This week we should be celebrating the 9th birthday of my son.
Instead we are celebrating the 9th anniversary since his murder.
If you have any information, please call FBI Portland Office @ 207-774-9322
ask for Agent Andy Drewer.
November 14, 2013 10PM @ Southern Maine Community College Art Studio Bug-Light Parking Lot: 3 strangers armed with golf clubs, attacked me from behind while I was loading bags into the backseat of my car. They were a blond woman 60s-ish whom the others called "Claire", a natural red-haired woman also 60sish who called herself "Kendra", and a bald man, football player-body-type-build in his 30sish. I was 8 months pregnant. They murdered my baby, ruptured 3 discs in my spine, shattered 3 vertebra, broke my pelvis, hips, and knees. I was paralyzed for 5 months and was 18 months relearning to walk. The nerve damage has left me with limited use of my hands, legs, bladder, and intestines.
On top of that, they have also taken to harassing the baby's father, a disfigured, homeless, WW2 veteran, whom they call "Etoile". They spread hateful rumours about him claiming he is a cryptid, a demon, or most often what they term "an amphibious alien". He lives in pine branch lean-toos he builds in Old Orchard Beach and Ocean Park, and they have been hunting the locations of them, tearing them down, and smashing up his belongings.
April 10, 2015 1PM at 146 Portland Ave Old Orchard Beach Maine a gang of estimated 74 people, some of them wearing ku klux klan robes, invaded my farm, used a Blow Brothers sewage truck to pump 500+gallons of sewage into my motorhome flooding it to over the kitchen counters deep, ripped out all the cabinets and built in furniture, while 14 men armed with guns, held my family down on the ice and snow, with guns to our heads, and used cinder block bricks and a metal pole with metal wire loops to beat and behead 10 of my 12 foster children (the youngest age 4, the oldest age 16). May 15, 2015 they returned and nailed their heads to my front door. The 3 people of the November 14, 2013 attack were among the group.
September 12, 2015, 9AM a dozen+ of these same people arrived again in my driveway at 146, this time chanting: "Too gay for the family friendly town of Old Orchard Beach. Kill of be killed. Remember Saco Shaw's, Transgender Murder Store, kill the transvestites before they kill us all", one white haired man in a dark green pick up truck was leading the herd, while waving a rifle over his head and shooting at me and my pink motorhome, he shot several holes through my neighbour's shed. The crowd was accusing me of being a male-to-female "transgender terrorist" (they thought I was Muslim because I wear Catholic veiling).
June 26, 2016, the same 2 women of the first 2 attacks, arrived at my Scarborough WalMart workplace, and in a near repeat of the first attack, again while I was leaned over the back seat of my car putting bags in, this time they attacked with a chopping cart, re-injuring my spine, hip, and pelvis that was not yet fully healed from the first attack. The blond "Claire" woman was screaming "That's EelKat, she tried to kill my husband!" while the redhead screamed "I'm Kendra Silvermander it's my turn the shine!" They sped away in a early2000s-vintage gold Volvo SUV station wagon. This attack left me permanently crippled, and bedridden from 2016 until May 2022.
November 21, 2021: They shot "Etiole" in Biddeford, while he was staying at the tent-shanty-village with about 50 other homeless people along the Saco River in Biddeford. They made the claim he was a "suicide demon" citing that he was driving locals to suicide by putting "evil eye curses" on them.
These people murdered my baby, attempted to murder the baby's father, drove a backhoe over our house, and left me crippled for the rest of my life in their attempt to murder me.
I do not know who these people are. I never saw them before these attacks, and I've not seen them outside of these attacks. The police and FBI believe I was not the intended target, and that they were likely after my mother because of posts she makes on FaceBook and got us mixed up. The Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford Police and the FBI are seeking information leading to their identity and arrest.
