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FAQs About Travel Writing: (In context of writing Cozy Fantasy, Space Fantasy, Portal Fantasy, Heartwarming Magical Realism, and Slice of Life Travel Fiction)

As has been requested (endlessly) EK's Star Log is returning to the internet. You can still read the original archive here... https://eelkat.wordpress.com 

The reason you couldn't find it is because I set it to private un-index mode, meaning it no longer shows up in Google search results and can only be accessed by a direct link.

Meaning, if you didn't have the url for it, no amount of searching for it would tell you how to find it. Anyone who had the url could still access it though.

I had set it to private September 23, 2013, intending to move each page here to EelKat.com... however, November 14, 2013, after only moving about 30 pages, I was beaten up and left paralyzed for 5 months, then spent 18 months relearning to walk. I am still crippled and have limited mobility.

Below is one of the blog posts that originally appeared on EK's Star Log. The original articles are still online but no longer indexed in Google. Links to the original article, are included with this post, as is the original posting date. Clicking the links will take you to the original site, where you can see the old Space Dock 13 website still online. Space Dock 13 as it looked when hosted on WordPress from 2003 to 2013.

By Wendy C Allen

Wendy 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: BoomFuzzy's Chowder Dilemma If your ass ain’t freezing or your brains ain’t scrambled, you’re ain’t really trying A Very Important Clump of Grass The Washer Woman & The Fae Absinthe Slushies: An Ode to Frozen Green Fairy Wine Bone Dice Excited For The New Baby Zwodder: A Drowsy Stupid State of Mind Pink Sheep, Cheesy Burritos, and The Grim Reality of Zombies Open Grave The Phooka's Dragon School The Moon Goddess Laughs From The Rooftops The Jar of Pickled Toes The Book Burning Maggots, a You Can't Spell Hatred Without Red Hats A Day In The Life of a Bumbling Necromancer The Three-Seventeen Pee Expedition

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.

365 Cozy Writing Prompts For Fantasy Writers Vol.1: Daily Writing Prompts Series For Writers of Serial Pulp Fiction

365 Cozy Writing Prompts For Fantasy Writers Vol.2: Daily Writing Prompts Series For Writers of Serial Pulp Fiction

365 Cozy Writing Prompts For Fantasy Writers Vol.3: Daily Writing Prompts Series For Writers of Serial Pulp Fiction

365 Cozy Writing Prompts For Fantasy Writers Vol.4: Daily Writing Prompts Series For Writers of Serial Pulp Fiction

365 Cozy Writing Prompts For Fantasy Writers Vol.5: Daily Writing Prompts Series For Writers of Serial Pulp Fiction

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 ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

@eelkat The man who built the grease fryer bomb that blew up my house October 16, 2006, gets out of prison in 4 years. :( #thishapped #fbiinvestigation #mainelife #oldorchardbeach #Maine ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

@eelkat Answering #questions about my #multiplesclerosis specific #vocic #z51 #wheelchair ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

@eelkat #wheelchair #artcar #cairnterrier #doglife #mainetok ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

@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 ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

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.

FAQs About Travel Writing: 
(In context of writing Cozy Fantasy, Space Fantasy, Portal Fantasy, Heartwarming Magical Realism, and Slice of Life Travel Fiction)

FAQs About Travel Writing: Is travel writing a full-time or a part-time job?

Posted on Monday, March 12, 2012 | 2 comments

My Answer:

The answer is both and neither.

Both, because you could make it either a full time job or a part time job if you set out to doing enough travel, enough writing, and than find enough sources to publish said writing.

Neither because a full time job pays a minimum of $7.50 per hour for 40 hours of week per week, for a total of no less than $300 of income per week (or $1,300 per month or $15,600 per year).

Part time is the same $7.50 per hour, but at a rate of 14 – 32 hours per week, for an income no less than $105 and not more than $240 per week (or $455 – $1,040  per month or $5,460 – $12,480 per year).

Overtime is anything over 42 hours a week and typically starts at $12 per hour.

I say neither, because the average HIGH PAID writer makes $2,000 to $5,000 per year, even after putting in 50 to 60 hours of writing per week, which means they are getting paid at a rate of $3 per hour for working overtime.

The average writer, works a regular 9-5 full time job to pay the bills and uses the pay they get from writing as a way to buy Christmas gifts at the end of the year.

But than you are asking specifically about Travel Writing, which is one of the lowest paid sectors of the writing industry.

Many travel writers are lucky if they can get 1 or 2 articles published per year and even luckier if they can get paid more than $10 for the article.

Travel Writing is a job you do because you like doing it, it’s not a job you do for the money. Sorry, but if you only wanted to become a travel writer so that you could get rich quick, you chose the wrong field.  

You’ll be putting in a lot of work for not much pay, if any pay at all – many magazines asking for travel articles only pay you with free subscriptions to the magazine!

Travel writers who make the most money fall into three seperate groups:

#1: Writers of Travel Guides (books) for publishers such as “Lonely Planet”. (Places like this have on staff writers and publish 1 or 2 new books every 3 or 4 years)

#2: Writers of tear jerker eco/ envio/ civil rights articles for National Geographic magazine.

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FAQs About Travel Writing: What is the best way to become a travel writer? Where do you begin if you….

Posted on Sunday, September 4, 2011 | 1 comment

Now, I admit, I don’t do much travel writing, but I do enough of it from time to time, to be sent questions asking about it. