I was cruising around Wattpad today when I came across a story that looked like it was written for children. I thought, "That's cool that a children's author is coming on this site. I haven't seen anything of that genre on here before." After a little further reading of the story, I found out the story was actually written by a child.
Wattpad has a rule you can't join if you're under thirteen, because goodness knows age restrictions are such an effective tool at stopping people from doing things on the internet. I would peg the author of this particular story at about nine years of age. It sounded like the child really wants to be an author, and I wish them well at this endeavour. However, this story is written in the typical style of a nine year old or thereabouts.
In an age where anyone can be an author or a singer or what have you and have an instant stage for what they're presenting, it means stuff will get out there that really shouldn't get out there. Maybe in a few years this child will produce some stories that really blow people away, but for now they're a typical nine year old or whatever, as far as their writing is concerned anyway. This is the age where they should be writing their stories for the fun of it and not putting them on social networking sites where trolls and other neferrious kinds of people will make fun of them.
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