Elijah Richard

just another aspiring author (he/him) | NSFW (at times) | tag game, tag list, and ask friendly (:

[elijahrichardwrites]

Writerblr Introduction (11/10/22)

I figured it was about time to update my writeblr introduction so here we go!

Meet me, the writer:

Hi! My name (as well as my pen name) is Elijah Richard but most people call me Eli or occasionally Ellie (although I respond to pretty much anything)!

My pronouns are He/Him but I don't mind being called any

I'm currently 22 years of age

I am ask/dm/etc friendly! I love when people send me things in my askbox so if you ever want to ramble about your WIPs or OCs, use and abuse it, please (:

Tag game/ask game/tag list/ask event days friendly! Sometimes I get really busy and it takes me a while to respond (or sometimes I miss it entirely, I apologize!) but I still love it nonetheless

I've been writing since I was about 12, despite hating writing in my early years. Ask me about why I got into writing, it's one of my favorite stories to tell (;

I am also the founder of @nathrheimpublishing. It has been my dream to open up a publishing house and Nathrheim is the result of that. I love it a lot so expect plenty of posts about any activity going on over there (:

Things I enjoy writing:

Expect pretty much all of my WIPs to contain some sort of fantastical element to them. Fantasy is the backbone of my writing and my works reflect that.

Angst. Lots of it. Apologies if that's not your cup of tea. I am much too fond of it haha

Many of my stories have horror elements to them, particularly psychological horror. As well as some gore, mainly all sorts of bloodiness.

I often write about various types of trauma therefore the majority of my works include very dark themes. Although I try to have lighthearted moments to break up the heaviness.

Found family or family dynamics make up a big part of my WIPs.

I like making my characters suffer <3

LGBTQ+ characters, whether I outright state which part of the community they belong to. My characters are quite like me in that regard, somewhat unlabeled. Although many of them are queer in some sort of way.

I like large, somewhat convoluted plots. The goal is to make it make sense in the end but do keep that in mind as you peruse my works.

"Happy" endings. And no, I will not elaborate further (:

What I post:

I'm currently working on the rough draft for my WIP with the placeholder title of Nite & Daye. I've posted some information in regards to some of the lore and character introductions. I'm also posting snippets of it as I write it. You can find more info about it here (keep in mind the WIP intro needs to be somewhat updated), as well as join the taglist if you'd like!

I have another WIP, a high/dark fantasy story, I actively work on that I plan on posting more about. The first book is titled Unveiled Dissolution and you can find the WIP intro here.

I also post random things, mainly in regard to my own writing, as well as writing memes if that is up your alley!

[san1tarium-deactivated20220109]

Me: I should message my mutuals, I want them to know i want to be friends

Also me: actually im just gonna like a post they reblogged and hope they get the hint

[marigoldispeculiar]

Storyteller Saturday

I miss doing it, so if you want me to put a writing-related question in your inbox, reblog or reply to this post and I'll try to get around to it later today!

(Also if you have any questions, I would love them in my inbox, too)

[transman-badass]

-writing and grinding my teeth- I give myself permission to write like shit. I give myself permission to write like shit. I give myself permission to write like shit. I give-

[elijahrichardwrites]

Just realized I still need to give Nite & Daye a proper title🧍

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

[lencore-deactivated20150427]

*likes your post* a great interaction, we are truly bonding

[nathrheimpublishing]

Nathrheim Publishing Update (1/9/2023)

Okay, so it's been a while - the holidays hit us like a truck, and also things are going slower than planned. In the ongoing interest of transparency, don't worry - we haven't fucked up, but the government and UPS predictably have, so @elijahrichardwrites is currently practically engaging in a guerilla war with half of this country's institutions to get our damn filing in so we can actually get things going.

In the meantime, we've finished a snazzy logo and banner to distract you with. Ooh, shiny!

Hang in there with us, we're working on it, and pray to whatever deities you may believe in that the government/UPS miraculously has a day where it just works as intended, bc I think that qualifies as miraculous territory :P

[elijahrichardwrites]

will Eli actually get done today the things he's been saying he wants to get done? the world may never know

[elijahrichardwrites]

In wanting to talk about my WIPs more, here's this bit for all of you:

A lot of my OCs have accents since, y'know, most people have some sort of accent. And I often think about the type of accents they would have. So for a specific example with Nite & Daye, with the City of the End being home to many different types of people/cultures, there's quite the amalgamation of accents. Like Aleah comes from her world's version of France, so she has somewhat of a french accent. Daye doesn't really have a french accent but it occasionally comes out with certain words. Nite's, however, is slightly more prominent but isn't anything intense.

Anyways, what I wanted to get to was the fact that Silver has a bit of a country/southern twang and I absolutely love it. And mind you, the City of the End is located mainly in what would be Europe so there are not a lot of Americans (Meries as they're called) in the City so everyone is running around with mainly European/Asian (referring to continents in this context) influences in their accents and then there's just Silver being like "howdy y'all" 🧍‍♂️

[elijahrichardwrites]

Okay I'm going a little ramble/vent below the cut so here's your fore-warning haha. Just want to get some thoughts and such out there

So I've been thinking lately about how I feel like I don't talk about my writing a lot and I often feel bad about it because this writeblr is meant for me to just go on about my WIPs. I just,, I get Weird(TM) feelings about it and I think it in part has to do with past events I've unfortunately had to deal with.

I used to be super confident in my writing (derived mainly from naivety and arrogance that comes with being a beginner writer) and I enjoy writing/talking about my writing. However I eventually gained "friends" who either disregarded my writing, put me down to make them feel about their projects, would constantly try to "fix" my writing, steal/copy from me, etc etc. Y'know, the works.

