For as long as I could remember I have always had a strong addiction to reading. As a child I was the cliché shy, quiet girl who would always have a book in hand and get lost in the world of the story until someone physically dragged me away. It was not until my freshman year of high school when I was introduced by a friend to the website titled Wattpad.com that I became a member of an amazing community that fit me perfectly. One of the main goals of the Wattpad discourse community is to inspire others through reading and writing. Many of the members are coming together for the birthday of this amazing community and sharing how Wattpad has impacted their lives. These outstanding stories range from a solider from the army overcoming PTSD, a girl obtaining a movie deal based on her novel, a group joining the fight against bullying, and even driving eighty two year old author Gwen Madoc back to writing. Though at first sight a website about books may not seem like much to examine, Wattpad.com exhibits characteristics of a discourse community in its own right. What started off as just a little website that was created seven years ago, has transformed into place of social media interaction and an area for undiscovered or unpublished writers to get their work noticed. Through this discourse community the members, writers and readers, are able to explore diverse genres of literature from poetry to fan fiction and interact similar to a social networking outlet, like Facebook. Wattpad is a unique discourse community and unlike any other. Due to the fact that it is partly composed of a social networking site, which can be considered a discourse on its own, members are not confined to just the United States and are given the opportunity to contact others in the community internationally. The members that make up this community are the writers and the audience, which are both fundamentally crucial in order to keep this discourse alive. This web