On Writing Literary Fiction:
I'm not a fan of flowery descriptions, hidden messages, or metaphors
...and I can't write 'deep' or overly descriptive stuff

or

A Look At The Ernest Hemingway Style of Writing



By Wendy C Allen
eelkat_red_scarf.jpgWendy Christine Allen, 2019, able to sit up in a chair for the first time in years, and able to raise up my arm and wiggle fingers. This was when I started playing Witcher 3 on Twitch as part of my physical therapy to regain finger movement. Playing Witcher 3 daily from 2016 to 2019, is how I regained the use of my thumb and two for fingers on my right hand... it is also why I stopped playing Witcher 3 in 2019, once I had strengthen my two forefingers enough to start typing again.

Wendy Christine Allen, Old Orchard Beach's Autistic Author, Artist, Illustrator, & Art Car Designer

Counting Down to the September 23, 2028 50th Anniversary of my first published book (September 23, 1978)

If you are here looking for The Twighlight Manor series, The Crystonite Wars series, The Wild Years series, The White Rock Asylum for the Criminally Insane series, The Twisted Tales series, the Captured By a MerMan series, The Space Dock 13 series, The Kats of Planet Ptarmagin series, the stories about Miss Citten the Eel-Kat, or the stories about Etiole... ALL of those series were combined and consolidated into The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane Pink Necromancer series in 2014, so ALL the different series, are now under one series title.

List of the published titles still in print:

The Index of over three thousand stories in The Pink Necromancer series

What the series is about, for those new here:

The introduction to The Pink Necromancer Series. 

If you want some stories to get you started in The Pink Necromancer series, reading these first will give you a good introduction to the 3 main characters:

My Elves Are JellyFish...and I asked Google AI and ChatGPT 5.6 what they thought of this.

As requested, my daily writing prompt series is now available print paperback editions on Amazon.

There are 20 volumes of this writing prompt series currently planned and in varying stages of finishing, hopefully all 20 will be published by the end of 2026. I likely will do a 2nd series of writing prompt books in 2027.

The first of the Visual Novels/Video Games for The Adventures of Quaraun the Inane/The Pink Necromancer series is published and available on Itch.io, there are 3 more planned for release in 2026, 6 more planned for release in 2027, and the big 60-hour 80k word 150 page one (Quaraun Goes To the Fair) is planned for a 2028 release.

There is a Pink Necromancer card game and a Pink Necromancer board game, as well as a Pink Necromancer table top RPG supliment for Dungeons and Dragons, all in the works, and to be released over the next couple of years as well.

Health update: August 4, 2026 - in recovery for 6 months+ (at least until mid-January 2027...all book and video game releases are pushed back at least 6 months) see video below for why...
@eelkat

health update #maine #disabilityawareness #wheelchairlife #wheelchairvlogger #multiplesclerosis

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@eelkat Health update: #chickenpox #bellspalsy #RamsayHuntsyndrome #paralysis #recovery ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author
@eelkat

I seem to have had another stroke (during the night while I was asleep?) #stroke #paralysis

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Update Sept 3, 2026:

I am able to get around enough to take Koko to dog park... today is 29 days since getting out of hospital. My diet is still mostly liquid, but im eating some solid food again, but its like rice or soft mushy baby food type stuff because I still can not chew yet, though I can swallow again. My jaw is still not functioning good so im having trouble talking still. So there's been slight improvement to my mouth, throat, and jaw, but, zero improvement to my eye, which is a major concern, be Im almost fully blind right now. im legally blind since birth in my left eye, so I have no ability to fall back on using my left eye. My right eye is the one injured and my vision in it is "40% decreased" according to my doctor, but it wasn't good vision to begin with, and right now my right eye is not much different from my legally blind left eye. Which I why I have to have someone drive my car for me instead of me driving my car myself right now, which is very frustrating, because, being a female, I had to fight for over twenty years to be allowed to drive. I started sneaking out at age 31 and dressing as a man to go to Old Orchard Beach high school to get a ged, because us females are not allowed to go to school. And i was 37 years old when snuck out to the DMV and got a driver's permit and started going to college. I was 42 and 8 months pregnant when my family found out I was going to college and thats when I was punished by the backhoe driving over my house and my spine broken with a golf club and my baby born right then and killed with same golf club. So it's very frustrating now, so soon after finally being able to drive , to now not be able to drive because of an eye injury, especially after 14 years of being paralyzed from the golf club and not being allowed to have a wheelchair, again, because i am female and we females are simply not allowed to do anything. I hate the culture I was born into. I wish I had the freedom to go to school and drive a car the way American women do. I wish having my spine broken with a golf club and my baby killed with a golf club and a backhoe driven over my house was not how men in my family punishment women in my family for learning to read and write. Its so frustrating not being able to to drive again, so soon after 14 years being paralyzed, and being paralyzed by the golf club was the punishment for getting a driver's license back in 2013 after 30 years of men not letting me have one. I hate my family's culture and how they treat us women.

I get so sick of Americans telling me how they wish they could be a Gypsy… they are either misogynist woman hating pigs, or delusional idiots who haven't got a clue how shittily we Gypsy women are treated by Gypsy men, because no one in their righ mind who knows anything about Gypsy culture would ever want to be part of it. I hate that I was born a Gypsy. 

update sept 7, 2026

"You would not make a good teacher"... what does that mean, and why are there so many people on Railroad Ave and Western Ave and Cutts St why walk up to me and say that to me?

