Some of us are naturally born storytellers, and we often look for platforms to write these stories and eventually grow an audience. Though writing is in itself a discipline that should be honed and perfected, it helps if you are doing so under the roof of other storywriters. The benefits of joining writing platforms are that they offer community, engagement, followers, and votes, and these boost your morale.
And sometimes you even get paid 😉
Below is a non-extensive list of writing platforms that you should consider looking into, as they offer various benefits to their authors.
Almost every writer has heard of and likely even started on Wattpad. It offers readers and writers a community to follow one another, message privately, leave in-line comments, or even post on someone’s timeline, and that will appear publicly to anyone else that goes to their profile.
Readers and writers have a variety of genres or even hashtags to choose from, so it really affords you the freedom to read—or write—whatever you want. Though there are limits to how many books you can download to read offline if you have the free version, there are no limits to how many books you can add to your library—or how many reading lists to have, for that matter.
There is a notification tab to inform you of when a book you have has been updated, if you are tagged somewhere, or if someone voted on a chapter. If you are a writer, you also have no limit to how many books you can write or how long, in terms of word count, your chapters are. It’s available as an app for both iPhone and Android, and you can also log in via the browser.
Fun fact: the After series started off as a One Direction fanfiction on Wattpad.
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Inkitt allows writers to write and upload stories for free and sometimes even have their books appear on Galatea, a sister platform. Readers can read up to four chapters for free without even creating an account, and then have the option of logging in and even providing feedback and reviews.
Inkitt also has regular writing contests with interesting prompts like ‘The Waiting Series’ and ‘The Curvy Girls’, which allow the writers to produce short stories (