Your World: Plant Life 
EelKat's Guide To World Building - The Squidoo Series

Your World: Plant Life | EelKat's Guide To World Building - The Squidoo Series

• What kind of plant life is there in your world? 
• Lots of lush greenery? 
• Are plants rare? 
• Plentiful? 
• Fruit bearing? 
• Thorny? 
• Pretty but deadly? 
• Edible? 
• Poisonous? 
• Are plants "alive" and eat people?
• A little bit of all of the above?

• Are there many forests or is the woodland quickly disappearing? 
• Or is it a place where trees could never grow at all?

Life as we know it, requires plants to survive. We need them for food, vitamins, minerals, shelter, and even the air we breath. Plants are what create the oxygen in the air we breath.

Let's say for example you've create a barren world with no plant life at all. If your world doesn't have plants then it also doesn't have oxygen...so how do people breath? Did you think of that? You need to, because you can be sure your readers will think of it and if you don't explain to then how your people can live on a world devoid of planets, and therefore also devoid of oxygen, then you've lost that all important level of reality you need to keep your readers, reading to the end of the book. Either your people don't breath oxygen or they are wearing space suits that provide oxygen, or they have encased their city in a glass bubble and have machines making oxygen, or something else. However you explain it, it MUST be explained or you'll lose your readers fast.

You see quickly how important plants are when you realize that without them, we Humans would die from suffocation due to lack of oxygen.

We are dependant upon plants for our survival and the type of plants in your world will determine the type of humanoid life can exist in that world.

A world where plants are rare, will eat mostly meat. A word where plants are plentiful will be largely vegetarian. A world with an even mix of planets and animals will be omnivores.

Fewer plants also means fewer insects, fewer birds, and fewer animals Fewer plants is likely caused by lack of water or lack of rain.

>>>When using familiar species of flora and fauna from Earth.

>>>If I'm writing a fictional world with a totally different map that has magic in it, and I use a real life flora species in my fiction book, do I have to stay true to irl growing conditions like: it can only grow with lots of sunlight (and my fictional country is really gloomy and cloudy all the time)? Like I wanna use this plant but it can't technically grow here because of no sunlight.

>>>Should I just come up with my own fantasy names instead for the flora?

Many, many, many decades ago, way back when I was a teenager... I got hit with the "world building bug", and I spent several years not writing any stories, because I was too busy writing descriptions of everything in the universe... yes... universe.

I created a universe, with multiple solar systems, and at least 3 inhabited planets in each solar system, well over 100 different alien races/species, and built maps, and continents and countries and cities.

In some cities I made very detailed road maps with all the street names and houses and shops on the map, and every house had the name of who lived there, wither I ever intended to write about that person or not;

I started to create but didn't finish 3 "new languages" for 3 of the alien races; I spent weeks at the local hospital researching the medical books in the doctor's library that normally people aren't allowed to see, but I got permission from the staff because I was a published author doin research, and I created several new fictional illnesses based off real world illnesses;

and on 4 planets, I went so far as to start creating animals, birds, plants, bugs, flowers, trees ... in total I filled up 750+ 3-ring binders of lined college ruled paper and I still have those ring binders today, nearly 50 years later.

Was it a waste of time? No. Because those ring binders today are my most used reference books for the series I write, which I started publishing in 1978 and today spans 138 novels and 2,000+ short stories that are all set in that world which I built 50 years ago.

But here's what I learned over the years of publishing that series (which applies in your situation):

• * I never use the the 3 invented languages 

• * I don't use about 98% of the flora or fauna I created

• * out of several hundred plants I created, only 2 plants have ever appeared in any of the stories or novels (both are based off the real world plant: Monotropa uniflora – Ghost Plant, Indian Pipe, which grows locally to where I live, and can survive in our deep north, deep freeze, heavy fog, months of no sun, weather conditions. You will probably want to look up this plant as, from what you say, it may fit well into your story as it needs no sun, no light, no warmth, in order to grow. I chose it for my plant inspiration because I needed a plant that could grow in caves in an artic region, where snow and months of darkness prevail

• * out of more than a hundred animals/birds/fish/bugs/beasts created, fewer than 10 ever appeared in any story

• * while I don't use most of the fictional illnesses, one did go one to be a primary plot point that ran through the bulk of the series

• * I created a mind-bogglingly huge and detailed magic system, and while the main character and both of his 2 lovers are all 3 wizards who use this magic system, I almost never write them ever actually doing/using magic on the page. The series focuses on their daily life activities, and they don't use magic often in every day life, so while readers are told they CAN do this or that magic, the readers never see them actually do any magic, which ends up making all my charts and rules for the magic system, kind of pointless because I never have a need to use the charts to write any scene

Well, here's the thing...

