Empathic Ink

For those of you who write, you'll understand when I say it's an addiction. I constantly have stories in my head wanting to be told. Even when I'm not writing , I'm still writing. You know... staring off into space, aloof to life that continues to happen around you because you're stuck in your own little fictional world. Some of those stories may simply be an idea, a short story, or maybe it's a bit too crazy to share, so I shove them into the back of my mind, knowing they may never get told. Sometimes, ideas have to remain just that... ideas . However, an occasional opportunity arises that will cause me to pull one of those crazy stories out. For me, that opportunity is often in the form of Wattpad . Whether it's Harry Potter fanfic , which I could never share otherwise, or a story that gets featured on Wattpad and chosen by several popular horror movies as a featured story on their Wattpad profiles , I can always count on Wattpad to be there to feed...

To Wattpad or not to Wattpad... that's the question. In the book and writing world, there are many varying opinions regarding Wattpad . The ones that surprise me the most, however, are the ones that come from writers. After speaking on a panel at the Rocket City Lit Fest last year, an attendee said they thought Wattpad was useless and a waste of time for writers, since it was putting your work out there for the world to read for free. Well, I'm sure Anna Todd , now a NY Times best-selling author because of her After series, which was originally 'just a Wattpad story', disagrees. Her simple Wattpad story has been picked up by Paramount Pictures, so this is proof that Wattpad has its perks. Why Wattpad? The real question, in my mind, is why not? Firstly, you have the potential of gaining new readers who may enjoy your writing so much they become loyal readers, purchasing anything you write. Secondly, you get free feedback from readers who are (sometimes brut...

A little bit of me.... A month or so ago, I was in a funk on where I wanted to take book 3 in the 'For Always' series, so I took a weekend break and wrote ' Haunted ', which was a story that had been floating around in my head for a while. Since it's a fairly quick read, I decided to write it on Wattpad , which was/is rather frightening, since there's probably a million people on there from all over the world. Believe it or not, as much as I like to write, it's scary...putting myself (my stories) out there like that for all to judge. However, I'd rather get some bad comments or reviews than have regrets, always wondering ' what if '. The way I see it, opinions are all them , but regret is all me . I am so glad I faced my fears of failure and actually let people read my stories. My main goal was to write something that people would enjoy reading, and from what I've been told by readers, I've done that.  And I know that everyone isn...