I find it very confusing. I have low functioning Autism (the Rain Man type) and so i have very little understanding of words beyond the basic ones, and i never went to to school, so I never learned maths or sciences, and I only had remedial classes at Southern Maine Community College, because I did not have an education to enroll with regular, I was there taking every reading and writing class they had to learn how to read and write, and also took speaking classes to learn how to talk (i spoke Shetland Scottish language because that was language my grandmother spoke but she died when I was 8 so I only knew that language to speak and write, and I was 37 when I went to college and 42 when I learned English speaking and I still cant speak English good yet), all the other classes I took were art painting and cooking.

So the phrase "You would not make a good teacher" makes no sense to me because it seems to imply that I am trying to be a teacher, but I don't have anything close to the education ti be a teacher, and im not trying to be a teacher. So I don't know why people keep saying this phrase to me and I assume it must have some sort of a slang meaning, but I can't figure out what it could be of why do these people keep saying it to me.

see video below for more information: 


@eelkat "You would not make a good teacher"... what does that mean, and why are there so many people on Railroad Ave and Western Ave and Cutts St why walk up to me and say that to me? I find it very confusing. I have low functioning Autism (the Rain Man type) and so i have very little understanding of words beyond the basic ones, and i never went to to school, so I never learned maths or sciences, and I only had remedial classes at Southern Maine Community College, because I did not have an education to enroll with regular, I was there taking every reading and writing class they had to learn how to read and write, and also took speaking classes to learn how to talk (i spoke Shetland Scottish language because that was language my grandmother spoke but she died when I was 8 so I only knew that language to speak and write, and I was 37 when I went to college and 42 when I learned English speaking and I still cant speak English good yet), all the other classes I took were art painting and cooking. So the phrase "You would not make a good teacher" makes no sense to me because it seems to imply that I am trying to be a teacher, but I don't have anything close to the education ti be a teacher, and im not trying to be a teacher. So I don't know why people keep saying this phrase to me and I assume it must have some sort of a slang meaning, but I can't figure out what it could be of why do these people keep saying it to me. #mainelife #biddefordmaine #maine #disabilitytiktok #Biddeford ♬ original sound Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

update Sept 15, 2026:

I have some slight movement in some my fingers again again after over a decade being paralyzed

you remember how I used to be a professional doll making, pattern designer, and embroiderer, back before I became paralized and before my son was murdered and being the backhoe drove over my house?

all my equipment, sewing machines, ect were all destroyed by the backhoe driving over my house, and I have been quardepelegic for over a decade because of it so could not use my hands to sew or draw or embroider, and so only continued to do my writing of novels since then because I could do that with dragon dictation software,

well, since 2016, I been playing Witcher 3 and don't starve video games on twitch livestream, one hand two fingers, as part of my therapy to regain nerve and muscle use of my fingers, and now after 10 years of that, I have somewhat more movement in my fingers and im thinking maybe I can try to do embroidery and doll making again, but not sure, anyways, now im rebuying all of my sewing and embroidery equipment that the backhoe destroyed when it drove over my house, and hopefully I can use my hand enough to embroider again.

waiting for stuff to arrive in mail, so soon I should find out if ten years of twitch gaming has given me enough muscle strength to use my fingers to embroider again.

update to the previous video, answering viewer question about lack of hospital vs broken spine

Wheelchair Fundraiser... I need to upgrade to a power wheelchair, the manual one just isn't enough anymore. But the power wheelchair is $25k. Yes, twenty five thousand dollars. Wtf? I can get a car for a quarter that price, why are wheelchairs so damned expensive? That's more money then I make in five years, so I need to start a fundraiser for it.

i can't write 'deep' or overly descriptive stuff

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Comment from discussion i can't write 'deep' or overly descriptive stuff.

i can't write 'deep' or overly descriptive stuff

>>also another fact: i am a teenager. yes, yes i am aware of the stigma that surrounds being a teen writer and i know many of you will look and talk down to me because of my age (im used to it). but just know that i am aware that as a writer, i have much to learn about life and about the craft before publishing...anyways, i decided to include this bit of information about myself because i think it could affect your responses. will i become a 'deeper' writer when i experience more hardships in life?

Ah... I'm now reading the comments and see the shitty comment you are replying to. Ignore them.

I published my first novel as a pre-teen, then several more while I was a teen; if any one talks down to you or says you can't write/publish because of your age, tell them to fuck off and then go right back to your writing. Never let someone else's perception about age, affect your goal to write.

>>i can't write 'deep' or overly descriptive stuff

>>my writing is simple and light. none of my stories or novels hold any deeper messages or meanings. my writing is also straight to the point... I'm not a fan of flowery descriptions and metaphors

>>i find myself comparing my simple written stories to the complex and deep ones that my writer friends create. i know this is bad, but i cant help it. i feel inadequate next to them.

If you are aiming to publish, you might find it difficult to attract a publisher. For some reason deep meanings, hidden messages, flowery descriptions, and metaphors do seem to be what they look for. I don't write those things myself, so, I end up self-pubbing a lot of my work.

My books are 75% to 90% dialogue, with descriptions mostly limited to one or two sentences at the beginning of each chapter.

I use very simple language (I ran it through one of those reading level graders, and they come back as 5th grade vocabulary reading level).

I never use a thesaurus to look for "better" words. I let my characters talk in bad grammar, double negatives, fragments, and run-ons.

I also let my characters say things like "ain't" and "thems there".

I don't use dialogue tags (he said, she replied, etc). The start of the conversation says who each character is, then it's 20 or 30 pages of dialogue before you see another "said" tag.

But then I write genre fiction, High Fantasy specifically. OMG! Try publishing High Fantasy that is anything less the 80% flowery prose, let alone is 90% dialogue with no said tags. Good god, the notes that get scrawled on the rejection slips!

