Top Websites for Fiction Writers to Share Their Writing

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So you’ve written a story and don’t want to self-publish or have it sit in a literary agents slush pile? But also want to post your work online and get feedback? These website are great outlets for all writers. Musicians have Soundcloud. Vloggers have Youtube. Up and coming and established writers have websites like these:

Wattpad

Wattpad is a community for readers and writers spanning across different genres.

Pros and Cons

• Accessible by app and website
• Large reader and writer audience
• Great network if looking for beta readers and feedback
• Great resource for building social network with other writers
• Stories are ranked out of the top 1,000 books in a specific genre (some genres included: classics, general fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction, poetry, spiritual, teen fiction, mystery, horror)
• When a writer updates their story, their followers are notified via email
• Readers and writers can communicate via private message
• Readers can add stories to their private library (setup like Nook, Kindle and iBooks)
• Stories that have generated buzz have gone on to sign book deals and be opted for series/film.
• Mixture of traditional published, self published and novice writers
• Great for serialized fiction
• Readers can vote and comment on every chapter of a story
• Writers can go back and edit chapters
• Number of reads and votes a story has is visible for all to see
• Stories success can be judged by rank position and number of reads
• All writers are not treated equally. There are a select group of writers who get paid to write based on their large number of followers and large number of reads
• Young audience (large group of readers between ages of 13 and 20)
• Myriad of stories with similar themes/plots to previously published/popular stories (ie. Twilight, 13 Reasons Why, The Notebook)
• Stories that rank in…