101 Writing Tips from an Exha...

By ray_of_sunshine9

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I've been reviewing stories on Wattpad for a while now and, boy, has that been a journey. Your stories have m... More

Welcome!
Table of Contents
Types of Reviewers
Types of Comments
Types of Authors
Pick Your Poison
Stalking Your Reviewer
Facing Harsh Reviews
Most Frustrating Reviewers
Most Frustrating Requesters
An Extremely Sugar-Coated Review
Payment
|| PART II: Overall Writing Advice ||
Blurbs: Novels
Blurbs: Poetry + Short Story
Run-On Sentences
Past vs Present Tense
Planning Your Story
Dialogue
Redundancy + Sentence Structure
Showing vs Telling
Writing an "Interesting" Story
Finding Your "Voice"
Point of View (First/Second/Third Person Writing)
Writing Styles
Pacing
Spelling + Proofreading
Starting Your Story
Prologues
Commas
Writer's Block
A Good Protagonist
Foreshadowing
Writing Numbers
World Building
Diversity
LGBTQ+
Is This Plot Point Necessary?
Descriptions
Writing Multiple POVs
Name-Dropping
Writing Children
Switching POVs
Internal Monologue
Tips for Beginner Writers
Kiss Scenes
Smut Scenes
|| PART III: Cliché vs Unique Tropes ||
Quiz Time: Is Your Story Cliché?
Quiz Time: Is Your Poetry Cliché?
Quiz Time: Is Your Short Story Cliché?
Quiz Time: Is Your Fanfiction Cliché?
Love Triangles
The Best Friend
Love at First Sight
Overused Writing Clichés
Good Girl; Bad Boy
Types of Antagonists
Types of Supporting Characters
The Alpha Werewolf
Types of Love Interests
The Mary Sue
Dead Parents
Open-Ended Stories
Quiz Time: Is My Character Attractive Enough?
|| PART IV: Making Your Book "Wattpad Famous" ||
Covers
How to Get "READS" On Wattpad
Awards
Community Accounts

|| PART I: The (Exhausting) World of Reviewers ||

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By ray_of_sunshine9

The next few chapters will feature common questions and misconceptions about reviewers, as well as a few rants that we have been wanting to make for a long, long time. These chapters will be relatively fun, and feature chapters about the types or reviewers, as well as advice on how to know whether you have stumbled across a good reviewer or not.

The chapters in this part, thus far, are:

1. Types of Reviewers

2. Pick Your Poison: Which Reviewer Should You Choose?

3. An Agent 007 Guide to Stalking Reviewers: How To Know If Your Reviewer Is Good Before Requesting A Review

4. Keep Calm & Eat a Donut: How To Handle Harsh/Rude Reviewers + Readers

5. Most Frustrating Reviewers

6. Uno-Reverse! Most Frustrating Requesters

7. Types of Authors

8. Types of Comments

9. An Extremely Sugar-Coated Review

10. Payment


And, of course, if you'd like any more chapters about reviewers, let us know! We'll be happy to write them! You can either comment your request or shoot me a PM.

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