Most publishers describe my work as "too literary" for their tastes. They've also used the terms "avant garde" and "artsy-fartsy". All LOT have said "not mainestream enough" and "too experimental" and "too much dialogue" and "not enough description" and "reads like a stage play not a novel".

sigh

The problem?

I like reading very stripped down, bare bones stories. I have a very hard time finding that style published, so I write what I want to read. Unfortunately, the reason there's not a lot of it out there is because it's not what publishers want to publish. Well, you know what? I don't care what publishers want to publish, I care about trying to find books I actually want to read, and if that means I have to write the books myself, well so be it.

The most common complaint I get is "this reads like something Ernest Hemingway wrote", which on one hand could seem like a compliment, him being a famous author and all, but it's always followed by a rant on how "he was a terrible writer, why anyone would want to emulate his style is beyond me". 

Once it was followed by a rant that said "you men are all alike! all write anti-feminist crap idolizing Ernest Hemingway" 

... uhm...

... okay, except I'm a woman, not a man, and I've never read Hemingway so I have no clue what his work or style is even like...and how is my work anti-feminist again? What? I think that was an editor having a bad day and lashing out at the next author they ran across. To this day, I've no clue how that editor translated my book as either anti-feminist or idolizing Hemingway or why she thought an author whose first name is "Wendy-Christine" was a man.

(TIP: if any acquiring editors are reading this: don't scrawl shitty, outbursts of rage over your own bad day in the margins of rejection slips; it's not constructive criticism, it leaves the author scratching they head going "What the hell are they talking about?", and it's also very unprofessional.)

Well, one things for sure: my work definitely rubs editors the wrong way! LOL!

But you want to know what the #1 reason I get for rejections of my books:

  • "we can not accept books featuring transvestite characters."

Yep. That's it.

The Quaraun series has gotten tons of glowing "I love it! But we can't accept books featuring transvestite characters" rejections.

Editors are constantly beaming with excitement over:

  • "well crafted characters"
  • "engaging storyline"
  • "held my interest to the end"
  • "I couldn't put it down"

followed by:

  • "but he's wearing a dress"
  • "you gotta rewrite it so he's not a transvestite"
  • "no one wants to read about the every day life of a transexual; they only sell in Erotica"
  • "you can't have a trans character in any genre but Erotica"
  • "transvestites are too controversial"

Americans scream and beg and demand diverse books, but when faced with actual diversity they run away screaming they don't want it.

No. No, my main character is a transvestite and I will not rewrite him to be otherwise.

But then there is that pesky problem of writing a series that crosses genres and is Slice of Life Literary in a Fantasy setting, with Fantasy races and Fantasy themes. And remember too that I've NEVER submitted these books to a publisher of Fantasy, and have only ever submitted these books to publishers of Literary Fiction.

Interestingly, one editor asked once: "Do you even read Fantasy?"

Uhm, yeah, about that...

...nope.

I've never once read a Fantasy novel in my entire life. Though I have read the Lythande short story series (about a transgender wandering vagabond wizard) and I fell in love with it and my work was heavily influenced by it (easy to notice if you know the Lythande series, then realize my Quaraun series is ALSO about a transgender wandering vagabond wizard).

The Quaraun series fanfics the hell out of Lythande, literally taking every Lythande story and totally re-writing it, then running rampant with "What if...?"

I never set out to write Fantasy. I set out to write a continuation of Lythande, so I write my own works in the same haphazard, disjointed, bad grammar, lots of dialogue, slice of life, mish mash style the Lythande stories were written in.

Because I loved Marion Zimmer Bradley's, writing style in Lythande stories, so much I actually make it a writing habit to once a year, manually hand write, copy, word for word, the Lythande stories just so I can teach myself to write in this psychobilly off the wall style the Lythande stories were written in.  And I know the entire writing community laughs at Lythande calling it one of the worse written pieces of crap of all time, but that doesn't change the fact, it's still my favorite book and the Quaraun series is fanfiction of it.

If you don't know it, Lythande is an insanely overpowered wizard. The only female of a male sect of wizards, she has to hide her gender and live as a man, risk being executed if her sect finds out she's a female. The series is over the top mega sexualized Yuri (lesbian erotica), with the base story being that Lythande is the most beautiful person ever, and living as a man, women in taverns everywhere are throwing themselves in her lap begging for sex, not aware she's a woman disguised as a man.

The Lythande series is noted for it's weird, bizarro sex scenes, featuring Lythande creating illusionary male doppelganger versions of herself to fuck every women she meets, while she gets off on watching. It is by far one of the strangest works of bi-sexual/lesbian fiction to ever come out of the 1970s.

I started writing wizards BECAUSE of the Lythande series. I followed it rabidly, waaay back in the 1970s and 1980s when it was still being written. Sadly the author died before she finished writing it, so it remains in unfinished fragments. The scattered mish mash fragments of it have since been compiled into a "novelised edition" that has had other authors come in and write the "in between pieces" to try to link the disjointed short stories into one longer fluid novel.

But, yeah, no, Lythande is the limit of my having read Fantasy and it's not a novel, but rather was a series of short stories published in magazines in the 1970s. And while it's about a wizard, it's not your typical Fantasy story and is very much slice of life literary fiction that follows the strange sex life of a lesbian wizard who is pretending to be a man. It almost, but not quite crosses the line into being Erotica.

Like I said... I NEVER set out to write Fantasy. I set out to write more books in the shadow of Lythande, and while Lythande is Fantasy, it's it's own unique brand of Fantasy that turned the entire SFF community on it's head when it was released.

