Wattpad, as the platform that appealed to most Filipino writers under a certain niche, contributed a huge part in keeping the genre alive and well in the country. Read also: The world in chapters: I traveled the world through reading books For Ariesa and many others, writing wasn’t a viable career, but a hobby: “It wasn’t until I was practically forced by my friend to write a story that I discovered that I actually liked building a world where I can control everything.”
Louisse Carreon, published author of tearjerkers A and D and Realize puts it this way: “a social media network of its own-but with stories.” This has been the same for Ariesa Domingo, author of nine Wattpad stories that have been published as a book, including Seducing Drake Palma and For Hire: A Damn Good Kisser. It serves as a space where everyone can create, talk, and be heard.Įver since its launch in 2006, Wattpad became that vast space tucked in the interwebs where we can pen our own books: characters and conflicts in worlds we can create in just a click. As it says on the site, Wattpad takes everything we love about storytelling, and transforms it into a social, on-the-go experience. Read also: 5 rom-coms that are not for rom-com peopleįor the past decade, a bulk of these stories are created and serialized in one particular, huge corner of the Internet: Wattpad. It is as ubiquitous as it can get Inquirer even hailed rom-coms as the “genre ng bayan.” Top-grossing films in our country are rife with romance and its conventions. After all, romantic comedies are an irrefutable element in Filipino pop culture. This is Bianca Bernardino’s She’s Dating the Gangster, which was first published on an online forum before migrating to Wattpad.Īnd it’s not the only best-selling romantic story birthed out of this online publishing platform.
This plot has been read three million times online, became a National Book Store bestseller in 2013, and eventually landed on theaters as a Star Cinema box-office hit starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla, also known as Kathniel.
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Read also: 4 Local Books That Would Work as TV Showsĭoes that sound familiar? Well, in fact, it’s too familiar. And guess what? The two find themselves falling for each other instead.
Here’s how the story goes: A 17-year-old girl with bad hair plays trick on the campus heartthrob, who just so happens to be a bad boy, self-proclaimed “gangster.” When he finds out that the girl he’s been talking to actually isn’t the ex-girlfriend he was pining for (the two girls should have the same name), he puts up the condition that they should pretend as lovers until the gangster’s ex comes back to his life out of jealousy.
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