Now what did she say? You’ve watched the Oscars. You know
what an Oscar is. What, pray tell, is a Watty?
First things first: The amazing Wattpad is the brainchild of Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen, who had an
inventive idea that people love to read, love human expression and that that is
the real news.
Here they are:
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| Ivan Yuen and Allen Lau |
Every year Wattpad
headquarters, that's some 96 folks who work in Toronto, have their version of the Oscars and they call it: The Wattys!
Get this: (Re)Making Love: a memoir won! This
version of the memoir includes the whole tale of the good, the bad and the
foolish with photos on every single chapter and YouTube videos of romantic
comedies, songs and more.
Click ☞Why I’m on Wattpad for how I discovered this marvelous, innovative site.
And I am not alone:
35 million users
spend 9 billions
minutes
on Wattpad every month
With all the “news”
that bombards us daily, Wattpad understands that poetry and memoir and fiction and the desire to invent lie at the center of the human heart.
Here is William Carlos Williams on the subject:
My heart rouses
thinking to bring you news
of something
that concerns you
and concerns many men. Look at
what passes for the new.
You will not find it there but in
despised poems.
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
—William Carlos Williams, from “Asphodel,
That Greeny Flower”
With love to Wattpad,