White male authors HATED Lythande for it's blatant pro-feminist, anti-male massage.

Straight readers were appalled by it's LGBTQ+ sexuality boldly on parade.

Lythande is one of the first stories ever written in ANY genre to feature a transgender main character.

Authors today, 50 years after Lythande was written, who live in a world where writing LGBTQ+ characters is common and accepted, have no idea the shock waves this EXTREMELY controversial book sent out when it was released. Lythande is the book that changed history, it's the REASON you can safely write LGBTQ+ characters today and not be sent to prison for doing so (except in Florida, the only state left that still in 2018, has laws against transgender characters and imprisons authors living in Florida who published trans characters)

Lythande shook Christian readers to their core by bringing lesbian themes into the Fantasy genre.

If Lythande had not been written when it was, and the author not stood her ground and demanded her right to publish LGBTQ+ characters, we wouldn't have the freedom to write LGBTQ+ characters today. I think a lot of people today overlook the significance this controversial piece of Lesbian Literature has had in changing our rights as authors to write.

Lythande is the book that CHANGED the publishing industry, and made it "okay" to feature LGBTQ+ characters in a GOOD light as none villains. It was the first book to ever do this.

No, I didn't set out to write Fantasy... I set out to follow in the footstep of Lythande. 

So no, I don't read Fantasy novels. I just read Lythande and set off to write something like it. But even now in 2018, we still live in a world where you can publish a woman in pants and no one bats an eye, but try publishing a man in a dress and you'd think you just assassinated the President. No, no, no, no... it's still only equal rights for women who dress like men, while men who dress like women have no rights at all. 

Such is the world we live in, and so as it now hails its 40th anniversary, the Quaraun series is STILL self published with no trade publisher willing to sully their hands by featuring a man in a dress as a main character.

It's been five decades since Lythande broke through these transphobic walls of the publishing industry and still we have not yet achieved full equality.

But I'm getting off topic, let's get back on track before my Lythande obsession side tracked me.

I tried reading Lord of the Rings... I made it to the Hobbits' 25 page long song recital and tossed the book.

I read all 7 Harry Potter books, largely because I thought they were about wizards... but then I read them, and yeah... please tell me WHERE are the wizards in Harry Potter? J.K.Rowlings doesn't seem to have a clear grasp on what a wizard is. Sorry. She doesn't seem to know what witches are either. She seems to think that it's enough to toss a wand in someone's hand and poof, now they are a wizard. That woman really needs access to a dictionary. And a few history books. And then there's the question, can a story about a modern day bitchy, angst, whiny, cry baby 10 year old, struggling through school really be called Fantasy? There's no Fantasy going on in Harry Potter. It's a bunch of kids struggling through school, with, here let's put robes on them and toss a wand in their hands, now we can call them wizards, oh look, a troll ran through the dungeon, now it MUST be Fantasy.

Sure, small children who have no clue a thing about real world magic arts can be easily duped into thinking Harry Potter is about wizards, but I am  a Voodoo Priestess rank of Medsen Fey. I do readings, spell castings, curses, and exorcisms for clients. I'm also a Ceremonial High Magic Necromancer. I trained under the Hebrew Enochain Kabbalist Etiole de bleu de Azure Swanzen, famed for his ability to call up Devs, Ghuls, Daemons, and Djinn, the terror of Maine known mostly for his deadly 7 Year Retribution Curses and Mirror Box Wanga Death Spells. I was his apprentice for 37 years and have now taken over for him. I'm sorry, but real world ritual magic is an everyday part of my life and I don't know what you want to call the kids in Harry Potter, alien mutant from X-files maybe, but they certainly are not wizards, not by any real world definition of the word.

Harry Potter is angsty teen, high school drama, with elements from Fantasy in it. It's not something I would classify as Fantasy. Technically though, Harry potter isn't sold in bookstores as Fantasy, either, it's sold as Middle Grade Fiction, Young adult Urban Fantasy, and Coming of Age Story. It's generally only readers who don't know the definitions of genres who call it Fantasy. And Yes, Urban Fantasy is a vastly different genre then Fantasy, that's why it has a different name.

I did make it through Lord Valentine (Majipoor), The Pern books, and For The Love of Mother Not, but it's hard to call those Fantasy, when they swing so heavily into Space Opera Sci-Fi.

I also read all of The Chronicles of Narnia, but it's difficult to call that level of evangelical Bible bashing true Fantasy... it's more of a religious tract of repent or burn in hell, then it is outright Fantasy.

Now, all that said, you want to know something else? I know my books are Literary first and Fantasy elements after, and I don't submit them to publishers of Fantasy, because I do read publisher submission guidelines and am well aware that these books are not what they are looking for.

No, it's not Fantasy publishing houses, bitching and moaning that my books are:

  • "too literary for my tastes"
  • "avant garde"
  • "artsy-fartsy"
  • "not mainstream enough"
  • "too experimental"
  • "too much dialogue"
  • "not enough description"
  • "reads like a stage play not a novel"
  • "this reads like something Ernest Hemingway wrote, he was a terrible writer, why anyone would want to emulate his style is beyond me"
  • "you men are all alike! all write anti-feminist crap idolizing Ernest Hemingway" 
  • "Do you even read Fantasy?"

No... these things came from Literary Press publishers and publishers of Experimental Fiction. I'm sorry... my books are "too literary" for Literary Press? How is that even possible?

