Wattpad
Amateur fiction platform
Wattpad is an online platform where users publish and read stories, typically serialized fiction.
The site is known for fan fiction, romance, and young adult genres, with readers commenting on individual chapters as they're posted.
Many stories are written by amateur authors, and a few have been adapted into published books or films: She started writing on Wattpad in high school.
Amateur work using existing characters
- romanceLove and its excitement
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
- chaptersMain divisions of text
drafts · cliffhangers · tropes · POV · dialogue · prologues · epilogues · oneshots
Love and its excitement
- fanfictionAmateur work using existing characters
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- vampireBlood-drinking undead creature
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
bad-boy · mafia · CEO · supernatural · horror · mystery · LGBTQ · K-pop
Mobile device software
- storiesAccounts or building levels
- chaptersMain divisions of text
- readsInterprets written symbols
- votesFormal choices recorded
comments · library · notifications · premium · coins · followers · profile · updates
Ages thirteen through nineteen
- fandomEnthusiast community collectively
- commentsSpoken or written reactions
- votesFormal choices recorded
- readsInterprets written symbols
followers · dedications · shoutouts · updates · notifications · midnight · addictive · obsessed
Changes to fit conditions
- NetflixSubscription streaming service
- discoveredFound something previously unknown
- viralSpreading quickly online
- famousWidely known, much recognized
awards · published · deals · trending · mainstream · phenomenon · dreams · opportunities
fanfiction
Amateur work using existing characters
- romanceLove and its excitement
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
chapters · drafts · cliffhangers · tropes · POV · dialogue · prologues · epilogues · oneshots · imagines
romance
Love and its excitement
- fanfictionAmateur work using existing characters
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- vampireBlood-drinking undead creature
fantasy · bad-boy · mafia · CEO · supernatural · horror · mystery · LGBTQ · K-pop · BTS
app
Mobile device software
votes · comments · library · notifications · premium · coins · followers · profile · updates · offline
teens
Ages thirteen through nineteen
- fandomEnthusiast community collectively
- commentsSpoken or written reactions
- votesFormal choices recorded
reads · followers · dedications · shoutouts · updates · notifications · midnight · addictive · obsessed · bookworms
adaptations
Changes to fit conditions
- NetflixSubscription streaming service
- discoveredFound something previously unknown
- viralSpreading quickly online
famous · awards · published · deals · trending · mainstream · phenomenon · dreams · opportunities · recognition
- social mediaposts, post, influencer status, followers, tweet
- teen mediateen dramas, teen magazines, streaming series, TV adaptations, BookTok
- digital storiese-literature, digital storytelling, interactive fiction, webnovels, hypertext
- Creative PlatformsDeviantArt, Cara, Canva, Figma, Blender
- fanfictionfanfiction, fan fiction, fic, fanfic, slash
- web fictionwebnovels, web serial, web fiction, web novel, fan fiction
Wattpadhardcover
Rigid-bound book format
paper books · paperback · hardcopy · bound volumes · printed page