Early on in the first few novels and short stories, I DID frequently mention the made up plants and animals, BUT, it never "felt" right when going back reading the stories. It felt like hey were just thrown in for the sake of throwing them in, and they never really did anything for the story or the plot. 

In short: they just plain felt out of place, like they didn't need to be there.

I'd say what the thing was "He saw a katopa run by" and than, I would have to stop the story to write a few paragraphs explaining to the reader, what the hell a katopa was. THAN, after pulling the reader out of the story immersion to tell them what a katopa was, now, I had to hope they still had enough left over immersion from before, to pick up the story where we left off and keep on reading from "He saw a katopa run by".

So, after 3 or 4 novels into the series, I started using them less and less and before I knew it I would just be saying generic things like "the forest" (let the reader imagine what trees are in there real or alien) or "the big old pine tree" (the reader knows what a pine tree is, no need to explain) or "he picked a red flower and gave it to her" (the reader knows it's a flower, they don't need to know what kind, real or fictional, they can imagine it themselves) or "he saw a blue striped gazelle like create run by, the locals called it a katopa" (tells the reader it's basically a blue gazelle, but it's alien, and let them imagine the rest) and just kept going. No more infodumps explaining what things were, no more pulling the reader out of immersion to introduce a fictional plant or animal complete with it's encyclopedia description. 

In the end, my older work, read pretty clunky BECAUSE of all the fictional plants and animals peppered into it, while my newer work flows a lot smoother and uninterrupted with out the fictional plants and animals, and just using generic real plants instead.

>>>When using familiar species of flora and fauna from Earth. If I'm writing a fictional world with a totally different map that has magic in it, and I use a real life flora species in my fiction book, do I have to stay true to irl growing conditions like: it can only grow with lots of sunlight (and my fictional country is really gloomy and cloudy all the time)? Like I wanna use this plant but it can't technically grow here because of no sunlight.

Here is a link to info and pictures of the plant I mentioned above, it may well be exactly the plant you are looking for or will inspire you (as it did me) to create a fictional version of it to fit your world:

https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/beauty/mycotrophic/monotropa_uniflora.shtml

>>>Should I just come up with my own fantasy names instead for the flora?

I would say yes and no.

Yes.

Make them.

Learn about your world.

It'll help you write. It really well. 

I wrote tens of thousands of descriptive words about my world, and none of those words will ever appear in any story or novel, but, they helped me to better visualize my world, so that I was better able to write the stories add just see the characters interacting with their world, without having to stop writing to ask "Does this look like that?" I just knew what things were and where things were, because I had spent so much time writing about them in the world building process.

I know there are a lot of people who say that detailed world building is a waste of time because you'll use so little of what you write, and maybe that is true on some levels, but for me I spent almost 10 years doing nothing but writing detailed descriptions of the world, and not writing the stories, and for some that may look like I wasted 10 years where I could have been publishing, but, to me, looking back at that, I don't feel those 10 years of world building were wasted years, because, I learned so much about my world, that now I am writing the novels set in it, I can move through this world, in my mind, like it was real, and I am able to write a smooth, uninterrupted flow as my characters move through this world. I wouldn't be able to do that had I not spent so much time world building before I started writing the actual stories set in it.

But at the same time. MOST of what I created for the world, I never use. I have a handful of things that I fall back on and use over and over again, but the rest, just sits there untouched, waiting for the day when someday, maybe, I might, possibly, use them in a story.

So, I also say no, don't make them.

Make the things you are pretty certain you have a high chance of using, but don't make things just for the sake of making them.

That was the trap I fell into with my world building. I got addicted to building every detail of the world, when most of the story is set in one small region that is barely 15 miles across.

The bulk of the story is set in a frigid deep north, a couple hundred miles south of the polar ice cap, and so, it's buried in snow, most of the year with only 2 or 3 months where the snow melt enough to let flowers bloom. And very few animals can live in the harsh year round blizzard conditions. 

And yet, I created dozens of plants and animals for deserts, dozens more for tropics, dozens more for prairies... you get the idea. I'll probably never use them, because I'll probably never write about the deserts or rainforests or prairies of my world. So, only the artic creatures and plants ever appear in the stories, and I really had no need to create the ones for the other reasons.

