Cover for Crushed Hearts. Illustrated in flat color style, two men stand at the center of a track ring.

Crushed Hearts

Series: Crushed Hearts #1

Kae Ruby

Contemporary

Spiciness / Heat Level: 🍭

Representation: Bi, Trans masc

Wattpad: www.wattpad.com/story/372779...

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If today isn't a writing day, that's okay. Take care of yourself. Your words will still be there tomorrow #skywriters

so gorgeous :00

keeping myself on a daily writing goal is fun when I go way over. until I lost my streak and now everything sucks again.

thematic character names, setting names and made up words my beloved <3

do people typically self promo their WP stuff on here? maybe. idk. Will this move the needle on anything? maybe. idk. but I can do stuff, I guess. And I think it’s a pretty neat story, so there is that.

now that I can talk about it, here I shall say:

I have a Wattpad Original (a story you pay to unlock) coming at the end of February!

some of its features:

☺️ rivals to lovers
🥳 sports romance
🌈 LGBTQ+ representation

add it to reading lists here: www.wattpad.com/story/372779... in preparation!!

every single time 😞

so far I gotta say writing a sequel to a book people liked is far more terrifying than writing that first book

local teenage boy takes great pains to avoid having to confront his emotions, trauma dumps on the first guy that sees him, and turns his life upside down just to stargaze for a couple of hours a week.

chomping at the bit to write when real life gets in the way. then I have time again and I just stare at the blank page

it’s very fun when the drama is accurate too! reality seems obviously over dramatic when it sometimes isn’t

polishing the same chapter eleven times to feel something

specificity in writing is fun and hard because suddenly I’ll be forced to find out whether it was raining in November of 2019 for accuracy

as many artists as I can commission speedrun

I love talking about writing with other people. The ideas we can come up with when we sit down to have human conversations are beautiful and uniqueness is etched in every person’s experience. I just love when writing means ‘here is my soul in words’

since tiktok is gone (at least temporarily) this Canadian writer is hanging around #BookSky

so, if you like the following:

🌈 LGBTQ+ representation
🥰 Contemporary, realistic slice-of-life in fiction
🧬 Science!
✨ Silly jokes

I write these! And I joke about writing sometimes! Let’s be friends! 🙌

writing is really just the beginning (suffering), the middle (a slump), and the end (bad)

thank you so much !! 😊

Neon lights on a city street. It’s nighttime, and the lights reflect off the road in vibrant blue and purple. Buildings loom in the background.

My Wattpad short story won an award today from the Ambassadors 🥳
Low cyperpunk & identity.
“Doomed, lost creatures, fumbling in the empty drawers of our hearts, searching for hope like a misplaced wallet. Thinking maybe, maybe—if we steal enough money and space in the world, we can find a way out.”

sometimes before I sleep I become this epic level writer who seriously wants to dominate every genre and write an entire novella and also finish that series and then I’m awake the next morning like. be so for real

Writing advice:

Never finish writing a scene, because then you'll be stuck wondering what the next scene should be. Make your whole book one scene.

The only thing I can think of would be that if you do post in multiple places, some of them require a disclaimer that the work is also being updated elsewhere but that’s not a super huge deal!

I don’t think it would be if you want to go wide, tbh! Some of my writing friends use places where you get commission (like medium) as a way to offer readers to get ahead on the story if they want to support you + read chapters before they get posted on Wattpad/Tapas.

RoyalRoad might not be the best for erotic stuff, but it would suit the genre best. They love fantasy/sci-fi. Inkitt likes romance as the main genre so prob not there for sci fi.
Tapas or Wattpad could work with some promo. I’d only personally do Medium if you have an established audience but idk

What’s the genre? Depends on if it would be right for certain spaces!

“writing every day” otherwise known as waking up on day one, writing, deleting writing from the previous day on day two, and rinse and repeat forever

that cover is gorgeous !!

for those of you who can work on multiple writing projects at a time: how do

I try to write but I just think longingly