Wattpad Recommendation Submissions Guidelines
To celebrate 10,000 which provides what seems like a significant influence, I’ve always been passionate about encouraging, promoting, building platforms and expanding opportunities for others – that ultimately is my vision and goal in the long run, in as many ways as possible in the future. So I am opening up to reading requests and will feature/share one favourite work every Friday. Our more mature demographics on Wattpad definitely should grow and the readers should be brought to deeper literature and Wattpad as a legitimate platform for literary talent. Please follow these below!
LOOKING FOR:
– Mature, sophisticated, poised writing with a strong flowing voice
– Literary Fiction (based on contemporary reality and captures life and humanity, not clearly identifiable under one genre, eloquent nuanced/atmospheric/poetic prose, abstract metaphysical not-everything-is-stated feeling, multiple layers of deeper meaning and textures, thought-provoking and allows reader interpretation, big questions about life and philosophies)
– NOT driven or focused on plot
– Challenges society, constructs and the norm
– Overcoming difficulties with a positive, inspiring message
– Contemplative, meditative, spiritual way of capturing human interactions and bonds
– Magical-realism (See: http://mariavicente.com/post/98299672656/what-is-magical-realism)
– Symbolic, Allegorical, Mythic, Dream, Vision
– High Fantasy
– Intellectual World-Building, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian, Speculative Fiction
– POETRY: NOT personal or based on emotions; symbolic, allegorical, mythic, dream, vision, spiritual, abstract, art
– Adult NON-FICTION with personal elements: travelogue, memoir, essay, discourse, etc.
NOT LOOKING FOR:
– Children’s/Teen Fiction/Young Adult
– Strict Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Science-Fiction, Historical Fiction, Action, Crime/Mystery, Horror etc. though elements of these may appear slightly in considered work
SUBMIT:
– Send a PM on Wattpad and introduce yourself briefly (extra points if you’ve read my work :P) with a short paragraph briefly describing your story – with “genre” keywords, and enough synopsis info to get an idea of what happens in it.
– DO NOT include any links
– Spread the word to whoever you think should be recognized for their literary talent
Wattpad Brand/Marketing Consulting
If you are a writer of literary fiction or other above content and would like to talk in private about how to improve brand/marketing strategy on Wattpad, do drop me a PM as well. If there is time and space available, I can help with my experience as a web and graphic designer, social media promoter, multimedia artist, events coordinator and onwards.