Dear Mandy,
I’m currently writing my book on Wattpad and it’s public. If it’s something I eventually want to get published and sell copies of, should I be writing it somewhere else so it’s not “free?” Where does everyone write their books?
Answer: The first thing I would point out is that it sounds like you’re using Wattpad as a word processor, and I don’t think that’s really what Wattpad is intended to be. Wattpad is a publishing platform, not a word processor. You can certainly write your novel there, but when you make those chapters public, you aren’t simply saving your work somewhere online. You are publishing it. This is an important distinction to make if your ultimate goal is to have the novel traditionally published.
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