More Info @ eelkat.com
Long detailed info on the over 200 attacks they have done between June 2001 and May 2022, including photos of them driving a backhoe over our house on August 8, 2013 and the details of the malicious "amphibious alien" rumour they have been spreading about a local homeless disabled veteran @
https://www.eelkat.com/AmphibiousAliens.html
Images:
July 4th 2013: my car in front of my house.
August 8, 2013: me getting home from work to find a backhoe sitting on top of my house.
The FBI already found the people with the backhoe incident, and learned that the backhoe driver was paid $600 and given a fake demolition paper, the paper stating one of my relatives (the one who paid him the $600) owned my land. The backhoe driver was unaware that the man he was dealing with was not the owner. I have lived at 146 Portland Ave since 1975 and have owned the land since 1983, it has never been owned by anyone else, even though we have now learned that both my mother and my father and 3 of my uncles had been actively going around Old Orchard Beach claiming they owned my land.
This happened 3 months before my son was murdered and the police and FBI believe my son was murdered BECAUSE of this picture being posted on FaceBook, and my mother making inciting/inflammatory posts about it on HER FaceBook, where she falsely accused me of being a witch. The FBI and OOB police believe the golf club wielding woman of November 14, 2013, is somehow connected to the backhoe driving over my house incident.
Since the murder, 3 other different backhoes have invading my land to dig up my yard, looking for the grave of my son. There is a family cemetery on my land, the stones dating mostly in the 1500s and 1600s, with a few from the past hundred years, the most recent being my son in 2013. 146 Portland Ave has belonged to my family since 1530, and I inherited it in 1983 from my grandmother Helen Ricker Allen. The most recent backhoe attack happened September 19, 2020, when they illegally cut down several trees in my yard, and started construction of a road through my yard between my pink 1975 Dodge Sportsman motorhome and BackElder Brooke, again the backhoe digging up and destroying large portions of my farm, in their search for my murdered son's grave. They dug up 16 of the graves in this attack.
We have had to remove the grave markers from the family grave in order to stop these vandals and their illegally trespassing construction equipment from destroying the graves.
The FBI believes these construction crews are being hired by the golf club wielding women, and believe she is trying to destroy the grave of my son, due to a fear of his golf club smashed skull being used as court evidence against her.
The most recent attacks by these people occurred November 21, 2021 and March 27, 2022 when they attacked my painted Volvo while it was parked at my dad's apartment in Biddeford, both times the vandals also cut all the wires to electricity, internet, and cable off the apartment building, effecting all 9 families living there.
The Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford Police Departments as well as the Portland FBI are seeking any information regarding any and all of these attacks on my family, my home, my land, or my cars.
If you have any information, please call FBI Portland Office @ 207-774-9322
ask for Agent Andy Drewer.
I started out similar... for me it was not poetry, but rather short stories. Like you. people would stop by, read my stories, then leave. I didn't gain much following at first.
I started it in 1996.
Ten years later in 2006, I still struggled to get 100 views a month... In April 2007 something changed, and bb November 2007 I was getting 3,000 views a month.
Now 22 years later, in 2018, I average 14,000 to 25,000 views a month and have 300,000 subscribers.
What changed? I'll tell you...
So, I had a few subs/followers, but, it was only a few and it was pretty discouraging, to be writing stories and not a lot of people reading them.
I started out on freewebs, then moved the site to BlogSpot, then in 2003 imported it to WordPress where it stayed until 2013.
One day, I get an email from one of my readers. They explained they were looking to get started writing short stories, and at the time, there were no websites to tell people how to write short stories. This person was a fan of my work, liked my writing style and asked, if I could write a series of posts on how I got started, what my writing process was, etc.
I was, like, that's not a bad idea.
So April 2007, the first non-fiction article type posts were written. My traffic changed almost immediately. It picked up slowly at first, but within 6 months I had posted more hen 100 "how to write short stories" topic articles, and my traffic went from 100 views a month to 3,000 views per month.
