Kit Elbritch

90's kid but 80 on the inside | 18+ Writer Blog | Ask + Tag Game friendly, on soft hiatus

[elbritch-kit]

Introduction! Hello Writeblr!

About me:

Names Kit! (they/she/he any will do!)

I'm 30

I mostly write queer normative fantasy but I went to school for literature so there's a lot of influences that leaks in.

Character focused, morally complex

Older audience, 18+ please (generally not for sexy reasons)

I take a second to warm up to people but ONCE I DO

Want to know more? Ask! 95% chance I'll answer within the day.

Main WIP

ToT (like tater tot but also yes cry emoji) -Editing

Genre: Fantasy, horror undertones

Tag: #ToT

Ezra, a world famous musician returns to the city he had left as an exile and a widower. He’s keen to get in and out, finish his next show and never speak to anyone from his past. Alas a string of assassinations and the tenacity of his ward steer him back into the world he was forcefully kicked out of. Not only must he collaborate with old comrades and keep well away from the undead monster that are infiltrating the streets, but he must unravel the mystery of his wife’s death and the deadly plague that had died with her.

Warhammer - First Draft

Genre: Fantasy in space, horror overtones

Tag: #GhostQueen

Sandrine has had enough of family and war. It’s why she built a cryo pod and why she volunteered herself as the first person to freeze. She really wouldn’t have minded if the experiment was a failure and she never woke up. But alas, 200 years later, the war is over. The planets wide monarchy has stabilized and she’d really rather not reintroduce herself into that mix. But her life has proven that even centuries can’t get her away from her problems and neither can a career change. Who knew becoming an exorcist on a cross planet cruise ship would result in her meeting her famous and very long dead girlfriend? Now she must deal with ghosts, literal and not, all while staying as far as possible from the title of Rightful Queen.

Other WIP's

Traitor - Novela Series (Part 1-Editing. Part 2-Editing. Part 3- Drafting)

Flash Fic every 2 months or so

[elbritch-kit]

Editing the WIP and while i do not love line edits. I think what I like less is seeing whole scenes and being like... ah... I must rewrite and condense that. I'm so done with this WIP and yet I must REWRITE things

[thatsbelievable]

[prophetic-writer]

Writing is all fun and games until you have to describe a room.

[elbritch-kit]

Going to Worldcon and pretty sure I have to channel the student I was a decade ago and write notes

[prophetic-writer]

being a writer when its hot is like sorry :/ the words are hibernating until winter

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like

[roach-works]

look, here’s the thing: alice in wonderland’s enduring fucking charm is that it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense.

alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away, given gifts she didn’t ask for and doesn’t like, corrected incorrectly, been subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl’s temper is the end of the fucking world.

alice in wonderland isn’t a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that’s just what being ten years old is LIKE. that’s why kids love it so much. even if they can’t quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.

[incomingplottwist]

[acertainmoshke]

I am thinking so much about magical illnesses today. Specifically illnesses brought about by magic, as a side effect. Like you know how agent orange exposure in war can cause Parkinson’s years later? Fire magic that doesn’t kill you unless you’re caught directly in the blast but twenty years later you find yourself choking on smoke, your scars burning. Poison or plant magic to hinder armies that leave seeds/spores/some trace in your body that grows vines around your organs if you make it out alive. Etc. please give me more ideas if you have them!

[winterandwords]

Nine Lines Nine People

Thanks to the lovely @indecentpause for the tag!

These lines are from Spin Cylinder (Noah's POV)...

And I wait for a make me or a fine then, but it doesn’t come. Instead, you reach into the glove box for the silver lighter that was once mine, then ours, now yours, although neither of us has ever acknowledged that out loud. Then the flare of the flame, the depth of your inhale and the cloud of smoke breathe familiarity and reassurance around me. I lower the window and you slide the cigarette between my fingers. It feels oddly disconnected. Or I do. All at once, I’m too many people and no-one at all. I smoke the testament to my failing willpower halfway down and hand the rest to you to finish while the road unwinds and carries us towards home. You shuffle around in your seat to stare through me and I want nothing more than to have something worth saying.

Tagging @frostedlemonwriter, @gaslightwestern, @i-can-even-burn-salad, @irisdonvolt, @isherwoodj

(new paragraph to appease the Turning Tags Into Links gods) @k--havok, @kaylinalexanderbooks, @lordfenric-writes and @mysticstarlightduck if you'd like to do it, with an open tag for anyone else who wants to join in 💙

Reblogs, replies etc on my tag posts are always welcome, but if you're doing this tag yourself, please make your own post instead of using mine to start a reblog chain.

[kosmic-kore]

born to write multiple books, forced to struggle with plotting

[flagellant]

I'm in my sisyphus era but I'm pretty sure I'm almost out of it

[flagellant]

aw hell

[winterandwords]

Writing share tag

Thanks to @kaylinalexanderbooks for the tag!

📝 Share some writing

I'm getting back in touch with the characters from Name From Nowhere after a little break, so here's a bit of Gillen and Rafe through Aria's eyes, which is one of my favourite things about writing this book...

If Rafe deals in terror, Gillen deals in pure hate. It’s chilling, but at the same time it’s almost beautiful. Rafe’s sitting on the desk by the door, keeping his hands busy with one of his knives. He throws it, spinning it and catching it by the blade perfectly each time like a machine, and something about him and Gillen as a couple makes sense in a way it didn’t until now.

Tagging @anthros-vanitas-archive, @ashfordlabs and @autumnalwalker if you'd like to do it, with an open tag for anyone else who wants to share some writing 💗

Reblogs, replies etc on my tag posts are always welcome, but if you're doing this tag yourself, please make your own post instead of using mine to start a reblog chain.

[prophetic-writer]

"How do you write such realistic dialogue-" I TALK TO MYSELF. I TALK TO MYSELF AND I PRETEND I AM THE ONE SAYING THE LINE. LIKE SANITY IS SLOWLY SLIPPING FROM BETWEEN MY FINGERS WITH EVERY MEASLY WORD THEY TYPE OUT. THAT IS HOW.

[themightyhumanbroom]

My average writing experience:

"Alright I think I'm almost done actually-"

*Google doc grows second health bar and a choir starts singing in latin*

[animentality]

[daisywords]

writing is so silly because you have to maintain the understanding that you're not more specialer than anyone else and your work needs improvement and you have more to learn. but also you have to fully believe that your stuff is amazing. mindblowing. masterpiece the likes of which no one has ever seen before. you really have to hold these contradictory beliefs next to each other and force them to play nice. it's like shoving your shoulder angel and devil into a "get-along shirt." It doesn't make any sense. But if you don't, you're not going to get anywhere

You have to pursue what your writing Could Be with dogged determination while unflinchingly perceiving what it Actually Is. You have to accept that you're not more deserving or likely to succeed than any other writer, but you also have to love and honor and cling to your own specific mad genius because no one else is going to do it for you. Writing is really hard and it's also really worth it.