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Then vs. Now Challenge 💿✨ (Open to English Global)

Open to English Global

📣 Scroll down for the community voting poll!📣

Hi Wattpadders,

Then vs. Now Challenge

The votes are officially open from July 20-24 ✨💿

Our top 4 Then vs. Now responses have made it to the final round, and now it's your turn to decide the winner. Read through the finalists, pick your favourite, and cast your vote. (Make sure to use the poll to count as an eligible vote!)

Response #1

Entrant: LakeishaHardy

Then: It all started in my bedroom, hair in a messy bun, crushing on celebrities and daydreaming about fictional worlds.

Now: It's 3 a.m. and I'm still up because reading became writing, and the stories I once escaped into are the stories I'm finally brave enough to tell.
Response #2

Entrant: Samkaze

Then: Reading when I definitely shouldn't be...

Now: I always get distracted from my exam prep because the tension between the main characters is way more critical than understanding cell biology right now.🥹🫶

Response #3

Entrant: SoarkWhisper 

Then: It all started in my bedroom, hair in a messy bun... thinking romance could never make me lose sleep

Now: It's 3 a.m. and I'm still up because after 300 pages, the enemies just touch fingers. Hehe!

Response #4

Entrant: Rainraisi

Then: Just getting into writing...

Now: I'm still writing, because somewhere out there, someone might need the story I almost gave up on.

Make sure to scroll down to vote in the poll! ⬇️ 

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Hi Wattpadders, 

Before there were book boyfriends, there were celebrity crushes. Before there were Reading Lists, there were bedroom walls covered in posters. Before you were staying up until 3 a.m. reading "just one more chapter," you were staying up until 3 a.m. watching interviews, music videos, and fancams.

Some things change. Some things don't.

To celebrate Wattpad's 20th anniversary, we're looking back at the obsessions that shaped us with the Then vs. Now Challenge. 💿✨

How to enter

Option 1: Finish the prompt ✍️

Answer one of the prompts below in the comments and include #thenvsnow.

Then: It all started in my bedroom, hair in a messy bun...

Now: It's 3 a.m. and I'm still up because _______

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Then: Reading about fake dating that British boy band member...

Now: Fake dating the _______

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Then: Reading when I definitely shouldn't be...

Now: I always get distracted from _______