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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!

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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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 TRIGGERED! I'm a Straight Cis Woman, but I am deemed Too Gay For Old Orchard Beach, Are you too gay for the bigoted, minority harassing, white power, gay hating psychos of The Old Orchard Beach Town Hall Too? 

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

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

Water is a part of your world's landscape, but it deserves special consideration on it's own, because water is very important to all forms of life. Where there is water there is life. Without water there can be no life.

A realm without water, has to explain how it can sustain life in either a very scientific or extremely magic can to anything manner, otherwise no reader is going to believe that life can exist in a realm with zero water.

Did you ever look at a population density map? The areas in green means there is little or no population there, while the areas in red mean that place is extremely compacted and over populated. Orange and yellow areas cover the spot between the red and green.

Looking at one of these maps you will quickly notice a pattern: dessert, Savannah, and tundra areas have little to no population, while lakes, rivers, and coastlines all have red spikes.

The answer to this is simple: where there is little water, there are fewer people. Where there is plenty of water, there are lots and lots of people.

People gather at water.

People are attracted to water.

People need water to survive.

Make sure when creating your fantasy world you take this fact into consideration, because real or fictional, people are always going to settle down in a place where they have access to a good water supply.

Since the 1940s, meat has moved front and centre into the primary staple of most modern diets, and because of this, few authors consider the fact that BEFORE the 1940s, meat was scarce, rare, and difficult to come by. Large scale farms producing meat, would not be invented until the 1950s. Before then, if a farmer had livestock, it was not for meat production: cows and goats were for milk, chickens for eggs, horses and ox for plowing and transportation, and pigs... pigs were an evil taboo that no Christian, Jew, or Muslim would dream of touching, considering the Bible, Torah, and Koran all commanded not to even look at, let alone touch a pig, and eating a pig was a one way ticket to hell on many levels... all three scriptures put eating pig as a worse sin than murder - a murderer can repent, eating ig, was absolute blasphemy. Few modern Christina even know what the Bible says and even those that do rarey obey it, so today only Jews and Muslim avoid pig, thus modern authors forget that from Bible times until the 1940s Christians also did not eat pig.

In the 1300s, chickens were so hard to come by that merchants sold them for 130 silver coins - the 2017 equivalent of $1,000. Even kings could rarely afford to buy a chicken. It was because of the exorbitant price of chicken, that mythical tales of golden eggs surfaced.

What does any of this have to do with water?

Fish.

In Bible times, in Medieval times, and all other times right up to the 1940s... fish was the primary staple food of most populations. And this was a major factor in WHY such huge populations/cities rose up around so many rivers, lakes, and bays.

For most of the world, rice was and still is, the most important staple of diet, and rice grows under water. Rice can only be grown in flooded fields, river deltas, and estuaries.

Papyrus (paper) until recent years was made out of tall swamp grassses including papyraus, pammus, cattails, and reeds. Wood did not become a popular paper making material until the 1700s when mils began to surface more often. These plants only grown in water.

Wheat, corn, rye, and oats are all primary food staples, all require irrigation to grow, and a large, fast river to power the mill wheel to turn the grind stone to produce the flour.

Without water, humans have no fish, no grain, no paper, and no flour; and while people can survive without paper, for centuries it was not possible for humanity to survive without fish and bread, the two food the formed the near entirety of the Human diet for almost 4,000 years.

Perhaps all of this is a history lesson you did not expect to find here, but remember, the goal of all of this is to create a believable fantasy world for your characters to live in.

All too often I fins myself reading novels where the author took no consideration for how the land affects the people.

Even people who live in a forest, live near a creek or mountain stream, people in deserts seek out oasis to live on. Always near water. Always.

And yet so rarely does an author locate their characters near water, making the story incredibly difficult to get into, because of the extreme unbelievability of where the characters live in relation to their world..

Water brings life, and it takes it. Water is beautiful and deadly.

Writing about water can evoke peace or dread. The quiet ripple of the ocean can lull you to sleep, while it's crash waves can shatter your skull on the rocks.

Water is one of the few things that can so deeply effect so many things and evoke such a wide variety of emotions.

What do you want to become? 
What did you do today to step closer to that goal?
Whatever you do, be your best at it!
And remember to have yourself a great and wonderfully glorious day!

~EK
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By EelKat Wendy C Allen

If 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.

If 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.

If you ever made fun of or had any part in the backhoe driving over my house, you shall lose your house.

If you ever made fun of or had any part in my car being cut in half, you shall lose your car.

If 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.

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:

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

• Question Everything Before Putting It In Your World 

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:

Books I Use When Creating Fantasy Worlds: