November 14, 2023 will be the 10 year anniversary of the November 14, 2013 murder of my 8 month old infant son, at BugLight Lighthouse Art Studio of Southern Maine Community College in South Portland, Maine. If you have any information about who his killer is, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207-774-9322

NEVER FORGET:

My Son Was Murdered, The Killer Walks Free, Your Child Could Be Next!


FAQ: What are the most visited pages on this website and how many visits do they get?

Several years ago, I wrote an article on how to write different types of magic uses, or rather how I personally write various types of magic users within the context of my Quaraun books. Today that page is one of my top ten most visited articles. It gets 50 to 500 views/reads/hits/visits per day depending on the time of the years and has had over 200k visits total since it was published.

Amphibious Aliens: Debunking The Atwater Family's Alien Abduction Hoax with more then 30MILLION reads since 2007 and The GoldenEagle: Debunking Stephen King's World's Most Haunted Car Hoax with over tenMILLION reads since 2007 still rank as the two most visited articles on my website, but, neither of those are writing related.

Writing Medieval Servants is my most visited writing related article with over 7MILLION reads.

This website was started in 1996 and has 1 to 3 new articles (all written by me, I am the only writer on this site) published almost daily. In 2017 we crossed ten thousand articles published. As of 2023, EACH article gets MINIMUM 10 to 70 reads PER DAY, with the high traffic articles getting 500+ reads per day.

And since December 2019, my website now gets three hundred thousand to 7 million reads per month - well over ONE HUNDRED MILLION PAGE READS PER YEAR, making it not only the single most trafficked site in the State of Maine, but also one of the most visited websites in ALL OF NEW ENGLAND!

{{{HUGS}}} Thank you to all my readers for making this possible!



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Your World: Cultures And Architecture | EelKat's Guide To World Building - The Squidoo Series



By EelKat Wendy C Allen

Author of Cozy & Gothic Fantasy, Sweet/Fluffy M/M Furry Romance, Cosmic Horror, Space Opera, & Literary SoL genres. I write Elves, Fae, Unicorns, & Demons.


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Your World: Cultures And Architecture | EelKat's Guide To World Building - The Squidoo Series

What kind of architecture is there in your world? For most people, when you hear the word architecture the first thought is big buildings: pyramids, skyscrapers, Gothic cathedrals and the like. Architecture, however is so much more than big landmarks. Architecture is a part f everything that is built by people. This includes such things as streets, street signs, board walks on the beach, houses, home decor, landscape gardening, etc. So, when is comes to architecture in you world, have you given it any thought? What will it look like?

Architecture doesn't have to be big. Even a primitive tribe of cave men will have architecture. Just think of the cave drawings. How does one cave woman lay out her furs? Is it different than how cave woman #2 does it? Even the tiniest home decorating details are part of the architecture found in your world.

Don't forget that each city/town/village is going to have different styles, tastes, and culture too. A common failing in world creation is to have every village in every realm of your world be nearly the same. How many times have you read about a wandering wizard who goes from one village to the next and every village has the exact same tavern with a different name? Than he finds the same style blacksmyth in each village and the king always lives in the same style palace.

Does every village he visits have the same cobblestone streets? Why are some of them not brick? Or gravel? Did you know that many old time fishing villages paved their streets with ground clam shells? (Some still do, esp in Maine. These beautiful glisten white roads are rare, but amazing when you see them, and boy do they stand out and tell a story of the village.) Are any of your fishing villages paved with remains of the local shell fish? Did you know that from the 1800s into the 1970s the streets of Old Orchard Beach, Maine were paved with crushed clam shells?

Does every village in your world have the same tiny thatched roof houses? Are they always the same size and laid out in the same order? It's a common mistake, and few writers even notice they do it.

Now let's take a look at the real world. Say your wizard lives on earth. First he leaves England and heads to France. He'll probably travel through a few sheep farms and farming hamlets to get there. These are not likely to have taverns in them, and may not have more than 4 or 5 thatched roof houses. Once in France he'll have to cross pass a few dairy/cheese farms and grape vineyards, long before he ends up in the village. And once he reaches a French Manor-house (castle) he'll be dwarfed by the shear magnormous size of them. Now lets say he leave Europe and heads to China. He'll have to go past several cultural and architectural changes before he reaches China. Once in China he'll see such things as Pagodas and Shrines. Your wizard may very well suffer from culture shock.

