Wouldn't you love to have an experienced writer spend 6 weeks helping you improve your storytelling? This book will show you how to do that. I'm Alex, and I'm a Bootcamp Mentor. I work with other writing mentors through the Bootcamp Mentorship Program here on Wattpad. Read on to learn more about me, my mentoring style, and what this awesome community can do for you as a writer.…
After two opposites find comfort in each other and have an instant connection but can't be together, they collide again months later and get a second chance at love || August Walker and Jasmine Kelly are complete opposites, but both have closed their hearts to love. One night, August walks into a frantic Jasmine at midnight, who is fleeing her stalker ex-boyfriend. After walking her home, the two open their hearts to each other, act on their undeniable instant chemistry and spend the night together, except Jasmine leaves without a word before August wakes up to save him the hurt of her situation.Months later, and neither August nor Jasmine can get the other out of their minds. That is, until another midnight chance meeting. They both find that sometimes, love and fate work in tandem, and the best things can happen at midnight.***ONC 2024 - Prompts: 12, 24 and 27…
When Mila finds out she's pregnant from a one-night stand with a reluctant prince, she is thrust into a fake romance with him; are her feelings that grow for him genuine or for his way of life that ensures her baby stability?|| Down-on-her-luck Mila Kennedy had been looking forward to a quiet life on the southern English coast after graduating. Until her boyfriend dumped her, leaving her devastated and unsure.Annoyed at being bumped down the line of succession to the British throne after his sister had a family, Prince Kai Abbott loathed royal life. Reluctantly following procedures and engagements in the Abbott name left him so exhausted that he found solace in going to bars in disguise. A chance meeting between Mila and Kai leads to a one-night stand that leaves Mila pregnant. Realising that she's expecting a royal baby, both Kai and Mila are thrust into the chaos of a show whirlwind romance to protect royal reputation. With the British public a flutter with news of a royal romance, all eyes are on Mila and Kai, but behind the scenes, there is more drama and tragedy afoot within the royal family. Kai and Mila may face more than just a quick wedding and a baby; can they survive it or will there be a royal disaster?© Copyright Alexandra Orchard 2023 | EXCLUSIVE TO WATTPAD***FEATURED by @storiesundiscovered @mediadirectory and @wackywriters…
2022 WATTYS SHORTLISTED || After being forced into a marriage by her devoutly religious parents, Aspen's husband is diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, and she must find her purpose as well as fight feelings for her husband's nurse. || Aspen Watkins grew up in a devout Christian family, despite not believing herself. When she falls pregnant at eighteen by her boyfriend, Joel, they are forced to wed by her family so they can atone for their sin.Two years later, Joel is taken ill. Aspen soon learns that he's been lying to her since they met - he actually has a life-limiting condition. She quickly learns that it's not just Joel that the disease affects and the sins they thought they'd atoned for come back to haunt them both. Aspen finds an empathetic ear in the form of her husband's nurse, Nicholas Knight, who also had a surprising link to her life. He has her questioning everything she ever knew and helps her separate her past from her present.When tragedy strikes, Aspen learns that in order to move on, she needs to shake off the shackles of her past and find a new meaning of life after loss along with a new family who accept her for who she is.© Copyright Alexandra Orchard 2021 || EXCLUSIVE TO WATTPAD***FEATURED by @romance @PsychologicalNovel @NA @wattpadlitfic @storiesundiscovered @booksgottalent @freethelgbt and @newadultreadsWattys 2022 ShortlistedWinner in the NA category in the Amby Awards 2022…
SEQUEL TO ROYALLY BUMPED || After a whirlwind of a year, Mila Abbott is finally enjoying her life as a princess and mother. As wife to the new first in line to the British throne, Mila is adjusting to juggling royal work and being a mother, and the papers following her every move.With the royal family finally in a peaceful state after losses, a wedding and a birth, the press is hungry for a story. Their target is the Prince and Princess of Wales, who have yet to produce another child a year after their surprise first. Britain is suddenly alight with rumours of Kai and Mila needing to produce a male heir, and the King of England is not happy. Little do they know, the Royal Family is full of secrets, all of them bound to bring more news. Just as Mila thought she was adjusting to her new whirlwind life, a second lot of dramas are coming her way.**ONC 2024Prompts: 99 [main], 14 and 52…
[ONC 2022 SHORTLISTER] She was running from something while he was running to something. When strange circumstances throw them together, they realise that home isn't just where you sleep at night. When Lily Gilmore visits her family home over Christmas, she didn't expect to be humiliated and broken by her old childhood friend. Embarrassed and not wanting to spend another moment around her past, she gets the last train back to Cardiff, where she studies at university. Wyatt Larsen was coming from France to see his family in Cardiff, where his sister is terminally sick, and over Christmas, he got the first flight he could. He manages to get the very last train from the airport, but it won't be back in Wales until very early morning.Being in a train overnight is never fun, but being on a long train ride in the middle of the English countryside when the train stops because of a blizzard? That's even worse. That is, until Wyatt and Lily form a unique bond over their different circumstances that led them to be on that last train home.** 2nd DraftFOR ONC 2022PROMPT 89: You thought you still had a chance with your childhood friend, but he's getting married a month from now.FEATURED by @wattpadlitfic @wattpadmulticultural @NA and @storiesundiscoveredCover by @avadel…
All Willow wants for Christmas is for her best friend Lucas to kiss her. The one thing she doesn't expect is for him to ask her what she wants for Christmas. When her answer is ambiguous, she hopes he'll take the hint and realise what she feels.FEATURED by @coffeecommunity 'Espresso' reading list and @romance "Love Bites" Reading list and @storiesundiscovered "Lunch Hour Shorts" reading list (Oct 2022)…
FEATURED by @nonfictionFor my nonfiction assignment in 2014, I was asked to write a creative nonfiction piece. I chose to write a memoir.My Grandpa was diagnosed with dementia in 2013. Between the diagnosis and when I moved to university I was his (and my grandma's) full time carer (and part time after my move). At first the dementia was slowed, but it soon became worse.Because of this, and the amazing stories he used to tell us, I wanted to do a memoir piece for, and of, him. I spoke to him a lot, remembered old things with him and looked at photos with him and my Grandma for this piece.I did end up submitting this, and my grade was a 1st (top marks basically lol). After I finished it, I gave it to my Grandma and Grandpa. My Grandma kept it and loved it. I think Grandpa loved it, though at that time, he didn't really take in things that he read, because of the dementia.My Grandpa died Christmas Eve 2017. I now consider this a homage to him.…