So unfortunately due to all this, I lost confidence in my ability to write and produce good content and I began to hate my writing. Often to points have wanting to trash anything/everything I ever wrote and giving it up as a whole. Luckily, I was able to get help (and deal with mental health struggles I was dealing with in general) and thanks to that, I was able to return to writing.

I also eventually joined writeblr and I've been able to feel better about my writing and finally have passion back into sharing my stuff because while I had gotten back into writing, I was still terrified of sharing my works.

So while I'm getting there, I just have a hard time just randomly (and maybe not so randomly, idk) talking about my stuff without being promoted first. I think my goal moving forward is to try and share whatever comes to mind (or what have you) in regards to my WIPs, regardless of if I think people are going to think I'm annoying or something along those lines.

I don't know, I just felt like it was something I need to get off my chest haha. I see so many wonderful people on here who will jump on any chance they can talk about their stories and I both love and greatly admire them for doing so. I just wish I could gather up the gumption to do the same haha

[fanghusband]

may your 2023 be vampiric and homoerotic

[elijahrichardwrites]

just a general question for blorbo blursday— who would you consider your main blorbos from your wips & who do you think future fans/audiences would claim as their blorbos? are they the same?

Love me some good general questions >:) but how are you doing, Ren? Writing/art going well?

Also thank you for the ask <3

who would you consider your main blorbos from your wips & who do you think future fans/audiences would claim as their blorbos? are they the same?

For the sake of not having this be too long, I'm just sticking with my main 2 WIPs, Nite & Daye and Unveiled Dissolution (:

My main blorbos from N&D are Nite, Soz, & Vell and my main blorbos from UD are Ayre, Silence, & Vex.

Based on what I've seen so far, I would absolutely not be surprised if a lot of people chose Nite as their blorbo! I think Aleah and Silver might be big ones too but I could absolutely see Nite and/or taking home the trophy as like #1 blorbo or something haha.

For UD, I can see a lot of people claiming Silence but with the massive cast of characters (yes, technically even bigger than N&D), it's kind of hard to tell? I think each character are very relatable in lots of different ways that I can for see the blorbo crown being split several different ways (':

As for the last question, I can see a lot of them being the same but with my obsession of creating a slightly large cast with plenty of diversity, I think it'll be an interesting outcome if that makes any sense haha

[elijahrichardwrites]

Didn't get a single thing done that I wanted to last night since I wasn't home... yet again haha

In other news, it's the blorbo day so ask box is open (:

[nathrheimpublishing]

Introducing Nathrheim Publishing, and a sneak peek at our first project!

Happy Halloween! @elijahrichardwrites, @fearofahumanplanet, @bpdgotmelike, and @thenightmarewrites are eager to announce our latest project - Nathrheim Publishing House, an independent punk publishing house with the goal of uplifting marginalized voices, radical leftist perspectives, and other works that find themselves struggling to gain representation in an otherwise insular and restrictive market.

Our goals?

To seek out and publish marginalized & othered voices of any sort - are you a POC? LGBT? Disabled, visible or not? Suffering a stigmatized disorder (Cluster B folks, line right up)? Lower-class? Any sort of outcast? You're the exact sort of people we're looking to represent. We feel there aren't enough perspectives on the market, and we want to change that.

An approachable, transparent business style. All too often, publishing houses are downright opaque about their intent and their work process, and it's hard to really get your foot in the door when no one will even inform you why you're being rejected. We aim to defy that norm.

We aim to particularly represent daring, provocative, rebellious, offbeat and all-around "weird" voices. Have you been told your work wouldn't sell? We think it will, and we're willing to put money on the line to prove it. We do not require an agent - if you have a story you want published and no one else wants it, send it right to us, we'll take a look.

Please reblog for visibility!!!

We are not open for submissions yet - for now, we plan on publishing our first book and fundraising the money required to take on other authors and publish them too. When we do take submissions, we are especially interested in works from the writeblr community as well as all categories listed above! As for our first book...

Jane Doe's Karma Killer, more info to come :)

Cover art credit to sewercryptid, https://www.artstation.com/sewercryptid

[minutiaewriter]

Find the Word Tag

Thank you @late-to-the-fandom for tagging me!

Words: final, relief, temper, wine, guest

Tagging: @elijahrichardwrites @i-dont-write-as-often-as-id-like @writingpotato07

Your words are: flower, chaos, storm, blush, and smoke

I will of course be finding these words in Hera: To Catch a Star, so let's get to it!

Final:

" They reached the sunbeam-tipped crowns of a few more dunes when finally the ship came into view amongst a ring of hills. Yojackson turned almost completely around in his seat to be certain their pursuers had given up and the speeder collided with a decently sized dune. They were all thrown from the vehicle and Rynn, [Priestess], and Kilderan cried out. "

Relief:

" The woman began to choke and after the fit ceased, she responded, “She…she…” She cast her eyes toward the blue sky, so oblivious to the tragedy unfolding beneath its cheerful wings. “She escaped.”

[Priestess] sighed in relief. "

Temper:

You're telling me no one loses their temper in this book? Really? I couldn't find the word, so...

Wine:

In a story where alcohol and taverns are basically a second home to Rynn and his companions, it's odd that this word never showed up once! Perhaps later in the trilogy they'll be drinking something higher-class than cheap beer...

Guest:

....And guest was not found either! Oh well.

Ok so there were really only two sneak peeks, but that's ok! I hope you enjoyed this little blip!

Thanks again for the tag, and be sure to stay tuned for Hera: To Catch a Star coming this February!

[elijahrichardwrites]

I absolutely love your writing 🥺

And can we talk about the description of the dunes??

[thollandss-deactivated20231215]

reblog to send your mutuals a hug. maybe just the thought is enough to cheer them up 🥺