I attended a talk at our local library last Saturday in Kenmore, near Brisbane City, Australia. I was with six others from our Creative Writing group. We had all been reading and writing fiercely, and were excited about learning to E-Publish.
As it turned out, the Kenmore Library talk, given by the Queensland Writers Centre was valuable and inspired all of us. Although we were all ‘pumped’ by the talk, some members were not too comfortable with self-promotion and general socialising on the internet and E-publishing. Some of course (all total of three of us) raced home and signed up with Wattpad to begin writing our stories.
I was working through my drafts and trying to choose what I would like to write or publish on Wattpad. I also looked up general information on Wattpad and read other stories written by various writers. It is too early for me to know whether this step would assist me with my plans to publish some of my work but I will share more later.
Amongst all the information I read and saw, I came across this short video – which made me laugh. This video is not only about what a writer does in Wattpad. This is what we all do in Wattpad or WordPress or even other social networks – we are eager to get some response, feedback or praise when general advice is ‘write for yourself’, or ‘don’t expect’ anything or ‘believe in what you are doing’….. after all, writers are human.
Tribalmystic Stories 
Aww thanks. I hope we both do!
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I loved this video. I thinks it’s inspirational. Encourages me to keep writing.
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I love it too. It gives you hope as a writer, and it also makes you realise there are people out there reading your work all the time.
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Yes, people from all over the world! Simply amazing!
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“LLL” – you will become famous. 🙂
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Sure! I will check it out – do you have an email address? If I have a big long feedback, I will email it to you. 🙂 Now if you search for “Unwanted Fall” on my blog, you can see the story I am thinking of posting.
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My email is careengilzene@gmail.com. Gonna look up the story now.
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Ok great!. Thank you. I will check out your Wattpad story.
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I have a story on wattpad. I would like to check yours out whats your name? Its a great platform but I find it hard to get a story popular.
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Hi LucidLeoLady, thank you for commenting and sharing. My name is the same as this Blog Tribal Mystic. I have not posted any stories yet, just reading what others are posting. I am thinking of expanding the short story I have published on this blog called “Unwanted Fall” into a book. I want to publish some of my Memoir stories, but only bits and pieces. I think I will post the “Unwanted Fall” this week. Then, I can add chapters to it.
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Ok cool, I’ll look out for it. Maybe you check out my story in the meantime. Its called Mr. Vague & Mrs. Open and my wattpad name is NeeraX. Its my first effort and I welcome feedback.
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Ooo that was very interesting. I have not found Wattpad yet, but definitely will check it out. Cool beans that you are from Brissy. I’m from Central Highlands in the north of Queensland. Looking forward to following your blog. Cheers.
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Hi razorbackwriteraus, thank you very much for following my blog. I had a quick look at yours. Love your stories. I will go back to it tonight. Yes, go and check out Wattpad and see what you think.:)
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Shall do!
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Great!- adding you. 🙂
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I just recently found out about Wattpad myself. I put one story on there, but don’t think anyone has read it yet, ha ha…I did something completely different (sci-fi/horror) than what I have ever done. I plan to also put some more short stories on there….
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Good on you lanodb! I will visit you. What is your name? Same? Mine is the same. I have not posted anything yet but I will.
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Yes…its L.T. Garvin.. 🙂
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