How to self-edit your own content, how to find an editor for your story and how to evaluate someone’s editing ability or fit for you.

This week marks the official launch of the Wattys 2020! In celebration of that, we have 2 special guests from Wattpad HQ, and the winner of last year's Watty Book prize, author Shay Bravo.

This week we cover what the judging system looks like, a mini behind-the-scenes, how we judge, what we look for, things we evaluate, and what’s most important to us.

This episode covers how to write the perfect logline and summary, where people often go wrong on summaries, feeling okay about giving away your ending, and properly pitching your product.

This week's podcast discusses how to make your story more discoverable on Wattpad. Metadata is a low-cost, effective and easy way to promote books. It’s how readers find you and your stories on Wattpad and beyond, and it has a huge impact on their reading decisions.

Making sure that everything you create at the start leads to something by the end and pays off for the reader. This episode explores how to write in a cliffhanger without overusing or abusing it and how to create compulsion without a cliffhanger. We will also look at writing twists and how they’re not all they’re cracked up to be and how they’re misused.

On this week’s Road to Wattys Podcast we have special guests Grant Faulkner, the executive director of NaNoWriMo, and Mignon Fogarty the founder of Quick and Dirty Tips, and a New York Times bestselling author. Be sure to tune in to get some expert advice on overcoming burnout and writer’s block.

This episode looks at writing descriptions and dialogue! How do you write the perfect scene without giving it all away? What is show, don’t tell? And what’s the balance between dialogue and description? How do you make dialogue feel natural and flow correctly in your scene?

This week’s podcast looks at character arcs! Figuring out how to write character arcs takes your understanding of the story far beyond that of just a character changing over the course of the story. If the plot is the bones of a story, then the character is its heart.

What are the different types of narrative arcs your stories can fall under? How do you know which one is the right one? Learn all about story structure, building tension, and keeping pace in this week's Road to Wattys Podcast.