Featured: Wattpad Comics

Hello, everyone! :)

Just some weeks ago, I forgot to share to you an important discovery that I had, so now that I have the time and I remember it, I will share it to you.

Today's feature in this blog is Alesana Marie's Pass the Cookies!

It is a web comic published on Wattpad and yes, for me it is a discovery because due to Wattpad's many innovations you can finally publish your own comics in it instead of plain typewritten stories (which was the website's original format when it comes to published works anyway).

I haven't checked if there are other web comics around Wattpad, but as of now, feel free to read Pass The Cookies!

Point-Of-View: Love and Differences

It was hard to imagine watching two people so into each other. You could see them happy together, their tastes matched with each other and their differences only made them more interested with each other.

But these were only the disillusions of love. Sometimes, we would always find our partner's difference as something unique about him or her. We would start to love that about them, because it was a sign of their individuality. Their difference made them want them more for we believed that we are in love when we accept them for their difference, for who they are.

Source: Decohubs.com

Of course, that is what really love is, but how long could your relationship flow smoothly with your differences?

Small differences are no big deal. It would not matter if he likes the color blue and you like orange, if he is too tall or too short for you, if she is too ugly or too pretty for you, if she is smarter in Physics than you.

What about the big differences? What if the guy is a Born-Again and the girl is a Catholic? What if she wanted financial stability at the age of 35 before getting married and he wanted to get married at the age of 25? What if he wanted to live in their own home, far from relatives while the girl wants to live in a compound close to her parents' house once they get married? What if she wanted to work abroad and he didn't want her to? What if he wanted to put up a business managed by him and his future wife and she just wanted to stay employed?

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You may have different religions or beliefs, difference attitudes or personalities, but there will come a point that both of you have to compromise. And when we compromise, it would be either one would sacrifice their own belief for the other, or both would not do what they plan to do so that it would not make one of them sacrifice their own belief.

But there will come a time when one of them should sacrifice and give up their beliefs, their personalities, their principles just to make the relationship work.

Would you do that for love?

Could you give up your religion? Your beliefs? All the little pieces of your puzzle that makes you whole when they are put together?

Could you? Would you?

And would you still love a person when they could not give you what you wanted? If they could not do what you want them to do? Would you still love them if they refused to adapt to what you believe in? To what your principles are?

Could you? Would you?

For how long? To what extent?

(c) OriginalAS/Anamarie Soya

Point-Of-View: No Exception to the Rule

Since I was in my elementary days I have been an aspiring writer.
I started off inventing my own magazines, own news paper, and love stories, of  course (for such a young age!). I have always loved reading stories, therefore, if I were to get hooked on writing, well, the initial hobby made it inevitable for me to be lead in this writing hobby.

My writing improved and improved. When it comes to the English grammar, I found myself comfortable with it (and fluent) since I also practice speaking it so often since I was a kid. Tagalog is my native language, so I don't have much problem with it either. Moreover, I have been a school paper writer during elementary and high school.

But I don't know. Sometimes, the desire to go with the trend, to be appealing to the mass or to please readers, I began to forget the rules in writing.

It actually started off during the rising popularity of the Wattpad website. I found different kinds of writers there, but majority of them wrote kind of a little different from what I have seen.

Some used emoticons, improper spacing, wrong grammar, improper use of punctuation marks, etc. And most of them wrote on first person POV! To tell the truth, it seemed fun to me. I am very open to things that are new to me and experimental too, so I also adapted that style on one of my stories (just one story), and unbelievably, it had a lot of read and votes than my formally written stories. Why did I do that? Because of pressure, I guess. Envy, I guess. I desired to be heard, to lure people to read my story, to gain the appreciation I need to motivate myself to write. I let the people motivate me and not my inspirations.

Still, I don't know why I felt uncomfortable with it. So I usually bounce back to my old and own way of writing, and one Wattpad writer commented, appreciating that he still found a writer who follows the rules when it comes to writing.

It was flattering, I saw his point on how important it is to follow the rules in writing. Not just that you are expressing your ideas in a story in a proper way, but it also is a visible proof of the quality of your work. As a writer, it matters to avoid typos, use the proper punctuation marks and the right grammar.

Some may think that being a writer is a gift, a talent. But as for me, it's the imagination that is a gift. Writing is a matter of practice, a skill to enhance to be able to reach a lot of people with your words. But then again, there are no exceptions to the rule.

With that, I learned to be my real self when I write. Rules in writing? They will always be important to me. It helped me not to let the pressure change my style, nor go with the trend when I don't have to.

For being a writer, you are not just responsible with the message your story gives to its readers, but the quality of your work is in your own writing's presentation grammar-wise, and the right punctuation marks.

The trends may fade away, but not the rule.