story is not cliched, but the genre is

3. World Building
Kymeraent (The Road After) | Kymeraent (These Old Bones)

4. Character Building

5. Good Dialogue

6. Know-it-all female leads (that aren't preachy)
  ANHorton1227 (A for Arson)

7. Lengthy but not Tedious
Siennafrost (Sirens)  ANHorton1227 (A for Arson)

8. Description / Details
sxxaint (The Stains Beneath Our Skin) | AdultOfTheFuture (Memories Knit) |  CandyAtkins (The Lost Knight (vol. 1) |  AndiJ37 The Entrapment of Stars (Chapter One: Dust) | MadsMHaley (Dragon's Blood)

9. Great Prose
Siennafrost(Sirens)  | DachetGrival (Madrigal) | Shareese86 (Divided) | DiscoWerewolf (The Hybrid Cycle) | 4everSherlocked (Partners in Crime)

10. Nuance

11. Great Introductions (Opening Lines, Setting, Paragraphs)
BroodingHyena  (My Bright Shade of Black)  | HKelle (Rise) |  KhoisanK (MOandLANA) | AndiJ37 (The Entrapment of Stars)

12. Great Endings
sclair_  (Entwined)  |  Gadralneure (Flights of Fancy: #4 Journey to Cogitan)

13. Making the uncanny appealing
DiscoWerewolf (The Hybrid Cycle)

14. Suspenseful but not exhausting
AzulMidnight (War Of The Forgotten Lovers) | CharlieOakree (The Dark Mind Wanders: Layers of Sin)

15. Great Twists

16. Tugs at the heartstrings
Shareese86 (Divided) | RavenAqua (Hooked)

17. Great tongue-in-cheek writing (Satire)

18. Breaking the Fourth Wall
HurricaneKareena (Reasons Why I'll Never Be a Cheerleader)

19. Great Bad Guys
 DiscoWerewolf (The Hybrid Cycle: Gasper)

20. Know-it-all Male Leads (that aren't preachy)
ANHorton1227  (A for Arson: Langley)

21. Bratty Teenage Leads (that are likeable)
HurricaneKareena (Reasons Why I'll Never Be a Cheerleader)

22. Making your skin crawl
sxxaint (The Stains Beneath Our Skin) | CandyAtkins (The Lost Knight (vol. 1)

23. Loveable Moron

24. Cultural Appropriation

25. Fun Run-ons

26. Thought Provoking

27. Mean Protagonists (you'll like)
Again_if_only (𝕮𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖗 𝕭𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖉)

28. Ugly Cry Inducing

29. Action Scenes
DiscoWerewolf (The Hybrid Cycle: 3 The Rest Stop) | KhoisanK (MOandLANA: Chapter 1)

30. Love Scenes (affectionate moments)


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