And so while I do not read Fantasy, I do however read a TON of Literary Fiction, thousands of volumes of short stories, particularly small university press published works written in the Slice of Life style, which I've since learned is a style that was created by Ernest Hemingway and is also known as The Ernest Hemingway Style of Writing. When I learned that Hemingway was the inventor of the Slice of Life style of writing, suddenly it made sense to me why so many editors/publishers were telling me my novels were "too much like Hemmingway". I LOVE Slice of Life Literary Fiction, and yes, I do write that style, I just do it with magic and Elves and wizards instead of the current era angsty teenagers that typically grace the genre.

After 30 years of being told my books were crap because they read like Hemingway's books, I decided, maybe I should look up this Hemingway guy and find out who he is and what he wrote. Should probably know what I'm being compared to. So I was in my 40s first time I read Hemingway, and you know what I discovered? People are right. I DO write like him! OMG! Almost exactly! Now I have a new favorite author. I love his stripped down, bare bones, no nonsense, right to the point, 99.9% dialogue, no descritions, no dialogue tag, very stage-play-esque style. Okay. So, now I know I write like Hemingway, but, then my question becomes... why do so many editors and publishers think the Hemingway style of writing is utter crap-tastic shit that should never see the light of day?

>>my writing is simple and light. none of my stories or novels hold any deeper messages or meanings. my writing is also straight to the point... I'm not a fan of flowery descriptions and metaphors

Yep. I'm with you there. I do the same thing and I too do not like flowery prose.

>>i find myself comparing my simple written stories to the complex and deep ones that my writer friends create. i know this is bad, but i cant help it. i feel inadequate next to them.

I think, instead of feeling inadequate, you should instead bask in the glow of your uniqueness and be proud of the fact that you don't follow the crowd and do what everyone else is doing, just to fit in.

I know when people say "we need more diverse books" they generally mean, needing more non-white or non-straight characters, but there is more to diversity in books then just a character's race or sexuality... there is also diversity in style of writing too.

Don't feel bad about your work. Never let anyone make you not proud of what you write. Writing is hard work. You pour your heart and soul into it. Let your writing be what you want it to be, not what others think it should be.

How do you write overlapping/simultaneous dialogue in a novel/short story? from r/writing
Comment from discussion How do you write overlapping/simultaneous dialogue in a novel/short story?.

"Well you could..."
"I think you should..."
"...separate it into phrases."
"...keep people's phrases together."
"I just said that!"
"So did I!"
"Or we can say it together!", they said at the same time.


^^^This fast moving, overlapping, interrupted, dialogue without tags format is called, The Ernest Hemingway Style of Writing (his novels went on for 100+ pages in this manner without ever including descriptions, narrations, character names, or "said" tags)

Yes, I know, the entire writing community hates Ernest Hemingway and every editor and publisher on the planet wishes he'd killed himself sooner so they didn't have to acknowledge his books exist, and the going advice is to run from his style of writing like it was the plague, but I love this style of endless non-stop dialogue, free of descriptions and tags, I do write the Quaraun series in this format, and I wish more authors would use this method as I love dialogue written like this.

After reading Hemingway, a habit I started doing fewer than 5 years ago, I'm left to wonder why it is that every author, editor, and publisher I've ever crossed paths with, hates him with such verhement fury.

About a year ago, somewhere on Reddit, this very sub, I think, there was a writer, who asked a very simple question: "How can I learn to write like Ernest Hemingway?"

They were met with well over a hundred replies from authors telling them Hemingway's style was shit and to not attempt to try it.

They called it old fashion, male power, out dated, anti-feminism, and a long list of other things. I've yet to find any of these things in his work.

They raved and ranted that it was a horrible style because of it's lack of descriptions or narration. They said it was difficult to read, confused readers, and left too much to the imagination. I must say, I have to wonder at the IQ level of someone who finds Hemingway difficult to read. A kindergartener could read his work and understand it. It's that bare bones and no nonsense.

The Hemingway style of writing is simple, clean, uncluttered, has no deep meanings, no hidden messages, contains no flowery descriptions, and has no metaphors. It's simple, bare bones, no nonsense, straightforward writing, that says things like they are. It's sometimes crude, and makes no attempt to whitewash the horrors of Human nature. Swearing, drinking, smoking, drugs, abortion, sex outside of marriage are all things found in his works. He makes no attempt to hide them. They are just there. In the 1920s, when writing such topics was very taboo.

You don't need a dictionary to figure out what he's saying because he didn't sit there with a thesaurus hand picking the most obscure words possible to use.

>>i can't write 'deep' or overly descriptive stuff

>>my writing is simple and light. none of my stories or novels hold any deeper messages or meanings. my writing is also straight to the point... I'm not a fan of flowery descriptions and metaphors

>>i find myself comparing my simple written stories to the complex and deep ones that my writer friends create. i know this is bad, but i cant help it. i feel inadequate next to them.

>>I write Young Adult novels, typically contemporary and urban fantasy.

It doesn't matter what genre you write in, any genre can be written in any style. 

Ernest Hemingway Style, is exactly that, a STYLE of formatting your words on the page. It is not a genre and can be used in any genre out there.

You, unfortunately are writing in the Ernest Hemingway Style, the single most reviled and most hated style of writing out there. Every author on this subreddit will be coming after you in lynch mob fury at the horror of someone not writing purple prose. Every editor and publisher on the planet will scream raging infernos at you. And I don't know why, other then, they have snooty pretentious-sticks up their asses.

Readers love Ernest Hemingway. Authors, editors, and publishers hate him. Go figure.

If you are aiming to publish, you might find it difficult to attract a publisher, especially if you are aiming at the YA or Urban Fantasy markets. Both have die hard readers that expect flowery prose, hidden messages and deep meanings. YA these days seems to REQUIRE some Bible-thumping, bash that moral into your reader's brain message to be well woven into it.