Do I regret creating the others? No.

I sometimes find a way to use them. Like one day a character is visiting a retired big game hunter and sees a blue and white striped gazelle like creature standing stuffed in his living room, and the MC asks what it is, and the old hunter tells the story of how this was "the last katopa" a creature from the savanna plains that is now extinct, but the last one is preserved as a record that they once existed, and this leads into him telling of his trip to that region and how he came to get this stuffed animal trophy he now has. The main characters don't ever leave their arctic region, but they are given a flashback story about another region in their world, and so once in a while, these other regions and their creatures appear in 1 or 2 novels of the series.

So, if you are writing a stand alone or a trilogy, than maybe just create what you need to use in the story and not go crazy overboard creating the entire plant system of the whole planet, like I did.

So, yeah, I'd say go for it, create new flowers for your world.

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Some additional thoughts on the FBI Murder Investigation of 144 & 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine:

How many murders are caused by cancel culture, have you ever wondered?
I have — because my son murdered by cancel culture, so I wonder this a lot.

I have never been able to wrap my mind around cancel culture. It has baffled me ever since I first discovered it, when the “God hates fags” group showed up in my yard to start a bonfire on my lawn and burn my books (I’m an author, 138 novels published since 1978) and I later found out the group had spent weeks on social media planning the event and gathering followers, because one minister got it into his head I was gay (I’m not) and write gay erotica (I don’t), and used gay hatred and white power rants (I’m not white, it’s the only thing they did get right) rants on Twitter to incite canceling of my supposedly gay erotica books (that were neither gay nor erotic) and get a mob to show up in my yard.

A week later a bomb blew up my house, I had to rebuild, a week to finishing rebuilding a backhoe drove over my house, 2 months (November 14, 2013) later a crazed woman with a golf club showed up at my college class shattered my spine and bashed my 8 month infant sons head in while screaming “transvestite freak” and claiming I (a cis female) was a “man in a dress”.

Because of Twitter’s cancel culture I homeless, now 11 years, I am crippled paralyzed unable to walk, now 11 years, and my son is dead and the FBI investigation of his murder is still going on these 11 years later, and the killer still walks free and unidentified, and the primary reason for being unidentified is there are over 30k people online who spread these false accusations of gay erotica and transgender about me and the FBI has to investigate EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, yes, ALL of them, yes, if you’ve ever posted hate about me online you ARE being investigated for your potential involvement in my son’s murder, and in 11 years, they’ve only made it a quarter of the way through that list, and not yet found golf club woman..

And the man who started it all, Peter something, is now the biggest YouTuber in Quebec and the biggest anti trans YouTuber on the planet, and has yet to be held responsible for starting the gay erotica and transvestite rumours about me on Twitter because, for some reason there are no laws that hold cancel cries accountable for the the death and destruction their hivemind followers do after being incited into a frenzy by the cancelers tweets.

Perhaps the issue is I am too old to understand the herd mentality of cancel culture, I grew up on a very isolated egg farm and I was 42 years old before cancel culture existed, or perhaps my not using social media causes me to not understand it.

But I wonder how many people out there are like me, lives destroyed by haters, who hate things about me, that aren’t even things I am or do, because they believe one cancelers lies on Twitter and never took the time to fact check before they reacted.

EVERYTHING We Are Allowed To Publicly Release About The FBI Investigation Can Be Found HERE

Do you know who this woman is?
If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

On November 14, 2013, she used a golf club to bash out the brains of my 8-month-old baby Xavier-Octavian Allen. She called herself “Claire” as though she thought I knew her, but I know no one named Claire and had never seen her before. She was about 65 years old and would be around 75 years old today in 2025. The FBI believes the woman who murdered my son is the same woman who hired the backhoe to drive over my house on August 8, 2013, a few weeks before my son’s murder.

If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

My house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, on July 4, 2013 and on August 8, 2013 after vandals drove a backhoe over it. The backhoe is still running in this photo, I got home from work while they were doing it and the white haired man jumped out and ran away leaving the backhoe running, until it ran out of gas. It sat in my yard for 6 months until the police finally towed it away.

She is the same woman who severed my spine with the same golf club used to murder my baby. She had distinctive two-inch wide stripes in her hair all the way around her head, platinum blond and dark reddish brown, in a pageboy haircut.

