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Welcome to the New
Space Dock 13!
Helping Authors Write Weird, Bizarre, Absurd, Psychedelic Horror-Fantasy Since 1996!
(We've Moved & Changed URLs; Space Dock 13 is now EelKat.com)
(We are also novel-writing-tips.com, a-pink-unicorn.com, & of course are still SpaceDock13.com)
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Want To Meet EelKat and
The Dazzling Razzberry (Autism Awareness Car)
in Person?
This Year's CosPlay: Avallac'h
I'm livestreaming making this costume. If you want to see it being made, check out my Avallac'h Costume Making Vlogs on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/user/EelKat
See You There!
Who is Avallac'h?
This is Avallac'h
(Note, this character comes from an "adult entertainment" video game Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, that features drug use, drinking, nudity, grizzly-gory violence, rape, physical and sexual abuse of women, and a lot of on screen sex. You must be 18 or older to buy the game. Assume all videos and pages featuring Avallac'h are NSFW. Avallac'h is an evil psionic Elf sorcerer. This guy's excessively violent, a major pervert, a drug addict, kidnapper, murderer, rapist, a sadistic abusive womanizer, and a viciously violent radical religion crazed extremist. You've been warned.)
FAQs:
Yes, you can take pictures.
You don't have to ask to take pictures of the car,
but please ask first before taking pictures of me.
Thank you!
IMPORTANT NOTE:
PortCon is the ONLY convention I will be at in 2018!
I will be at several small scale events at libraries, etc, throughout Maine, but PortCon is the ONLY convention.
I have been CosPlaying since 1987, 2018 is my 31st year as a CosPlayer. In that time I've done 200+ costumes and usually am seen at as many as 12 events each summer. I know, you usually expect to see me at lots of events throughout the year, however, I've been doing this for 31 years now, and both my age and my health are preventing me from being very active of late.
I have arthritis, hip dysplasia, Parkinson's Disease, Autism (Kanner's Syndrome), PTSD, have 3 ruptured discs in my spine, am blind in one eye and fast going blind in my other eye, am deaf in one ear and can not hear well in the other, and since being attacked by a stalker who left me paralyzed for 5 months and 18 months relearning to walk, I'm now on a cane. My health is not good of late and I am no longer able to make full season of event runs. While I have no plans to retire from CosPlaying, I will be doing far fewer events than you saw me doing in the past.
Since 2013, I've only CosPlayed disabled/crippled characters who use a cane or staff to walk, thus allowing me to incorporate my cane into the CosPlay. That is the case this year. The character Avallac'h is both elderly and crippled and that is why I picked him to CosPlay. The Avallac'h CosPlay includes a staff, which will be replacing my cane.
PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE STAFF!
It is NOT a prop!
This is an ACTUAL MEDICAL GRADE staff
that I have had custom made for this costume.
I know people like to touch my extremely elaborate, over the top CosPlays, but please be aware,
I am EXTREMELY CRIPPLED and RELY HEAVILY on the cane to be able to walk.
The staff you will see with this costume is real, and I CAN NOT walk without it.
(If you didn't know I am a senior citizen, I'm not sure why, but most people tend to think I'm some 20 to 30 years younger then I actually am, but, yes, I'm old enough to be your grandmother, in fact, you're grandmother is probably younger than me. I seem to be older then most of my fans' grans these days. I does get tiring, young kids in their 30s walking up to me and saying "Gee I wish I was young like you, I'd date you." You're in your 30s, that's means you're a child to me. I was YOUR age back in the 1970s - 40 years ago.)
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2018 April/May/June Update:
As you know, most of the year I publish 2 to 3 articles a day.
However, every year during convention season, I take a break from that to go full swing CosPlay.
From early April 2018 to late June 2018, article posting schedule will be sporadic, while CosPlay Season and Convention events are going full swing.
During this time period, you can expect most, possible all new articles to be focused on costume making, CosPlay, and the characters I'm CosPlaying.
UPDATE: It's now divided into 7 pages. The primary page "Meet Avallach" is now over 20,000 words long. At this rate, it'll cross 60,000 long before the costume is finished, and that's not including the other 5 pages. The primary page has now crossed 60,000 89,000 words and counting, the whole set of Avallac'h pages are now more than 200,000 words long, and more then 500 pictures of Avallac'h and his friends have now been uploaded on these pages, plus there are now 400+ hour-long videos f the costume making process as we record live, every second of this insanely elaborate, over the top CosPlay project.
