I frequently fantasized in detail as a child (and still do, truth be told) about characters suffering great emotional and occasionally physical pain, but it was always for the sake of hurt/comfort and sometimes to explain why they were the way they were.
I can understand, on some level, the appeal of a man who's in control of himself and his life. I can't find anything sexy about a man physically and psychologically harming a woman until she breaks down and decides that she loves him. Not every Wattpad romance plays out like this, but a lot of them do.
On Wattpad being dominated by romance, I imagine there's also an issue with people not wanting to post anything else because the site is seen as being a place to come for romance -- if you wanted to write a story about two gangsters in an uneasy alliance just waiting for the inevitable misunderstanding and tragic ending, you probably wouldn't expect a readership to be looking for it in the middle of a whole load of books about "The Sheik's Secret Son" and "Romancing the Billionaire". There's not much incentive to upload something you know the available audience doesn't have any interest in, after all.
You really do know me, don't you? :P
I actually had no idea, because Wattpad doesn't advertise itself as being romance-centric, but I guess it is. I wish there were a site specifically for stories that don't have romance as the main focus.
I mean, I base my stories heavily on the sort of stuff I was reading when I was a teenager -- it just happens that it was a diet of early 20th century adventure fiction, coupled with high fantasy and angsty historical novels...
Same here, except I was reading angsty coming-of-age YA novels.
In regards to my own book, it's just a matter of moving some scenes around and rewriting one or two. It's back on track for the time being.
(This is the fifth time I've tried to write the opening of this book. I hope it works this time.)
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I can understand, on some level, the appeal of a man who's in control of himself and his life. I can't find anything sexy about a man physically and psychologically harming a woman until she breaks down and decides that she loves him. Not every Wattpad romance plays out like this, but a lot of them do.
On Wattpad being dominated by romance, I imagine there's also an issue with people not wanting to post anything else because the site is seen as being a place to come for romance -- if you wanted to write a story about two gangsters in an uneasy alliance just waiting for the inevitable misunderstanding and tragic ending, you probably wouldn't expect a readership to be looking for it in the middle of a whole load of books about "The Sheik's Secret Son" and "Romancing the Billionaire". There's not much incentive to upload something you know the available audience doesn't have any interest in, after all.
You really do know me, don't you? :P
I actually had no idea, because Wattpad doesn't advertise itself as being romance-centric, but I guess it is. I wish there were a site specifically for stories that don't have romance as the main focus.
I mean, I base my stories heavily on the sort of stuff I was reading when I was a teenager -- it just happens that it was a diet of early 20th century adventure fiction, coupled with high fantasy and angsty historical novels...
Same here, except I was reading angsty coming-of-age YA novels.
In regards to my own book, it's just a matter of moving some scenes around and rewriting one or two. It's back on track for the time being.
(This is the fifth time I've tried to write the opening of this book. I hope it works this time.)