Caitlin Tureaud

@bellucci73  I am glad that you like my approach. Since I am writing YA stories here on Wattpad, it is the appropriate one I think.

@CaitlinTureaud The gossamer quality of your intimate scenes is one of the things I like about your work. Many writers, myself included, will opt for the more graphic approach. Really, how many adjectives does one need to describe a butthole? Even a cute one?

@CaitlinTureaud oh gosh, I had missed this announcement. This is such a shame and suppression of stories that should, in my opinion, never be impacted by these sorts of restrictions. I hope there is a solution and that this kind of change on Wattpad is targeted at the extremes, not the writing you produce. I don’t know what else to say right now.

@CaitlinTureaud A few things I've been sketching will not work with the new guidelines. If you find a platform that works for you, let me know.

@WillFlyForFood That is another possibility. I was planning to finish the series and go over all the books to take care of a couple of minor inconsistencies and adjustments before I publish, though. But I am now considering to publish the first five books of the saga and then write the rest of it, as you suggest.

@WillFlyForFood I kind of get how they may be afraid of people starting to fight the freaking Culture Wars in the Wattpad forum which would be a disaster indeed. In my experience people who engage in the Culture War (on either side of it) tend to get extremely rude and to adopt a my-side-right-or-wrong attitude that is exactly not conductive to logical thinking ;)  But then, I have not noticed people starting to act like that in the forum before it was terminated. As to the paid stories, I am not a fan of that feature. It used to be a big part of the charm of Wattpad that you could read all the stories for free here. Anyhow, I need to try and  figure out how I can get readers for TE 101. Also, I hope you will continue to post your stories here so I can read them. There are few really good hard science fiction stories to be found here other than yours.

@CaitlinTureaud There are still lots of stories getting lots of reads...but most are watty-porn

@CaitlinTureaud On top of that, the Ranking Algorithm was changed such that any new story by a new or established author is now almost "invisible" and not "presented" by the site to readers. It used to be that stories were slotted into the genre hotlist. There were spots for mega-hits, new stories, stories with lots of comments and most of all, stories with CURRENT interest. The Science Fiction Hotlist was essentially static from 2019-just a few months ago. One of mine was ranked about #84-#104 for that whole time event though it got barely any reads!
            
            The VAST majority of "presented" stories are Paid, Creator or Webtoon based. That is why readers are constantly spammed by adverts for things like that "Korean Boy-Band by day, Vampire by Night" series.
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@designsforthetimes Thank you! Mostly, I am hoping that submitting Branch Cut to  the Wattys may draw some additional attention of potential readers to the TE 101 series.

@CaitlinTureaud good luck with that it deserves to do well. Best wishes