If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer,please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

Of the Portland, Maine FBI Office, 4th floor, Middle Street Portland.

FAQ: How Did the FBI get involved?

The FBI believes this woman who crippled me and murdered my baby on November 14, 2013, is connected to the backhoe that illegally drove over my house making me homeless on August 8, 2013.

Between June 2001 and continuing on into 2025, there have been over 200 violent attacks on 146 Portland Ave, Old orchard Beach, Maine, including the beheading of 75 pet roosters April 2007, whose headless bodies were hung in my rosebushes from rope nooses.

The FBI believes ALL of these events are being done in an attempt to drive me off my land. 

According to the FBI, in 2007, a developer went to the Old Orchard Beach Town Hall and filed an illegal building permit for a 27 unit condominium, on my land and CLAIMED to be the owner of my land. This land has been in my family since 1531, we are Native Americans of the Kickapoo tribe and there are more than 500 graves, most dating from the 1500s to 1600s on my land. 

This land has been in my family well over 500 years, and I inherited it from my grandmother Helen Ricker Allen in 1983.

The FBI believes, ALL of the slander/rumours that falsely accuse me of being transgender were ALSO started by this woman who murdered my son, in a further attempt to drive me from my land via working locals of Old Orchard Beach into a trans-hating frenzy.

If you are a real estate agent and ANY ONE contacts you interested in buying 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, PLEASE report that "client" IMMEDIATLY to FBI Agent Andy Drewer, head of my son's murder investigation, and head of the investigation into the 200+ acts of vandalism and hate crimes which have occurred at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine between 2001 to 2025.

If you have ANY information about ANY of the incidents, attacks, vandalisms, and hate crimes that took place between 2001 and 2025, on 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, please give that information to FBI agent Andy Drewer as well.

My land is not for sale and ANY ONE offering to buy it is likely connected to this woman who murdered my son.

ANYONE interested in buying my land has a HIGH PROBABILITY of being hired BY MY SON'S MURDERER, and you MUST send their information to the FBI.

If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

She shows up at my yard (both in Old Orchard and in Biddeford), at my college classes, at my workplace... always violent and smashing things, always yelling "transvestite freak" and similar hate slurs about transgender people (she seems to believe I am transgender even though I am I cis woman, and her hatred of transgender people seems to be her primary motive.).

At one point the man who was with her called her "Vallerie". But she herself talked of herself (in a bizarre, not how normal people talk "3rd person") Claire. She kept saying things like "I'm Claire, bitch!" and "I'm Claire you fucking transvestite freak!"

She really, really, really, really was going overboard in emphasizing that her name was Claire - to the point that I am led to believe that her name is NOT Claire, and that she was in fact pretending to be someone else, who's name was Claire.

The fact that the man with her (who was later discovered to be a Biddeford police officer - he was identified in February 2025 when he was killed in a car accident in New Hampshire.) called her "Vallerie" and not "Claire" when he talked to her, indicates, that her name is more likely to be Valerie, then Claire.

But I know no one named either Vallerie or Claire, and outside of these events where she shows up and attacks, I've never seen this woman before and have no clue who she is.

She has attacked more then a dozen times, IN ADDITION to the golf club attack when she murdered my son and crippled me.

She frequently dies her hair and wears wigs. And has looked quite different in the over TWELVE YEARS of her stalking and harassment

I have 3 broken vertebrae, 3 ruptured discs, a broken sariliac, hip dysplasia (broken hip and broken pelvic bone, with hip bone pushed back into pelvic bone and fused together), in addition to rheumatism in both hips, both knees, and both wrists, as well as MS.

Rheumatism I've had since I was 8.

MS I've had since I was 16.

All the rest was done by the crazy blonde woman with the golf club, November 14, 2013, at Southern Maine Community College. I was also 8 months pregnant and she murdered my son as well. I was paralyzed for 18 months and had to relearn to walk. Her hair was wild extreme unnatural rave style 2 to 3 inch wide platinum blond and dark blonde-brown stripes.

I found a pin that shows a similar hairstyle:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/tonos-de-cabello-rubio--322148179608879161/

In May 2015 I returned to work, walking minimally with a cane.

On June 24, 2016, the same mystery blond woman with her hair now dyed rusted reddish blond, woman, this time driving a late 1990s vintage gold Volvo station wagon, drove up beside my car, while I was putting groceries in my car at Scarborough Walmart, jumped out, grabbed an empty shopping cart from the shopping cart corral, and attacked again, same as she did with golf club three years earlier. This attack is the one which caused worse damage, and I have still not yet recovered from now in 2025.

