-MilaSteele

I've completed a short story for the Pride Awards! It's a vampire story inspired largely by the canceled Netflix series, First Kill. This is basically my 3rd or 4th attempt at writing a vampire story LOL, and on top of that, I only wrote and planned this story of roughly 5k words in a total of 4 days, so it's pretty messy haha. 
          	
          	The story *does* have the dreamlandbooks tag, for those who are in Dreamland and are participating in the summer challenge event. 
          	
          	https://www.wattpad.com/story/412979693?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=-MilaSteele

KateNotGreat

@-MilaSteele congratulations, Mila!! I cant wait to read it!
Reply

-MilaSteele

I've completed a short story for the Pride Awards! It's a vampire story inspired largely by the canceled Netflix series, First Kill. This is basically my 3rd or 4th attempt at writing a vampire story LOL, and on top of that, I only wrote and planned this story of roughly 5k words in a total of 4 days, so it's pretty messy haha. 
          
          The story *does* have the dreamlandbooks tag, for those who are in Dreamland and are participating in the summer challenge event. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/412979693?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=-MilaSteele

KateNotGreat

@-MilaSteele congratulations, Mila!! I cant wait to read it!
Reply

-MilaSteele

So it's the final week of Pride month, and Wattpad decides to showcase ONLY bxb stories on their homepage banner? Not even a following banner for the gxg pride spotlight list?? How does that even make sense. I know it's not subtle to anyone that bxb gains more attention and popularity largely due to straight women fetishizing bxb content, and it's just sad to see that Wattpad seemingly isn't being genuinely supportive of ALL queer content, especially GXG. It's just frustrating and disappointing. They could have simply included 2 banners for bxb AND gxg. Nothing at all against the bxb stories, this is just me voicing my frustration at nobody in particular as a sapphic author. 
          
          Alright till next time lol

KateNotGreat

@-MilaSteele it is genuinely frustrating and disappointing. I am upset right there with you.
Reply

Mondgesicht

this message may be offensive
@-MilaSteele I mean the fetishizing of queer men and gay relationships, especially by cis straight women is a big reason why bxb stories are so popular. And it really begins at the need for people to know “who’s the top and who’s the bottom”. The constant asking for smut and false use of queer language. A lot of these stories are not popular because people want to see queer people but because they want to see men in stories. The vast majority of people reading stories are women and a lot of them are (purely) into men and cis. So of course they can somewhat resonate with these stories in the sense of liking men. And let’s not even begin with the huge role that misogyny plays in this whole construct. A lot of people reading queer books don’t read them because they are actually supporting queer stories. 
            And wattpad just resonates with what the people read and not what the queer community and queer people actually represents. Wattpad just isn’t a platform that’s actually actively supporting and uplifting queer voices. They just portray and show stories that their users read instead of looking at the representation, broadness of the queer community and the quality of these stories when it comes to how the queer characters are written. And if the readers like mlm stories where one man is being made the “woman” in the relationship, where they are being used as characters easy to fetishize, where queer terms are being misused, where every female character is seen as a “bad person” and where people can satisfy their fantasies, then websites like wattpad represent exactly that.
            And I really hate it, cause there is so much more to us then being objects that are there to entertain others. Sadly our pure existence is political and people use us to fulfill the fantasies of others. And I actually have a lot against many mlm stories, authors and readers. Cause a lot of them are doing nothing but harm us as a community and as people (They can seriously go fuck themselves).
Reply

-MilaSteele

Hi guys! I have some exciting news to share!
          
          One of my stories, Beating Only For You, has been added to the official Wattpad GXG Pride Spotlight reading list! This is such an amazing and special moment for me, and thank you to wattpad for featuring me!
          
          If you guys want Arcane references, tragedy, gore, zombies, and spice, this short 21k read is for you!
          
          Check out the reading list linked below!
          
          And of course, HAPPY PRIDE! 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/list/1723193433?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading_list&wp_page=reading_list_details&wp_uname=-MilaSteele 

-MilaSteele

Hi, how's everyone? Hope you are all doing okay!
          
          This has been a bit overdue, but I'm happy to say that Colliding Shadows was picked as round 2 Amb Pick and When the Stars Collide is a round 2 winner for ONC!! This is such a huge accomplishment for me, because the most i had back at my first and last ONC 2024 was longlisting, so this was such an amazing result!! 
          
          Anyway, that's all for now! 

00harleyquinn00

Hii, is the book 2 of bossed into a deal published???

-MilaSteele

@00harleyquinn00 hi! Book 2 is being slowly updated and will unfortunately be on hold for a few months unless i move it to a different book. 
Reply

-MilaSteele

I did it! I competed When the Stars Collide for ONC round 3 at around 32k words and managed to submit it, thankfully! I will be expanding it a lot and turning it into a novel, I am not sure if I will submit it for wattys this year unfortunately due to recent mental health "complications". There are a lot of things I've skipped in the novella, and it's very rushed lol, so if you want to wait and read the novel, you're more than welcome to (but comments are obviously very much appreciated on the novella anyway so i can have more help in determining what and how to fix) 
          
          Thank you SO much to wattpadcreators for adding BOFY to their featured horror stories list!!! It was such a nice surprise, omg. And chicklit for adding Espresso Shot Through the Heart to the Amb picks! 
          
          Also huge thanks to @-DeeIsDead- for giving me the motivation to write WtSC. Without them, I don't think I would have been able to make it. 
          
          And that's all for now! I am doing a little better now, at least enough to come back online, and thank you to everyone who has wished me well <33

-MilaSteele

Hi guys,  hope everyone is doing good! I have some stuff to cram into a short message. 
          
          My mental health has spiraled again into a pit. My anxiety and other stuff have just been a nightmare to overcome on the daily and im honestly hanging on by a thread. Plus I've been blacking out at night more than a few times for the past 2 or 3 weeks and the unexplainably insane brain fog most of that time so what's up with that??? 
          
          With that said, I might be going offline here and there, and updates may be slow. When the Stars Collide should hopefully be complete as a novella by April 30th. Please note it will be expanded into a novel by this July .
          
          I Pucking Hate You will resume in May. It will remain as a novella. 
          
          Lethal Love should be finally fully up by this July. 
          
          And that's all for now. Thank you to those who still remain by me thru everything and continue to support me, love you guys

kae-ruby

@-MilaSteele Sending a million hugs! Get lots of resting ❤️
Reply

Glory_feeling2

@-MilaSteele Hi! Take all the time you need to get better! What matters most is yourself! Been in a position like that before, so it does take time to heal. Take Care!
Reply

-MilaSteele

          Hellooo everyone! 
          
          The Boot Camp Mentors are back for their sixth season of awesomeness! I’m excited to be participating as a Boot Camp Mentor this year, especially since this is my first time and I'm beyond thrilled to have this opportunity. I encourage you to check out the @bootcampmentors profile and get involved in discussions. They have an active community happening in the BCM Discord server too! (link found in their bio) This is a totally free thing, so don’t forget to share the news with your writing cohorts!
          
          
          

kae-ruby

@-MilaSteele YAY! That’s super exciting, and I know you’ll do awesome as a mentor!
Reply