YA readers just want to read an entertaining story, but YA publishers have to cater to the white power, gay hating, born again Christian American parents who buy the books, to hell with what the children WANT to read. For some reason deep meanings, hidden messages, flowery descriptions, and metaphors do seem to be what they look for, especially in your chosen genre, so writing bare bones, entertainment for entertainment's sake is going to make it very difficult for you to get your work published.

I don't write those things myself, so, I end up self-pubbing a lot of my work. I remember as a kid, being absolutely disgusted by the way The Lone Rangers would be in the middle of a fight with the bad guys, then would suddenly stand up, brush himself off, face the camera, point at the kids watching at home and say: "Now remember kids, don't try this at home!" then jump back into the fight with the bad guy.  I was 6 years old first time I saw an episode of The Lone Ranger do that and it pissed me off. I hated it. I wanted to watch the damned show, I didn't want to be lectured by some know-it-all-adult. Adding those "public service announcements" into the show, totally ruined The Lone Ranger for me. I loved the show, I hated the lectures.

You want to write for teens, write for teens, not their damn, shit-head, holier-then-thou, know-it-all, bully parents. Americans think they know what's right for their kids? Then tell me this:

  • Why is it 80% of all female Americans will have 2 abortions before the drop out (not graduate from) school at the age of 14?
  • Why do 93 CHILDREN die each month in the state of Maine alone, from drug overdoses?
  • Why are there an average of 500 drive by shooting done by teenagers in Chicago, every month?
  • Why does 3 in every 9 children in America die from starvation before reaching the age of 10?
  • Why have 42% of all school in America experienced 3 school shootings since the year 2000?
  • Why do 73% of the members of the Ku Klux Klan join on their 8th birthday?
  • Why is it 94% of the 2million residents of Maine received their first gun on their 8th birthday?
  • Why does America's average heroin addict get their first taste of drugs from their parent's stash before they are 10 years old?
  • Why is it that 2 or of every 3 females in America were raped by a male relative before the age of 12?
  • Why is America the #1 producer of child sex slaves and pre-teen prostitution?
  • Why do 1 in every 7 residents of the state of Maine own a machine gun?
  • Why is 1 in every 4 machine gun owners in the State of Maine under 10 years old?
  • Why is 1 in every 5 gay men in America, murdered before they reach the age of 15?
  • Why is 1 in every 14 transexuals in America beheaded?
  • Why are the heads of 1 in every 5 LGBTQ pet owners' pets in Maine, nailed to their LGBTQ owners' front door?

I'm sorry. Please explain to me, WHY is it that publishers think American parents know what's good for their children, when they can't get their white-power, gay-hating heads out of their Bibles long enough to raise anything other then terrorists?

YA readers just want to read an entertaining story, but YA publishers have to cater to the white power, gay hating, born again Christian American parents who buy the books, to hell with what the children WANT to read.

It's the parents not the kids who want us authors to weave hidden messages and deep meanings into out novels.

Deep descriptions exist in YA novels, because parents have an agenda they want to push, a message they want brainwashed into their children, they don't want their children to have the freedom to think on their own, so they make sure to buy only books that will instill "values" (how to hate everyone different as much as possible) into their children. Parents, not children, buy the books that are riddled with hidden messages, and publishers seek to publish what sells.

If you want to write books that are not riddled with hidden messages to the masses, then, don't write YA genre. Children don't get to decide what they read, they no freedom and no rights, and by American law are nothing but property. 

Sad reality of the publishing industry, is the fact that the bulk of books sold, are bought by people who WANT a hidden agenda in their books. People WANT books that fit their world view. Publishers, publish what sell. Publishers don't care what it is as long as it makes money. It doesn't matter how much an editor loves it, they'll reject it if they think it won't sell. And it doesn't matter how much an editor hates a book, they are in this business for the money and will accept a book they abhor, just because they know it will sell.

The point is, you as an author need to look at your personal goals.

Are you willing to continue onward, writing stuff that you enjoy, but that will likely not be picked up by publishers? If money is not your goal and you are willing to self-publish, then, yes, you certainly can continue as you are now, writing the Hemingway style of writing that is simple, clean, uncluttered, has no deep meanings, no hidden messages, contains no flowery descriptions, and has no metaphors.

If, however, you are looking to trade house publish and become a money raking bestseller, well, you'll have to swallow your pride and learn how to write deep meanings, hidden messages, flowery descriptions, and metaphors, like it or not.

That's just the way the publishing industry is.





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i just found out there is yet another bizarre rumour going around. where are these wild rumours coming from? who is starting them? and why?