In 2010 I crossed 6,000 posts and WordPress' servers struggled to keep my massive site online, down time was a problem, the site was offline more then online. In June 2013, a major server crash, wiped a massive 1,000+ posts from my blog and was barely able to stay online for 2 days in a row, as my traffic begane crippling WordPress servers...
In 2013, I moved to the Rolls Royce of web hosts, SBI (a business server capable of high speed hosting mega giant 100,000+ page websites) and changed the url to: https://www.eelkat.com and now today I post at minimum 2 posts daily and sometimes as many as 10 posts a day. And we are talking long posts - my articles average 2,000 words each, with many of them over 10,000 words and my longest one over 60,000 words.
In September 2013, with my site now stable, no longer crashing servers and busting bandwidth limits, thanks to SBI's host service, my traffic started snowballing, now getting 1,000+ hits PER DAY on my high traffic seasons of the year. And never getting fewer them 300 visites a day on my low traffic days.
And what started out as me posting FanFiction short stories online, has become my full time career.
I now have several topics:
Every day I write 2 or 3 or more new articles. AND I still publish 2 or 3 new short stories a week as well.
While my site now gets very steady, high traffic, the bulk of my traffic goes to the how-to-guide type non-fiction articles teaching newbie writers how to write, edit, format, create characters, build world, etc. Even today, very little traffic goes to the fiction works on my site. The fiction works, still continue to get fewer then 1,000 visits per month...
BUT....
I am now living off the full time income coming in from the 10,200+ non-fiction articles I now have on my site, which allows me to focus on writing more short stories even though they bring in very little traffic on their own.
If you go look at my blog (link above) you will see that I do nothing with pop-ups and things that tend to drive away traffic. I do not use templates (believe me, once you see my site, you'll NEVER forget it either... it stands out THAT MUCH, the whole thing is fully hand coded and doesn't suffer from bland template syndrome, which often causes people to leave. And every page of my site, contains no fewer then 100 links to other pages of my site. Yes, one hundred links on EVERY page, sending readers to other pages.
Because of those 100 links on every page, THESE are my traffic stats:
I mention this because the AVERAGE stats for AVERAGE blogs is viewers staying 30secs per page, 83% LEAVE without clicking to a second page. That's STANDARDS the average blogger can EXPECT and be considered SUCCESSFUL. As you can see, my stats are leaps and bounds above and beyond the average.
In 2016 I quit my day job to do my blog full-time. This is now my full time job, I spend 40 to 80 hours a week writing, editing, and publishing articles.
So, my suggestion to you, with a poetry blog... start writing daily articles geared towards helping other poets. Write how to write poem articles. Write how to publish poetry chapbook articles... you'll get far more traffic from teaching others how to write poems, then you will from publishing poetry... this in turn will bring more eyes on your poems.
And who knows where you'll be able to expand it from there. When I started mine 22 years ago, I was just sharing a few short stories here and there. I never dreamed it would evolve the way it did or that it would become my full time career. That wasn't what I set out to do. But it was the natural evolution over time. The reason my site got bigger while others didn't, is because when I saw the opportunity to expand topics, I grabbed it and ran with it. I could have continued posting short stories and not expanded to help others, and had I stayed there back then, and NOT started writing the non-fiction articles, I'd still be struggling to gain views.
I started out writing for the sake of sharing my work, now I write to help people learn how to write their own works. And THAT is the difference right there. My early blogging efforts were me self-expressing, my later/current blogging efforts are me helping others better themselves.
While people like being entertained with fiction, they'd rather learn useful non-fiction information instead.
Put your readers first.
Find out what they WANT and NEED to improve their lives.
Find the thing you do best and teach others how to do it too. Share the knowledge, your readers will love you for it.
Me? I knew how to write short stories. It was info other writers wanted. They didn't want to read my stories, because they wanted to write their own stories. By helping them learn how to write short stories, I ended up gaining a following I never could have gotten through just sharing my short stories alone.