As of May 19, just 29 days to PortCon we are embroidering his blue coat in a countdown against the clock to finish in time for the event, while we pray that The Dazzling Razzberry will be re-weilded back together and drivable in time for PortCon, after it's recent vandalism by Old Orchard Beach's ever growing Ku Klux Klan problem.
There will still be daily updates, but the BULK of the daily updates will be limited to the pages linked here:
- The Avallac'h CosPlay: Who is Avallac'h?
- Obsession: Meet Avallac'h
- [NSFW] Avallac'h & His Nude Women | Witcher 3 Game Screenshots
- Historical Accuracy vs Avallac'h (to go live later this summer)
- The Avallac'h CosPlay Costume Making Vlogs (will go live AFTER finishing the costume)
- How To Make The Avallac'h CosPlay (will go live AFTER PortCon)
- How Much Did It Cost? ($800+ will run to around $3,000) Budgeting The Avallac'h CosPlay (eing written as the costume is being made, will go live after completion of the costume)
- Why do children CosPlay rapists & rape victims? & WHY Avallac'h is a M18+ character.
- PortConMaine 2018
- On Being a Handicapped CosPlayer: A Look At Events of PortConMaine 2017 That Resulted In 3 Disabled CosPlayers Getting hurt at The Convention and How These Things Could Have Been Avoided
After PortCon Update:
PortCon 2018 is over... but the making of the Avallac'h CosPlay is not. It is not possible to make a costume as detailed as I'm making in fewer then 400 hours, and only 129 hours went into the simplified first run version you saw at PortCon'18. The complete version will not be seen until PortCon'19
If you want to see this costume in person and watch it's progression onward as I continue to expand it... I'll be wearing it at the monthly Maine Association of CosPlay Enthusiasts (M.A.C.E.) events, throughout 2018 and 2019, you are welcome to join us. The list of current events can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/293470827423558/events/ This list is updated monthly, so be sure to check back often to find all the dates, locations, and details of events.
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Site Map or Table of Contents: A List of Every Page on this site. This is going to be a really huge list. I am transferring all of my blog posts, Squidoo Lenses, and "free hosted" web sites to this site. A grand total of 7,000+ pages. A long slow process that will likely take a few years to do. In these early stages of the site this ToC is going to be a straight up list. As more pages get added however, this page will be converted into a series of pages forming an index sorted alphabetically by topic and titles. That's ways down the road yet. For now it's just a one page list.
#'s100 Words Instead of Said The 13 Step Method To Writing Everything you could ever want to know about NaNoWriMo and how to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days or less 15 Practical Tips How Long is 50,000 Words? Why Write 50,000 Words In 30 Days? 600 Pages: Epic Big Super Sized Novels and Why You Should Never Write One |
AABCs of Writing A glossary of writing terms EK style About About EelKat Wendy C Allen, her life, career, pets, cars, and this website. About EelKat Everything you could ever want to know about the author of The Twighlight Manor series About EelKat.com, What it is and Why it Exists About EelKat.com, What it is and Why it Exists Amphibious Aliens In 1978 I encounted the infamous Memegwasi of Saco, Maine. Identifying this creature became my life long obsession which inspired the Twighlight Manor Series Art Equipment Reviews of things I use to create my art Ask EelKat Ask EelKat any question about writing, publishing, or marketing your next book Attracting Readers (Customers) |
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BBecoming a Better Writer The Business Side Of Writing and Being an Author A look at the often overlooked business side of being an author Business Resources |
CCharacter Creation for Writers of short stories, novels, video games and rpgs The Cheesy Pink Flamingo My idea, plans, and goals for a mac&cheese food truck. The Church of The Holy Rhinestone Did you know EelKat is a minister and started her own church? Here it is. Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts Art by Maine author EelKat Wendy C Allen Copyrights and Other Things You Need To Know Create Something To Sell Creative Writing Prompts Finding ideas for what to write about and killing writer's block with EelKat |
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DDeath Dell Farm (OSRIC compatible RPG modules) Dungeon Crawls (OSRIC compatible RPG modules) |
EE-Publishing Easter Eggs and how to find rhem Editing Your Book Manuscript Tips for Editing Your Book or short story manuscript before sending it off to the publisher EelKat's Bake Shop My idea, plans, and goals for a Welsh/Scottish themed food truck. EelKat's Guide To NaNoWriMo Featuring The 13 Step Method To Writing Everything you could ever want to know about NaNoWriMo and how to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days or less English is not my first language, how can I get my book translated and published in America? Triumphs of Enthusiasm |