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since I've been flooded with hundreds of messages the past two weeks asking if I still own "the world's most haunted car", yes, and here it is, filmed today May 18, 2026… but my son Xavier is dead, i am crippled and given that people are AGAIN showing up calling my Dodge "haunted", calling my friend "an alien", calling me "transgender", and spreading wild defamation slander connecting me to Stephen King, I think I need to start taking down the contact information of every blogger, podcaster, youtuber, and social media account spreading these rumors, and sue every single one of them for CAUSING my car to be cut in half May 10, 2010, for CAUSING the backhoe that drove over my house August 8, 2013, for CAUSING my son's murder November 14, 2013, for CAUSING me to be crippled and in a wheelchair November 14, 2013, and for CONTINUING to CAUSE harassers to show up in person to harass me near daily, STILL now in 2026. EVERYONE telling you my car is haunted, telling you my friend is an alien, calling my car "the goldeneagle", calling my friend "Etiole", or trying to connect me or my car to Stephen King, is lying to you. They crippled me when I was 8 months pregnant, and a woman with a golf club, severed my spine and bashed my baby's head in, I spent 9 years relearning to walk, and the FBI is 13 years into the murder investigation and not yet identified the attacker who crippled me and killed my baby, both violently with a golf club and the FBI believes that it is friends and family of the woman who did it, are the ones who started and spread the rumors saying my car is haunted, saying I'm an alien abductee, saying all kinds of similar bs about aliens, ufos, ghosts, witchcraft, demons, and Stephen King connections, even though I don't believe in ghosts, aliens, ufos, demons, and had never heard of Stephen King before 30k of his fans showed up in my yard trying to find my car! FBI believes the backhoe driver and the murderer are the same person and it is a developer who wanted my land and so started the Stephen King, ghost, and alien rumors all in an attempt to drive me off my land, and when it didn't work they drove a backhoe over my house, and when that didn't work they crippled me and killed my son. Why are they doing this? How do I get them to stop?

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Do you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Avenue, Old Orchard Beach, Maine on August 8, 2013? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

My house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, July 4, 2013, photo taken because we had just finished building a baby room on the back. vs My house August 8, 2013, when the same group of people (yes group, the golf club woman was not alone when she attacked November 14, 2013, nor was she alone with her second attack July 2016.) who murdered my son on November 14, 2013 at Southern Maine Community College and crippled me July 26, 2016 at scarborough WalMart,... they arrived the first time with a backhoe on August 8, 2013, that they used to drive over my house, during a time of day that I normally was home asleep... I had to work a different shift at the Waffle Cone Pizza Food Truck at George's Parking Lot by Bill's Pizza at the OBB Peir, that day, otherwise, I too would be at the bottom of a landfill, along with my house and everything I owned that was also in the house. I was 5 months pregnant at the time and have been homeless for just under 14 years, homeless ever since....

... which means it is now only a few weeks from the 14th anniversary of my son's murder. I was 8 month pregnant November 14, 2013, and a student ay SMCC, and coming out of the Buglight Lighthouse art studio after art class, when a still unidentifiedwoman wielding a golf club attacked me, severed my spine, while I was 8 months pregnant, triggered early labour, then killed my son minutes after he was born.

While accusing me of being transgender, screaming "transvestite freak" and "look at that thing, that's Ken's son in a dress"... while I was 8 months pregnant.

eelkats_house_before_after.jpgMy house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, July 4, 2013, photo taken because we had just finished building a baby room on the back. vs My house August 8, 2013, when the same group of people (yes group, the golf club woman was not alone when she attacked November 14, 2013, nor was she alone with her second attack July 2016.) who murdered my son and crippled me, arrived the first time with a backhoe that they used to drive over my house, during a time of day that I normally was home asleep... I had to work a different shift at the Waffle Cone Pizza Food Truck at George's Parking Lot by Bill's Pizza at the OBB Peir, that day, otherwise, I too would be at the bottom of a landfill, along with my house and everything I owned that was also in the house. I was 5 months pregnant at the time and have been homeless for just under 14 years, homeless ever since.

The backhoe driver returned November 14, 2013, armed with a golf club, used it to break my spine and smash my baby's brains out on the ground

On November 14, 2013, my son was murdered. I was 8 months pregnant, leaving my college classroom, and just getting into my car, when 3 strangers, a man and two women, armed with golf clubs leapt out from behind my car screaming "kill or be killed, kill the transvestite freaks, kill them all before they kill us! look at that thing! That is Ken's son, look at how it's dressed! kill the transvestite freaks! kill or be killed"... while the bald man and the red haired woman chanted this over and over, the blonde woman, lunged with the golf club.

She severed my spine, I am now a quadriplegic, and been paralyzed arms and legs, and in a wheelchair for 13 years now. She broke my hips, my knees, my legs, ruptured most of my discs, and shattered three of my vertebrae so bad that the shards of bone acted like glass and embedded themselves into my spinal column nerve bundle.

The attack also triggered labour.

My son was born in that parking lot, and he lived only a couple of minutes, before the deranged blonde woman, beat his head in and smashed his brains out, with the same golfclub she had just used to sever my spine and leave me crippled for the rest of my life.

Realizing that I was not transgender, and they'd just murdered a baby, the man grabbed the 2 women and forcibly dragged them away to a 4 door white pickup truck, and they left me there to die.

The FBI told me later, that a few weeks before this attack, and transwoman, had murdered a cis woman, in a parking lot, abou 20 miles away from where I was attacked. The FBI, believes that my attackers, had somehow found out I wrote transgender fiction, connecting my real name to my penname, (my father's name is in fact "Ken", and I do have a brother) and believed that I wrote transgender fiction, because I was myself transgender, even though I'm not transgender. The FBI, believes the attackers, thought I was my brother, pretending to be a woman.

The FBI investigation, into my son's murder, has dragged on for 13 years, and still now in 2026, continues on, with the FBI, still not having yet identified my attackers, and only guessing at what their motive was.

Thus we come to 2014, and the full swing change of the series I write. WHY my series, went from just a transman main character living life, to the full blown Mpreg genre series that it now is today.

Before the attack, I had a chance of having a baby. I don't know. And because I'm in America, I'm too old to adopt. You have to be under 45 years old to adopt a baby. That is the law in America. I was informed this, when we tried to adopt, now that my injuries leave me unable to get pregnant a 9th time.

Thus began my obsessively writing, my transman main character, pregnant. Always pregnant now. Every time. Every story. Stories that now fully focus on pregnancy, labour, miscarriages, babies dying, babies living, raising babies... the whole series, since 2014 has devolved into an outright baby obsession.

