It still has some traction as new stories are getting reviewers. I mean I used to use Fictionpress over a decade ago, but decided to check it out of curiosity after so long.
I wanted to look at a story for inspiration that I used to talk about in terms of the length of it. The story has a little over 600 chapters.
Moving on, I do know that others are using Royal Road, Wattpad, Inkitt, or something else entirely, meaning writers who aren’t thinking about self-publishing i are using other sites to share their work and get fans.
I’m still a bit shocked that the site is around, yet I shouldn’t be. I mean just because I wasn’t going there constantly like I used to decades ago, that meant it would be deleted for good. It’s just the traction there wasn’t like the old days. Yet people are still using it which is wonderful because it’s still kicking.
I know what you mean. While I never visit FictionPress, I do occasionally visit their sister site FanFictionNet, and I’m always shocked that it’s still up. Not as active as it used to be, but still chugging along somehow. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
There are a lot more readers on Wattpad than on FictionPress, and Wattpad offers contracts with big five publishers if your book gets popular enough. Likewise, they have Wattpad Studios, which is partnered with NBC, Sony Pictures and others who can make your book into a tv show since you said you wanted to approach it like a television series. So you’re really shooting yourself in the foot by not posting it on Wattpad, eh?
People publish all kinds of books on Wattpad. It’s all about promotion. Even if you published a really trendy romantasy, no one’s going to read it if you don’t promote it.
Well, yes…promoting it the same way you’d have to if it was self-published. But then, even traditionally published authors have to promote their own books, unless the author is Stephen King or someone already famous and successful. Trad-pubbed writers have been complaining about that for awhile now, and I don’t blame them. What’s the point of publishing houses having marketing teams if they’re only going to use them for authors who don’t need any more publicity? ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
I am a writer first and last, not even a business oriented person at all.
If I can’t get better at the craft of writing and storytelling when I put out novels, then what is the point of anything?
Why should I promote myself when my novels could do that as I get better?
I hate it! Yes, I still want to self-publish, I’m just gonna cheat the system because I want my work speak for me in a way social media can’t.
My main and only focus is traditional publishing then maybe self-publishing.
I’ll return back to Wattpad for free and to get readers.