Now let's take your wizard back to your fantasy world. How many cultures are there REALLY in your world? One? Two? Unless there has been a massive Armageddon event of some sort, it is not going to be believable that your fantasy world has anything less than two or three hundred cultures in it, at the very least. Now granted you don't have to mention all of them in your story, but neither should you at like they are not there either.

Let's look at that wandering wizard again. He has finally come home and settled down. Four or five years have passed since his traveled the world and now it's the time of your story about him. His young apprentice is looking around the house and spies a shelf filled with strange nick-knacks: a jade Buddha statue perhaps? Maybe an Eiffel tower shaped trinket box? A Aboriginal boomerang? These are all strange and odd architecturally shaped items, completely out of place and out of culture for your wizard, but they are things which he brought back with him from his travels around the world. They not only represent your wizard's lifestyle, but they tell a little bit about the various cultures in the world as well. They also tell your reader a little bit about your world's architecture without your story having to go to each place. All you wizard has to do is retell a quick two or three sentence long tale about what the item is. You now have far away places for your apprentice to dream about.

Take a look around your own bedroom. What do you see? I'll look around my room. You know what I see? A French Louie style chair. A tapestry from Persian. Several kimonos from Japan. A Mongolian sheepskin coat. Bamboo curtains. A Spanish model pirate ship. A bright colored charger (plate) from Mexico. I live on the Maine coast and a lot of local sea shells and drift wood are all over my room too. In my room you see local culture as well as culture from all over the globe. The architecture in my bedroom is influenced by many cultures. I'll bet your bedroom is a mix of influences too. Now look at your main character's bedroom. How has the cultures of his fantasy world effected the architecture of his bedroom?

What this all boils down too, is, do not forget when creating your world, that a planet is big and will have hundreds of societies on it, each with it's own style and habits, and those cultures will affect your characters even if your story never leaves your main characters bedroom. So know your world's architecture and make sure it's blended in.






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Eye of the GrigoriIf you ever made fun of or had any part in the destruction of my farm, and the illegal selling of half of my land to Colliard, you shall lose your land.
tent2.JPGIf you ever made fun of or had any part in my being homeless since 2006 - YES, I AM still homeless in 2023, you shall become homeless.
eelkats_house_before_after.jpgIf you ever made fun of or had any part in the backhoe driving over my house, you shall lose your house.
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volvo-art-car-eelkat-Dazzling-Razzbury-3-artist-wendy-c-allen-painting3.pngIf you ever made fun of or had any part in my becoming crippled, you shall lose your health.
If you ever made fun of or had any part in the murder of my son, your child shall die an equally horrible death. If you haven't got a child to lose, it will be a brother or sister or parents or spouse or whomever you love the most, and that you should know it was this curse which you brought upon yourself that killed them, they will die on exactly the 7 year anniversary of the very first time, you mocked the death of my child.

Evil men go out of their way to try to drive a person to suicide.

Are you an evil man?

Are you sure you're not?

How many people have YOUR hate filled words killed?

Next time you go to do a mean thing to a fellow human, stop and really think about the consequences of your actions.

Did you ever notice how every one has a story to tell about me, yet not one of them ever speaks the truth?

What lies has YOUR gossiping tongue spread about me?

Did you know...

October 16, 2006, bomb blew up my house because of YOUR lies.

August 8, 2013, the house which replaced the one the bomb blew up, was driven over by a backhoe.

November 14, 2013, my 8 month old infant son was murdered because of your lies.

November 14, 2013, I was beaten up, paralized for 5 months, spent 18 weeks relearning to walk, I'm now crippled for the rest of my life, because of YOUR lies.

Are you proud of what you have done?

Enjoy your eternity in Hell. You earned it. You've certainly worked hard for it.