Meanwhile, reborn baby dolls were suggested to me by my therapist, and have also become a deeply obsessive part of my life. Because 13 years ago my son was murdered minutes after he was born, because a transphobic bigot mistook me for being transgender, I'm STILL in a wheelchair, struggling to relearn to use my arms and legs, now 13 years later, and I'm still DAILY dealing with police officers and FBI agents who while they are trying to find my son's killer, they are also daily reminding me... oh, yeah, my son was murdered, literally ripped out of my belly, by a transphobe. Who still has not been located and walks free to kill again.

The golfclub woman as she looked during the golf club attack at Southern Maine community college November 14, 2013. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026.

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

The golfclub woman as she looked during the shopping cart attack at Scarborough WalMart July 26, 2016. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026.

zzzz999ClaireRed2016-screenshotIf you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

The 2nd woman as she looked at both attacks, her hair goes all the way down to her knees. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026.

Kendrascreenshot.pngIf you have any information about the identity of this child murderer's accomplice, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

Do you know who these two woman who crippled me and murdered my baby, at Southern Maine Community College at 10PM on November 14, 2013, are, and what their connection to the backhoe that drove over my house is? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

I am a legally blind quadriplegic, and low verbal, I have also published 138 novels in the last 48 years. It's not as impossible as people think. The problem being blind and quadriplegic, medically have different meanings then how those two words are used medically.

Fewer than 3% of all blind people see nothing. While 97% people who are classified as fully blind are able to see up to two feet in front of them. Legally blind means I can see more then two feet in front of me but not far enough to see twenty feet in front of me. In my case I can see about eight feet.

Quadriplegic, has varying levels, it means having a damaged nerve bundle in the spinal column causing limited mobility of all 4 limbs, (in my case this was done by a women wielding a golf club, who also beat my 8 month infant's head to pulp on the parking lot tarmak, at the same time she severed my spine with the same golf club; both on November 14, 2013; the FBI investigation into my son's murder and my being crippled has gone on now for 13 years, a few weeks away from 14 years now, and the FBI has still not identified the killer or her motive). Contrary to popular misconception, quadriplegic does NOT mean ZERO movement, it means means limited movement, specifically in means unable to lift arms over head, unable to grip fingers around objects to pick them up, and unable to stand for more then 5 minutes to a time. Because there are so many thousands of nerves in each limb it is actually very rare for there to be 100% no movement, but how much, and to what extent varies by patent depending upon the specific point of injury to the spinal column.

Meaning typing is still possible for over 60% of all quadriplegics.

In my case, it was the lower spine that was severed, cutting off completly my ability to move my right leg, leaving limited feeling in my left leg, and an ability to stand but not walk, with crutches, for the first 9 years. I regained enough nerve growth in my legs by the 9th year to be able to take ten or twelve steps allowing me to get out of bed for the first time since the golf club attack; This in turn lead to me being able to start using a wheelchair, as I was able to sit upright for the first time as well.

Because the shattered vertebrae bone fragments are broken off completly and embedded into the nerve bundle just above my tailbone, doctors were saying I would never walk again, but now at 13 years, I am able to push mu wheelchair like a walker, a distance of almost a thousand steps a day. Though doctors are still doubtful I will ever walk "normally" again, I have proven them wrong, when their said 13 years ago, that I would never walk again at all.

But because of the placement of the damage to my spine, regaining hand use, was always thought possible, it was just a matter of waiting long enough for nerve regrowth, along side daily finger exercises. I was able to continue writing, after becoming quadriplegic, because I still have use of my right thumb, and 2 fore figures of my right hand. And can type 90 words per minute with those 3 fingers.

I however have no wrist strength, elbow strength, or shoulder strength, so I am not able to form a fist, or lift objects, or brush my hair, or my teeth, all thing I have to have my caretaker do. But, those things are not needed for typing. Unfortunately, my pinky and ring fingers are "nerve dead" and drag over the keyboard, and cause horrific spelling errors and typos, which are incredibly frustrating to deal with.

Unfortunately trying to edit errors myself, just makes the errors worse, because those same two fingers drag over the keyboard yet again. Prior to the golf club attack, I rarely had spelling errors; now I got more spelling errors then someone is learning English as second language. Editing is a challenge, that I've had to accept, I simply can not do myself, and I have to hire several editors to help with that.

Low verbal means sounds can still be made, sounds that software programs like Dragon can be trained to recognize and translate, and type into full words. More then half my novels were typed with this method.

I still have a long ways to go before I am anything close to being able to do the things I could do before the golf club woman beat my baby's brains out and shattered my spine. And you know what's more frustrating then how slow mu medical progression has been? The fact that it's been 13 years and the police and FBI are still coming up at dead ends as to who the woman who murdered my baby was, or why she even did it.

My son's 14th birthday is only a few weeks away, but he didn't even get to live long enough to celebrate his 1st birthday, I don't even know why. And I can't wait to regain my ability to walk again, because regaining my ability to walk, means gaining the ability to go outside and start looking for my son's murderer myself instead of sitting at home trapped in a wheelchair waiting for the police and FBI to to find her. So, writing isn't a big priority for me anymore. I only write now, as a way to exercise my hands, in between relearning to walk.

Never let a disability stop you. Plenty of writers, artists, athletes, do not let either blindness, speech impediments, or limited mobility hold then back from perusing their careers.

Do you know who these two woman who crippled me and murdered my baby, at Southern Maine Community College at 10PM on November 14, 2013, are, and what their connection to the backhoe that drove over my house is? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

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