Index of
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FFriends Are Forever aka The Twighlight Manor Series Everything you ever wanted to know about EelKat's Twighlight Manor Series, but was a afraid to ask The Frosty Pink Flamingo My idea, plans, and goals for a French-Style ice cream food truck. |
G(EelKat's Guide To Writing) Genre Fiction Insights into writing for specific target audience, especially readers of romance, horror, and science fiction |
An Index of Genre Fiction Articles
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EelKat's Guide to Writing Genre Fiction
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For help in creating characters in genre fiction try:
EelKat's Guide to Character Creation
HThe Haunting of Death Dell Farm (Types Of) Horror: The Subgenres of Horror Fiction How Can I Possibly Write a Novel in 30 Days? How I Write: My answers to your questions about my writing How To Become A Writer, where to get started, what you should know about a career in the publishing industry How To Write Children's Fiction How To Write Christian Fiction How To Write Historical Fiction |
IYou Stole My Idea - I was going to write a book, but you already wrote it 10 years ago! Indie Press: Starting Your Own Publishing House An Iron Will It Came From Behind the Fridge and Other Tales of Rancid Yak Butter |
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JJuggling life, the universe, and everything while being a writer too |
KKeep it Professional |
LShould you be drinking Lemon Water? Listen And Evolve Love-Lust-Madness |
MManuscript Reading Services or Will You Read My Book and Tell Me What You Think? Some thoughts on Manuscript Reading Service requests which steadily fill my inbox. Market Analysis Marketing Your Book EelKat's guide to marketing your book both online and offline What jobs did Medieval servants have? Mental Illnesses in fiction: What inspired you to use a mentally ill person as your main character? My Amazon Sales (a series of pages) My Art Equipment Reviews of things I use to create my art |
More Marketing Tips For Authors
<<< Back to Marketing Dos and Don'ts
An Index of
"Writing About Mental Illness in Fiction" Articles
What inspired you to use a mentally ill person as your main character?
How do you pick what mental illness to write about?
Should I write incest in my stories?
Creating Characters With Mental Health Issues:
- Agoraphobia
- Autism
- Depression
- PTSD
- Schizophrenia
- Stockholm's Syndrome
N(EelKat's Guide To) NaNoWriMo Featuring The 13 Step Method To Writing Everything you could ever want to know about NaNoWriMo and how to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days or less Novel? Novella? Short Story? How Do I Know What Am I Writing? |
OThe Old Orchard Beach Review Committee We are a group of people who live a double life as freelance undercover secret shoppers, restaurant, hotel, and park critics. On Being Homeless Hurricane Katrine came to Old Orchard Beach, Maine flattened my house and left me homeless - for 7 years - find out what happened next... On Living With Autism I am an adult with Autism. I was removed from school at 8 years old and told I would never amount to anything. 40 years later I am an author, editor, and owner of a publishing house. Here is my story OSRIC compatible RPG modules |
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UPDATE: November 2015: The page you are on now, was written in 2007 and updated every November until 2014 - It was last updated October 31, 2014 and there are no future updates planned for it, as after 10 years of doing it, I have retired from "traditional" NaNoWriMo and am now doing a different writing goal each November. For the current NaNoWriMo 2015 update see THIS PAGE (which includes the first public release of my Dares Generator and information on how I use it to reach 50,000 words in 3 days instead of 30 days, along with info on how I reached 537,000 words in 2013 and thus changed my writing goals for NaNoWriMo.) UPDATE: October 31, 2014 - Due to a major hacking of my online accounts, and the theft and plagiarism of some 1,371 of my how-to articles for writers, I am now removing from public access MOST of my How To Guides for writers. They will return at a future date, but henceforth they will not be available for free. I'm tired of shit-head thieves stealing my work and passing it off as theirs. I'm sorry, to those of you who were not creeps and trolls, I know it's not fair to you, but, the hacking was done by a local person did a lot more damage than you know - the vandalism to my house and cars and the murders of my pets and death threats to my family, are not something I take lightly. Until we can get to the bottom of this and get this jackass stalker out of my life, I am simply not able to leave my articles online, due to the court