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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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Choosing Story Topics When Writing Short Stories

(This is a reprint of a Squidoo article)

Choosing Story Topics When Writing Short Stories

Choosing a Topic to Write About: Are You Enthusiastic About the Idea?

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Choosing a Topic to Write About: Are You Enthusiastic About the Idea?

Writers are sentimental about their writing, but are they enthusiastic about it? You have found a topic to write about, but you don't know if it's one you really want to write about. How can you tell if you should use it as your next topic? Just ask yourself this: Am I sentimental or enthusiastic about the idea? Does it matter?

Love Your Topic

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Choosing a Topic to Write About: Are You Enthusiastic About the Idea?

Writers are sentimental about their writing, but are they enthusiastic about it? You have found a topic to write about, but you don't know if it's one you really want to write about. How can you tell if you should use it as your next topic? Just ask yourself this: Am I sentimental or enthusiastic about the idea? Does it matter?

Do not mistake sentiment for enthusiasm. They are not the same things. Don't believe me? Let's ask the dictionary:

Sentiment: noun

1.) Tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion

2.) A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

Enthusiasm:

noun

1.) A feeling of excitement

2.) Overflowing with enthusiasm

3.) A lively interest

A tender romantic emotion that evokes nostalgia vs. a lively interest filled with excitement. So how does this affect you the writer? Think of it this way: You may have sentiment for an old faded Valentine, but do you have enough enthusiasm about it to write a story about the Valentine and how it came to mean so much to you? It holds a warm place in your heart, and you will never throw it away, but do you burn with the feverish desire to tell the world about it?

Now think about your readers. Your reader has no sentimental attachment to your Valentine, if they saw it, they'd probably toss it in the trash, for it means nothing to them at all. Would they read about it? Well that depends on how you write the story, doesn't it? If you spend your times mooning over the Valentine and its sentimentalism, most likely your reader well toss the story aside calling it a load of sentimental tripe.

Sentimental tripe. Yep, that's what kills many a story. People don't want to read sentimental tripe that moons and simpers over days gone by and the writer's obsession with their own past. The reader wants to know the hows and whys behind the Valentine. They want the facts, every juicy detail. The Valentine in and of itself is not enough to keep the reader reading, there has to be something more. Think of the Valentine as the skeleton, the bones of the story upon which you must build up the muscle and flesh to give it substance. Write a story about the sentiment of the Valentine and bore your readers to tears. How do you correct that? With enthusiasm. Question is, do you have it?

Your reader wants to know how the Valentine became sentimental. They want to know how the Valentine came into the possession of your character. They want to read about the chain of events that caused it to become a sentimental item. Write a story about the Valentine and how it came to be important TO YOUR MAIN CHARACTER. Instead of sentimental mooning you have vibrant enthusiasm. You have a character, not yet turned sentimental. Now the reader has a reason to want to read about the Valentine. They can see a character that has feelings and emotions just like them. They can become the character and feel what the character feels when he feels it.

But are you truly enthusiastic about your idea? Do you burn with the desire to write it? Do you feel that you cannot exist until you have spread the word throughout the entire world? Does a fiery passion to tell everyone everywhere about your story, drive you forward? That is enthusiasm, and that is what you need to tell a great story. Leave the sentiment behind, and let your story burn with passion, let that passion fill your soul; pour your soul into the story.

This Article Copyright 2006 Wendy C. Allen

2018 Update:

Choosing Story Topics When Writing Short Stories

Is there any reason why to not write all three of them? If each is only 2 to 4 pages you could do 1 a day or 1 every other day, and have all 3 finished in a week, without any need to choose one over the other.

Then after you've finished writing them, you can decide which one you think is written the best to turn in. Are you writing this for a school assignment or a writing contest or something? I assumed that because the way you said...

>>So I need to write a short story (2-4. Pages)

...which indicated to me that this was an assignment.

So, a few questions (you don't have to answer them here, just ask yourself these when thinking about story ideas to help you figure out what you want to write.)...

• What genre do you want to write? A few to choose from: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Romance, Adventure, Mystery, Drama, Absurdism, Historical, Time Travel, Alternate History, Ghost Story, Western, Literary, Slice of Life, Non-Fiction...

• Which style: Character driven? Plot driven? Setting driven?

• Will you have a theme/moral/message? (Animal Rights, Suicide Prevention, Say No To Drugs, etc)

• What point of view (POV) will you use? 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person, or 4th person/broken wall?

How you answer these questions will help you to determine what you want to write about.

Personally, I prefer to write character driven, 3rd person, Slice of Life Dark Space Fantasy, with a theme of suicide. You see that as being the common thread of all my stories.

