Wattpad makes fantastic reading app

Kenyaa Wright, Staff Reporter

Wattpad is an online and offline reading app. I have loved reading for as long as I can remember. When I was in elementary school, kids would always whine about having to read, but I would get excited and hurry to pick out a book for the night. My favorite part about Wattpad is that the books are free. I like that a lot. But at the same time the thing is that the writers take time out of their day to write because they would like to entertain people like me, but they aren’t getting anything out of it but their passion for writing. Now, Wattpad has started to put interesting ads into the chapters of books to pay the writers. They aren’t just typical ads where you have to strain your eyes to find the “X”,  but they are videos that are interesting and games that are worth downloading.

Some writers update once a month, once a week or even every day. I usually go for the stories that are already completed so I am not left in suspense about what is going to happen next for a whole month. Wattpad is open to anyone; you don’t have to be a top notch writer. It’s for those that have a passion for writing no matter what their skill is. People write about anything really; some people write about religious or political matters, Knock-Knock Jokes, pick-up lines, romance, horror books or even old-time books.

I personally stick to the supernatural thrillers because I think the authors on Wattpad make things a lot more interesting and not too cliche. I feel that Wattpad writers are more down to earth and write about real life occurrences and not fictional fake things that would never happen. Some writers get enough attention and eventually upload their books as e-readers, then to Amazon Kindle where they get money. The final step is that their book could end up in the “Watty Awards”  and could possibly be published. The negative part about this is that you could be halfway through a book and the pages won’t turn, so you have to go back to their page and see what is going on. Some authors stop halfway through the story and start saying that they have decided to not write anymore and that they uploaded it on Amazon Kindle and that we should go check it out. I don’t do this because it usually is not free and you can only have the book for a certain point of time.

Wattpad is my favorite reading app ever. I would rather read then watch TV. It is always accessible with wifi or without wifi. I give Wattpad five stars.