case that is now brewing over this. I am also leaving NaNoWriMo, because the local NaNoWriMo ML Kendra Silvermander is the cousin of the man doing the harassment, stalking, vandalism (which included blowing up my house with a grease fryer bomb) and has been not only stealing my how to guides and posting them on the NaNoWriMo forums as her own, but also shows up at local restaurants to threaten me and my family while we are trying to eat. I am utterly disgusted that NaNoWriMo allows a filthy, thieving, vandalizing, scum bag like this to continue to year after year, inciting anti-EelKat riot threads on the NaNoWriMo forum, while continuing to allow her to steal my articles off my web site and post them to NaNoWriMo's website as hers. This article you are reading now, is one of the few, I have not taken down, it is however drastically shorted. My mega long 20,000 word how to articles are ALL removed now, with only and the ones that remain are stripped of most of the info, with only the barest minimum required to answer the reader question - in many cases the articles are 90% shorter then when they originally appeared, most now under 2,000 words instead of their 20,000 word originals. Complete Index of
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PPhookas Everything you could ever want to know about phookas The Pidgie Fund Maine's first no-kill animal shelter and rescue. Saving the world one animal at a time since 1983 The Power Of Passion The Price of Success
Publishing Methods A look at various Publishing Methods you can use for your book. |
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SSelf Editing Your Book Manuscript Tips for Self Editing Your Book or short story manuscript before sending it off to the publisher Self-Publishing and what you need to know about it Serial Pulp Fiction Defined Splat Books (OSRIC compatible RPG modules) You Stole My Idea - I was going to write a book, but you already wrote it 10 years ago! The Price of Success Supply And Demand |
I Love Roderic!
A List of Every Page on this Site
Where I Talk More About Roderic
It is no secret that Sir Roderic Lincandonia Swanzen, owner of The Twighlight Manor, is my favorite character, and you don't have to read very many blog posts, articles, site pages, etc to realize, I talk about him A LOT. While you see him mentioned in passing on just about every page on this site, there are some pages where I go into vast detail about his life. I am going to make a list of them all and tack it to the end of each of those pages, to make it easier for readers to find them all. And here they are:
Developing Character Backgrounds
Using a Character with a Mental Illness
NaNoWriMo: How Do You Pick Which Story to Write?
Enhance Your Creativity To Become a Better Writer
Index of
"Self-Publishing" Articles
TTales From Laughing Gnome Hollow
Toilets In Fiction:
How come fictional characters are never be allowed to use the bathroom?
Too Young To Write It? Are you too young to write the story that's been floating around inside your head? English is not my first language, how can I get my book translated and published in America? TSoD: The Traveling Shovel of Death Triumphs of Enthusiasm Twighlight Manor Press The publisher of horror, romance, and science fiction short story anthologies, with all stories based on the theme of being set in Old Orchard Beach, Maine The Twighlight Manor Series Everything you ever wanted to know about EelKat's Twighlight Manor Series, but was a afraid to ask |
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What is Traditional Publishing?
What are the Advantages of Traditional Publishing?
What are the Disadvantages of Traditional Publishing?
How can I become a Traditionally Published writer?
How can I get my book Traditionally Published?
Where should I submit my manuscript?
How do I format my manuscript for submission to a Traditional Publishing House?
Can I make a living as a Traditionally Published writer? Can I make a living from royalties?
Should I copyright my book? If so, how?
How can I tell if a contest or publishing offer is a scam?
Where can I find a list of book publishing scams?
May I send my book to you for evaluation?
How can I get feedback on my manuscript from a Traditional Publisher?
I am a Traditionally Published writer facing a crisis where can I go to find help?
Is rejection a bad sign?
Do I need an agent?
How much does it cost to publish with Traditional Publishing?
Read More Twighlight Not Twilight:
VVanity Press and what you need to know about it |
WWhat's on My Bookshelf? Ever wonder what books an author reads? I own more than 12,000 books. Here are reviews of some of my faves. Why Write 50,000 Words In 30 Days? World Building for Writers The ultimate guide to building fantasy world for short stories, novels, video games or rpgs. Write A Book In 30 Days |
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Even More Where Do You Get Your Ideas
You Stole My Idea - I was going to write a book, but you already wrote it 10 years ago!
