Followers and @Wattpad
Wattpad has started sending messages to writers. About stories not being updated regularly. As readers told Wattpad that the biggest issue is stories not being complete/not regularly updated.
@Wattpad sending this message all you've done is cause issues/panic for writers. Before I started writing, I read a lot of stories. Some weren't completed and hadn't been updated in years. I was upset, but life happens things come up. I was happy to read the person’s story. Hope they were okay. Now I'm writing and haven't updated for a good few months. Not that I don't want to or I've abandoned my stories. It's because I've had IRL stuff happening and in a few stories I have writer’s block. I still hop on Wattpad every day. I want to update stories. I try to think of something to write. I want my followers to read. At the moment, it's not happening.
I don't think Wattpad understands people have lives. And things come up that we can't control. Sadly stories take the back seat. If we were getting paid to write, different story. But we’re not. For those that write for fun, and socialize, it's their passion. I started writing I was stuck in a dark place. We don't need that type of message. You're causing panic, making people think if we don't update regularly so we don't get ban or shadowbanned. So we rush to pump out as many updates as we can. Causing stress and the start of hating to write. We start updating stuff we don't like. Just so we don't get banned.
@Wattpad your message was unnecessary and not needed.