Don't be selfish either... DO NOT focus on making money with your blog!! That's the fastest way to chase readers away. If EVERY article on your site is a review linking to a book for sale on Amazon, readers know you are just a self-serving gubber for affiliate clicks.
They don't care about you.
They don't care about helping you make money.
They care about THEMSELVES.
They want to know what they CAN GET FROM YOU.
You become the giver. Give, give, give...share your knowledge, and don't charge them a penny for it.
Help others to help themselves and you'll start getting more traffic then you know what to do with.
Hope that helps.
>>About a year ago I tried to spin up a blog for reviewing political books. Essentially the business model was to review a new book, then give people the option to purchase it on Amazon. I'd make a commission on any sales.
This doesn't work and I'll tell you why...
Let's face it. People are greedy and self serving.
They grab up anything they can get their hands on. And the second they think you are out for yourself, they cut ties and run. To keep people coming back, you have to let them think they can continually return to fulfill their own needs. You don't ever leave them thinking they are helping you, you ONLY let them think you are helping them. Be seen as the selfless giver.
Like I already said in my other post:
If EVERY article on your site is a review linking to a book for sale on Amazon, readers know you are just a self-serving gubber for affiliate clicks. Don't let readers think that!
They don't care about you.
They don't care about helping you make money.
They care about THEMSELVES.
They want to know what they CAN GET FROM YOU.
You become the giver. Give, give, give...share your knowledge, and don't charge them a penny for it.
Be seen as the selfless giver.
The moment readers think you are trying to get money out of them, they are gonna high tail it out of there and you'll never see them again.
[Question] How do you stay motivated? from Blogging
[Question] How do you stay motivated?
I know every one recommends to pick a "hot topic niche" one that has "lots of great keywords" so you'll get lots of traffic, blah, blah, blah... but for me, I'm a very hyper person. I have Schizoaffective Personality Disorder... if you've never known anyone with it, basically it means I', like a person with ADHD that went into overdrive and just keeps getting more and more hyper every day. People joke about the squirrel with ADHD saying: "I have ADHD, I can never.... oh look a squirrel..." Schizoaffective Personality Disorder is more like this: "I have... OMG squirrel... hey glittle... wow carrots! I wonder if I could put glitter on that squirrel...OMG I'm craving a donut...wow look at that car..."
So, yeah, try to be me and only have one niche topic on my blog. It ain't gonna happen. If I tried to stick with one topic on my blog, I'd lose motivation so fast. I know because I did. I tried to have a one topic blog. And do you know what happened? By the end of the month I has 32 blogs each on a different topic. I tried to manage all 32 blogs, updating daily for 3 years... that's didn't go well. I'd update one every day for a week, neglect the other 31, then find a new topic completely that didn't fit any of them. After 3 years of that, I realized the only thing to do, before I ended up with 100 different blogs (which was the direction I was headed at that point), was to start a new blog, them take ALL my 1 topic niche blogs, and import all the posts to my new blog.
See, I was posting daily, no problem, but I wasn't posting daily on any one blog, which was a major problem.
So, this new blog, which I started in 2003, was now a "Me and my life and whatever I feel like yapping about today" topic. And it worked. It's now 15 years old, and has 10,200+ blog posts on it. Who know what topic I'll write on from from one day to the next. One day it's comic books and the next day it's car repairs, then it'll be a book review, then it'll be a Trump rant, you never know what you are gonna get when you read my blog and I never know what I'm gonna write from one day to the next either.
But the thing is, I'm always motivated to write daily now, because I'm no longer feeling like I have to try to stick to any one topic. My brain is just too all over the place and scatterbrained to stick with any one topic for more than a couple of days. And for me, trying to stick to one topic was a major motivation killer. Now I can write whatever I feel like writing that day, and because of this, I'm always motivated to write. By taking down the wall of sticking to one niche topic, I freed myself up of roadblocks and gave myself motivation to write whatever I'm thinking about that day.
May not work for everybody, but it worked for me.
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