~EelKat


If you have any information about any of these events, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207-774-9322



EelKat's Guide to
World Building For Fiction Writers
The Complete Article Index

The list below are the original pages written in 2003 for a WordPress Blog, and republished on Squidoo in 2007:



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For help in creating characters in genre fiction try:





Even more articles have been written for this series since then:

As there are now more then 100 articles for this series, it now has it's own index page on which to list them all, as there are just too many to keep adding them to this end of article list. You can find the complete listing of all the World Building articles here now:

More on Worldbuilding In Fantasy Novels:



Books I Use When Creating Fantasy Worlds:
















*UPDATE: ADDED November 7, 2013 - I suppose one thing I should point out at this point, before we go any farther, is my use of the word fantasy throughout this series. The bulk of this set of articles was written 7 years ago in April of 2006, parts of it appearing on EK's Star Log and other parts of it appearing on my personal Squidoo account. In the 7 years since writing this I've received hundreds of emails regarding it. A common question asked being: "Why do you talk of building a fantasy world if you don't write Fantasy?"

ANSWER: Fantasy with a capital "F" is the name of a type of fiction, in other words Fantasy is a genre. I do not write Fantasy fiction of the Fantasy genre, that is correct. I do however create fantasy realms for my Science Fiction and Horror works. I write Dark Fantasy, which is a sub-genre of Horror and Space Fantasy which is a sub-genre of Science Fiction.

Did you see it? No? Let me point it out: I write about fantasy worls as the exist in Horror and Sci-Fi but I do not write about fantasy world as they exist in Fantasy Fiction.

If it is not real it is fiction, if it exists only in fiction it it fantastical, if it is fantastical it is a fantasy item, because it is not a real item, however being fantastical does not make it part of the Fantasy genre, just as not everything in the Fantasy genre is always fantastical in nature.

The word "fantasy" with a lower case "f" is a word that means "not real" and has nothing to do with the Fantasy genre (capital "F") at all. And therefore when I say "fantasy realm" I mean a world that is NOT the Earth on which you and I live on in the real world, and am in no way, shape, or form referring to the Fantasy genre.

The methods I use to create my fantasy realms can be applied to ANY genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Romance, Western, etc.



2013 World-Building Series UPDATE:

Due to issues with content scraping, outright plagiarism, some of my articles appearing on OTHER Squidoo member accounts without my permission, and many of my "Squidoo articles" being stolen off Squidoo and posted without my permission on various  blogs and sites including Wikipedia and Helium; all of my articles are in the process of being removed from Squidoo.

This series of World Building articles in one that has been heavily plagiarized over the years and as of September 2013, it can only OFFICIALLY be found here on EelKat.com - if you find it posted elsewhere, know it was stolen and I am not receiving royalties for it.


2014 Update:

As you know, or not, Squidoo owners Bonnie and Kimberly-Dawn stole thousands of Squidoo articles from Squidoo members, and tried to pass them off as their own, resulting in the lawsuit against Squidoo owners for the theft of tens of thousands of articles.

More than 100 of my articles were transferred off my Squidoo account and moved to Bonnie's account,

while my authorship and writing articles, including this world-building series were deleted off my Squidoo account and transferred to Kimberly-Dawn's account!

!!!!!!!

I am shocked and flabbergasted at what these 2 women have done. That they thought they could get away with stealing so many articles from so many authors! Buying Squidoo from Seth Godin, did not give then the rights to our articles and these two horrible women had no right to delete them off of our member accounts and republish them on their own accounts, trying to pass them off as their own.

More then 100 Squidoo authors have gathered together in lawsuit against Squidoo owners, Bonnie and Kimberly-Dawn. The result of that is, Bonnie and Kimberly-Dawn, to avoid their asses being sued to hell and back, have now transferred the Squidoo lenses back to their original owners and deleted the entire Squidoo website.

Squidoo is officially gone. It exists no more. Squidoo is dead. Most Squidoo writers have opted to move to Hub Pages as HubPages has bought the remaining shambles of what is left of Seth Godin's Squidoo after Bonnie and Kimberly-Dawn massaquered it in their article stealing frenzy.

While I do have a HubPages account and my remaining Squidoo Lenses can be found there temporarily, they are being moved here and deleted off HubPages as I move them


April 2017 UPDATE:

As of now, all on my 600+ Squidoo pages are now moved here to EelKat.com and no more are remaining on HubPages.

It's hard to believe, Squidoo has been gone for 4 years now. It was such a big part of my life for a decade.