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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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Fantasy writing: coming up with reasonable-sounding place names

I use the method that was invented/created by Robert E. Howard for his Conan the Barbarian series.

What he did was this:

• Pick the culture you want to base your fictional culture off of
• Reverse the spelling
• Put a vowel at the end
• End result is a word that sounds like it belongs in the culture, giving your story "authentic cultural flavour" without requiring you to study linguistics

So, picking some real places and using their names to get fictional places results in:

• Cameroon + a becomes Nooremaca
• Rwanda + e becomes Adnawde
• Zimbabwe + i becomes Ewbabmizi
• Bangladesh + o becomes Hsedalgnabo
• Timor-Leste + u becomes Etsel-Romitu
• Tonga + y becomes Agnoty

Then within each country you have the names of mountains, rivers, cities, etc, already there, and you just do the same thing for each one, which gives you a map already made, and all the names, being the reverse of a real language, means they all sound similar rather then sounding like pieces of lots of languages.

So, within the real country of Timor-Leste (which we have now renamed Etsel-Romitu), we find the following real world names of landmarks and change them same as before:

• Mt Ramelau + a = Mt Ualemara
• town of Maubisse + e = town of Essibuame
• Santa Cruz Cemetery + i = Zurc Atnasi Cemetery
• town of Dimboola + o = town of Aloobmido
• Jaco Island + u = Ocaju Island
• Lake Ira Lalaro + y = Lake Oralal Ariy

and then, if you end up with one you don't like, you can alter it by changing the vowel:

• Mt Ramelau + a = Mt Ualemara
• Mt Ramelau + e = Mt Ualemare
• Mt Ramelau + i = Mt Ualemari
• Mt Ramelau + o = Mt Ualemaro
• Mt Ramelau + u = Mt Ualemaru
• Mt Ramelau + y = Mt Ualemary

or changing the first letter...

• Mt Ramelau + a + b = Mt Balemara
• Mt Ramelau + a + c = Mt Calemara
• Mt Ramelau + a + d = Mt Dalemara
• Mt Ramelau + a + f = Mt Falemara
• Mt Ramelau + a + g = Mt Galemara

and so on, down the alphabet until you find one you like.

Robert E. Howard used this method because he had to put out so much so fast - he was writing for a magazine and was required to publish a new story every single week, so he didn't have time to build worlds or think up new names.

He didn't just do it with placenames either. He did it with character names as well.

For example if he wanted the story the feel Chinese, he'd take a real Chinese city, real Chinese towns, real Chinese river, and several real Chinese names, and do the whole reverse+vowel thing. He'd end up with a race of Fantasy people who seemed Chinese, but were not Chinese. He'd then give then Chinese style cloths, traditions, food, culture.

This method allowed him to build entire ethnicities in a matter of hours, instead of spending months building a culture the way many Fantasy authors do. It gave him maps to work with, character names, religious traditions, marriage traditions, family traditions, weapons, clothing styles, etc, all in an instance.

Say for example, you wanted to write a Chinese inspired culture, you could go to Wikipedia and take this:

We now take out all of the words that are names of places, people and things, and reverse them and add a vowel, to get this list:

•    + a =
•    + e =
•    + i =
•    + o = 
•    + u =
•    + y =

Now we take those new words and put them back into that description, to turn it into this:

And now without doing any world building at all, you have a place for your story to happen.

Now, this method is not without flaws and yes, you'll notice that if you do that straight up without tweaking, then some of the words are going to come of sounding awkward. So, you'll probably want to mess around with the words afterwards to make them sound better.

Even if you don't use the new words in your final draft, it makes it easier for you to write your first draft, if you at least have the words there. Rather then just writing "They crossed ~river A~(insert name later) to get to.." It at least gives you working names to use in your draft until you think up better names.

Also note that this method only works well with proper names and does not work so well with overall words.

For example doing it with common nouns makes words like this:

The quick, brown fox, jumped over the lazy dog.

• quick + a = kciuqa
• brown + e = nworbe
• fox + i = xofi
• jumped + o = depmujo
• lazy + u = yzalu
• dog + y = gody

The kciuqa, nworbe xofi, depmujo over the yzalu gody.

...which is just plain silly to try to read.

So, you don't want to use this method for creating an overall language. Though, you could if you needed an more alien language (such as actual aliens) do this. See how I go about creating Lovecraftian Style Alien and Demon Languages here.

This way of naming your countries and cities is also a method to use sparingly.

Generally use it for naming countries, big cities, and minor NPC characters your main character meet along the way. In other words, use it for things that'll only be said once or twice in your novel and not for things that'll be said on every page. You want to sprinkle the words in only enough to tell the reader the "cultural flavour" of the region. You don't want to drown the reader in lots of words they can't pronounce.

Also, only use it with fictional places.

For example, if you were going to ACTUALLY base you story in China, then use Shanghai NOT Iahgnahsa. While Iahgnahsa has an "Asian" sound to it, it would be offensive to pass it off as being actually Chinese.

You don't want to use it to make fun of a culture either. For example, in the 1950s it was common for political satirists who wanted to make fun of minority races, to write their place names in pig Latin, which is not very different from this reversal method of place naming. So be mindful of that sort of thing, and if you feel a word may be seen as offensive or seemingly racist then just don't use it.

Remember that the goal in using this method is to be INSPIRED by real places, when building your fictional places, and it is not intended to be used as a method of making fun of those places.

Many readers hail Robert E. Howard as the greatest creator of vastly detailed and highly believable world's and many writers try to emulate him, often without realizing how simple his method really was. They'll spend years trying to build a world... and yet... they often fail to consider that in the time it took them to build their world (3 years) he wrote ALL of his books, then commit suicide at a very young age. He worked at a hectic high speed pace, publishing WEEKLY novellas, outputting more stories in 3 years, then 10 authors combines ever publish in their entire lifetime.

People often ask me how I publish so many novels so fast... asking specifically how in the hell did I create the vast, highly detailed world of them so quickly, and they are always shocked to learn how very little world building actually goes into my stories. I do exactly what Robert E. Howard did: Grab a real world place, reverse it's names, then use it's real world culture and history and just toss my main character into that pre-built fictionalized version of the real world.

People have found lots of things to complain about in my novels, but the place names is not one of them. No reader has ever complained about the place names in any of my books.

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