In the 2016 attack, her hair was dyed an unnatural burgundy red, with slight grey roots growing out, the same unnatrually straitened pageboy style, and she was wearing a burgundy sweater that time.

In the 2016 attack, her hair was dyed an unnatural burgundy red, with slight grey roots growing out, the same unnatrually straitened pageboy style, and she was wearing a burgundy sweater that time.

She most often looks like this, with the red hair... and it was what she looked like on the December 24, 2016 Christmas Eve attack at my dad's apartment building. And THIS attack we have on camera, and so we have actual video footage of her... including, we have audio files of her yelling and chanting "transvestite freak!" while shooting a gun, during the Christmas Eve attack at 27 High Street, Biddeford, Maine.

Her hair has been a different colour each time she has shown up. In 2021 it was a neon dayglow purple, but still the same pageboy. The 2021 attack she was wearing a black poly satin dress with neon lime green trim

Her hair has been a different colour each time she has shown up. In 2021 it was a neon dayglow purple, but still the same pageboy. The 2021 attack she was wearing a black poly satin dress with neon lime green trim

When she showed up at PortCon 2023 and the Round 1 at the Maine Mall the same day, she was again wearing the black dressed, but this time her hair was died black, but she was wearing a neon dayglow lime green "clown wig".

Her face is covered in deep "smokers wrinkles" and her skin is very, very abnormally dry and flakey.

She had a somewhat large nose, (kind of more like a man's nose then a woman's nose) and very thin lips (almost none existant, again, more like a man's lips, then a womans)... she is a LOT bigger then me... a LOT - I am 5'6" and she's maybe 5'11" to 6'2"... she's like really, really, really big.

When she showed up at PortCon 2023 and the Round 1 at the Maine Mall the same day, she was again wearing the black dressed, but this time her hair was died black, but she was wearing a neon dayglow lime green "clown wig".

at one point at the Round One in the Maine Mall attack, she pulled off the green clown wig while she was yelling and her hair was a black-black super fake dyed black pageboy.

The 2016 attack is the one that did the most damage and. That is why I have the cane, walker, rollator, and wheelchair. And which one I use is determined by how much pain I am in at the time I try to stand and move.

She is the one the FBI is looking for. He said he thinks Bruce’s family knows who she is. He said they become alarmigly, agitated, evasive, and violently hostile whenever questioned about her.

If you have any information about my son’s murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

• Everything we are allowed to publicly release about The FBI Investigation Can Be Found Here

She is the same woman who severed my spine with the same golf club used to murder my baby. She had distinctive two-inch wide stripes in her hair all the way around her head, platinum blond and dark reddish brown, in a pageboy haircut.

If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer,please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

I have 3 broken vertebrae, 3 ruptured discs, a broken sariliac, hip dysplasia (broken hip and broken pelvic bone, with hip bone pushed back into pelvic bone and fused together), in addition to rheumatism in both hips, both knees, and both wrists, as well as MS.

Rheumatism I've had since I was 8.

MS I've had since I was 16.

All the rest was done by the crazy blonde woman with the golf club, November 14, 2013, at Southern Maine Community College. I was also 8 months pregnant and she murdered my son as well. I was paralyzed for 18 months and had to relearn to walk. Her hair was wild extreme unnatural rave style 2 to 3 inch wide platinum blond and dark blonde-brown stripes.

In May 2015 I returned to work, walking minimally with a cane.

On June 24, 2016, the same mystery blond woman with her hair now dyed rusted reddish blond, woman, this time driving a late 1990s vintage gold Volvo station wagon, drove up beside my car, while I was putting groceries in my car at Scarborough Walmart, jumped out, grabbed an empty shopping cart from the shopping cart corral, and attacked again, same as she did with golf club three years earlier. This attack is the one which caused worse damage, and I have still not yet recovered from now in 2025.

That is why I have the cane, walker, rollator, and wheelchair. And which one I use is determined by how much pain I am in at the time I try to stand and move.

She is the one the FBI is looking for. He said he thinks Bruce’s family knows who she is. He said they become alarmingly, agitated, evasive, and violently hostile whenever questioned about her.

If you have any information about my son’s murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

• Everything we are allowed to publicly release about The FBI Investigation Can Be Found Here

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