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The Pearl Necklace LiveThe Pearl Necklace Live
SHIVER! LiveSHIVER! Live
Death Dell Farm LiveDeath Dell Farm Live
Copper Cockeral Cards & GiftsArt by Maine author EelKat Wendy C Allen
- EelKat's Guide To NaNoWriMo
- How long does it take to hit 1667 words? and 50k in one day - is it possible?
- Write Now - Edit Later
- Write it YOUR Way!
- What Is Word Padding?
- Word Padding & Why You Should Never Do It!
- More ways to write fast without word padding . . .
- After NaNoWriMo - Writing to Publish
- What I Did In 2006 - Reaching 50,000 using The 13 Step Method to Writing
- The Secret to Reaching Word Count Goals Without Using Word Padding - What I Did During National Novel Writing Month 2007
- NaNoWriMo 2008: 50k in 3 Days!
- Writing Tip: Have Fun!
- But, I want to finish a book I already started . . .
- Does writing a bunch of short stories count for National Novel Writing Month?
- Write What YOU Want To Write!
- Accepting Your Writing Style
- Writing Advice Doesn't Always Work
- What do You Look For in a Book?
- Creating Character Profiles
- Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
- What Genre is My Vampire Story?
- What Genre is My Mermaid Story?
- Does What You Read Effect What You Decide To Write? or What's on My Bookshelf . . .
- WHERE Should I write? Where do you feel you write more?
- Create Your Own Writer's Retreat
- I Want to Keep Writing December and Beyond: JaNoWriMo, FebNoWriMo, SeptNoWriMo, OctNoWriMo . . . ???
- Script Frenzy
- GothNoWriMo
- Narration for Writers
- ABCs of Writing
- How to Become a Writer
- Are You a Renegade Writer?
- Creating a Fantasy World
- After NaNoWriMo: Editing your draft into a manuscript
- After National Novel Writing Month: Marketing Your Book
- After NaNoWriMo: Home Office, Town Zoning, and IRS Oh My! The Business Side of Being an Author
- My NaNoWriMo Journey: The answer the the oft asked question "So what exactly did you write during National Novel Writing Month?"
The Cheesy Pink Flamingo My idea, plans, and goals for a mac&cheese food truck.
The Church of The Holy Rhinestone Did you know EelKat is a minister and started her own church? Here it is.
Laughing Gnome Hollow Laughing Gnome Hollow home to The Goldeneagle and Etiole's Swamp, Maine's paranormal hot spot
The Old Orchard Beach Review Committee We are a group of people who live a double life as freelance undercover secret shoppers, restaurant, hotel, and park critics.
Restaurant Reviews Restaurant Reviews
Amphibious Aliens In 1978 I encounter the infamous Memegwasi of Saco, Maine. Identifying this creature became my life long obsession which inspired the Twighlight Manor Series
Phookas Everything you could ever want to know about phookas
The Sea Witch Of Old Orchard Beach Information about The Sea Witch Of Old Orchard Beach
Hoodoo, Rootwork, Etc Everything you could ever want to know about hoodoo, voodoo, and rootwork as told by The Sea Witch of Old Orchard Beach
Table of Contents A List of Every Page on this site
EK's Star Log EK's Star Log - the EelKat.com edition
EK's Star Log EK's Star Log - the EelKat.com edition
EelKat's ABCs of Writing A glossary of writing terms EK style
How To Become A Writer How To Become A Writer, where to get started, what you should know about a career in the publishing industry
EelKat's Guide To Writing Genre FictionInsights into writing for specific traget audiance, especially readers of romance, horror, and science fiction
Guide to Character Creation for WritersGuide to Character Creation for Writers of short stories, novels, video games and rpgs
World Building for WritersThe ultimate guide to building fantasy world for short stories, novels, video games or rpgs.
EelKat's Guide To NaNoWriMo Featuring The 13 Step Method To WritingEverything you could ever want to know about how to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days or less
Self Editing Your Book ManuscriptTips for Self Editing Your Book or short story manuscript before sending it off to the publisher
Publishing MethodsHow to get your book published with traditional publishers or self publish it yourself.
Marketing Your BookEelKat's guide to marketing your book both online and offline