Glitz & Guts

Join me and others in @WattZombie 's #30DaysOfUndeadSummer challenge!!!

House Cup - Contest Book

A book for all contests related to the IntothePotterverse profile

Is your Blue my Red

I wrote these comments and other random thoughts on Wattpad and elsewhere on the web. I think we as poets have all lost a bit of our soul with the passing of our friend @Lisaner and we are just a bit more mortal and reflective, may we always hold the poet's word as a living thing. Love, peace, and freedom, Olan L. Smi...

How To Write Serialised Fiction

Love writing but find it hard to finish projects? Looking for a new approach to telling stories? Embracing serialisation can help you be more productive and get more readers. In this guide I share what I've learned while writing A Day of Faces, my serial which hit #7 in the science fiction chart here on Wattpad, won a...

Hook Your Reader

[ON HOLD] Nobody will ever know how incredible your book is if they don't read it. And for that you need a hook. A unique opening line that touches the core of the story, that temptingly hints to what they'll find inside, that compels your reader to read on. Here are ten tips to hook your reader and get more rea...

Advice From Writers

As Talent Scouts, we get to talk and interact with many different writers every day. We are always listening and learning from these interactions, and we see how every Wattpad journey is unique and how different strategies work for different people. We are very happy to share some of this advice and experiences with y...

11 Ways to Wattpad like a Pro!

11 Top tips and tricks to get the most out of Wattpad! From a Watty Award winning author with over 30 million reads online.

How To Get Reads, Votes, and Comments - A Guide

How do I get more reads, votes, and comments? If you find yourself asking that question, then I have some answers for you. What can you do to reach out to readers and potential readers? How can you encourage readers to comment and vote? What are all the different ways you can promote your stories? This #1 ranking...

Fanfic Contests

Fanfiction knows no bounds, and to help spark your creativity, we will be posting the details of all our Fanfiction contests: oneshots, drabbles, prompts, challenges, and much more! Contests will typically occur every 2 weeks. Prizes may include shoutouts on our social channels, Wattpad swag, or even a week on the Fea...

The Harvest

The Harvest is book two of the duology that started with "The Sword and Sickle" and now "The Harvest," the final book in the series. This book is written and published to Wattpad as creative writing process, so it will have typos and other errors so fell free to point them out using inline comments. Olan uses each Wat...

Will Against The Odds Contest #TNTWillContest

Create a 500-word story about a time you felt successful, despite the odds being stacked against you for your chance to win a Will Swag Bag!

Step Brothers

Leo is an ordinary guy who lived most of his life in Italy. With his parents divorced and living in different countries, he travels a lot. But when his mother offers him a once in a life time chance to switch it up and live with her in America, he takes it without hesitation. Now his new life, new home and new family...

Six Times Three

This is fantasy horror story, an excerpt from a manuscript I start a number of years tentatively tiled, "The Sword and the Sickle .

Tevun-Krus #44 - Sword & Planet

Swords, planets and stuff... Fantasy definitely meets Sci-Fi when the TK crew take on this epic sub-genre!

Tevun-Krus #43 - ClockPunk

The TK Crew take on ClockPunk this month. Come on in and check out a multitude of short stories, regular features and the return of an old favourite!

Tevun-Krus #42 - Oh, and ANOTHER Thing...

It's TK42. What else did you think we'd do with this one?!

SF Sub-Genre Definitions

Are you a budding sci-fi author? Do you need the many different sub genres of SF defined? A lot of people do so if you're one of them... this is where you need to look!

Missing Trace

Hannah is back, with new friends, and more drama. College so far has been the exact opposite of how she expected it to be while she watches Winston excel where she fails. With unsympathetic professors refusing to see Hannah as more than an ad pusher, Hannah figures she might as well pack up and go home. But nothing mo...