The future of entertainment will be written by young women on their phones. And the future is already here.
, the brand’s newly launched imprint. “Being a published writer felt far off. I was just writing for fun. I never thought it would turn into this,” Ansell said.
For Ronin, whose family immigrated to Canada from the Philippines when she was 11, it was an emotional reveal. “My parents gave up everything for us to get to Canada. You know, parents just want you to be okay. [After hearing the news] my dad was like, ‘Now I don’t have to worry about you,” Ronin said.
“I use Wattpad as a way to get better at writing. Wattpad gives a level of specific feedback you wouldn’t get with a published book. People will comment on a specific sentence and say, ‘I love the way you worded this,’ or, ‘I would love it if this would happen,’” Ansell said, echoing Ronin’s sentiment.
For many authors, that immediate and in-depth feedback to barely edited work sounds like a nightmare. But Wattpad disrupts the typical lifecycle of a book, and all associated conventions of the writing process: Debating an MFA, toiling away in solitude, finding an agent to connect the manuscript to an editor, and if you’re lucky, getting published a few years later. You hope the publisher puts money behind the marketing and publicity campaign. You hope you gain an audience.
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