Now, I write a long running series (2,000 short stories and 130 novels published since 1978) that is set in a world where time travel, portals, Elves, and wizards exist. I have a database of 75 characters, any one of which I use as a main character depending on the story, though I have 3 primary characters and 1 main character who are my go-to characters for most stories.

So, this means that I already have my characters pre-made, meaning I start with a character first, then give them a story to be in.

The primary main character (SEEN HERE) is a suicidally depressed Elf wizard on the run and wanted for murder. Generally the story will be 2,000 to 7,000 words long, and will be a single scene, from a single day in his life, told from his POV in 3rd person. It'll be lice of Life format, meaning the entire story likely takes place in the space of a single 15 to 20 minute space of time in in life, looking only at the one very specific moment of his life.

So, that's how I do short story writing, and with that in mind, looking at your story idea choices, I would pick 2:

>>A story to raise awareness to bullying or mental illness.

So, what I would do with it is, and in fact, what I HAVE done already, is ...

In one story called "The Hanging Tree"

What happens is this:

Quaraun comes from a culture that outlaws same sex couples and is hiding that fact that he has a male lover. When he is accused of bedding with other males, he does not deny it and openly admits to having sex with other men, not realizing that this will incit his accusers into an angry mob, that next strips him naked, drags him to the center of town and publically tortures him, with most of the village coming forward to join in. The infamous highly detail, incredibly grizzly scene that got the series banned off FanFiction.net followed, as one Elf, pulled out a knife and forces it up into Quaraun's penis, then rippe the knife in a backward motion, slicing Quaraun's penis completely in half, leaving behind a scar known as "a sub penal incision". Following this Elf's example, other village slash Quaraun, belly, thighs, and groin with knives, leaving him horribly scarred for life. When they finished torturing him, Quaraun is left for dead, his bloody remains used as bait to capture The Elf Eater of Pepper Valley. Unknown to the Elves however is the fact that it was the Elf Eater himself who is Quaraun's lover, and upon discovering what the Elves did to Quaraun, the Elf Eater slaughtered the Moon Elves, then takes Quaraun and spends the next several months nursing the dying Elf back to health. Quaraun eventually recovered, but he is left with a crippled leg, severe PTSD, rampant phobia that cripple his ability to function in society, and the horrific scars that he often bemoans.

This entire story is just under 3,000 words long. And it shows a horrify look at bigotry, bullying, and herd mentality of a mob joining a bully and nearly killing a gay man.

This is one of the very early stories in the series, which happens wen he is very young. This story is the foundation base point that the other stories reference back to.

In dozens of stories written after this, readers see Quaraun's life as it goes into a downward spiral of depression and mental illness, as he turns first to drugs, then to drinking, then to cutting, and eventually to multiple suicide attempts.

In There Is No Mournful Lamb Inn you see a quick 5 minute space of time, when Quaraun walks up, covered in blood, weak, dizzy, and unable to remember where he is or what happened. His best friend fussing over him, bandaging Quaraun's sliced wrists and telling Quaraun, that he tried to kill himself again, but this time, he killed one of their friends when they tried to stop him. A very short story, barely 1,000 words long, it gives the reader a horrific look into how badly bullying has damaged Quaraun's mind.

In another story called Map of The Town you see the wizard, dozing of while listening to a soldier describing a series of murders that happened in town. The reader never finds out about the murders because Quaraun falls asleep and in the next line he's being jolted awake by the soldier yelling at him. Quaraun is holding a 3 year old boy, who had just witnessed his mother murdered earlier that day, and the soldiers yelling makes the child start crying. When Quaraun asked the soldier to stop scaring the boy, the soldier starts yelling racist bigotry hate for the boy's race. Quaraun responds by punching the soldier and then finally letting his true feelings about the bigotry and racism going on. This story spans just under 2,000 words.

In Alone you see Quaraun's lover, having a mental breakdown, after Quaraun goes missing. A super short story only 700 words long, the reader sees a character who is normally "the strong one" fast falling into mental breakdown now that he is alone.

In In Black Tower you see Quaraun missing, and one of his friends wounded, and Quaraun's lover taking care of their injured friend. This quick story takes place in a lighthouse and tells the reader, something is horribly wrong, but never fully let's them know.

Thus you can see how in my previous writings, I have taken this concept:

>>A story to raise awareness to bullying or mental illness.

And written it in multiple ways, with multiple characters, in multiple settings.... each story 2 to 7 pages long, each focusing on one character per story, but each character being connected to other characters of other stories in the series.

So, that's what I would do, and what I have done. I pick a character and focus on a very tiny space of time, often a the story spans under 10 minutes of the character's life. And rather then trying to tell the "big picture" it just focuses on one character's perspective of the current situation they find themselves in.

Hopefully this helps you to decide what to write with your own story.

Good luck with it!

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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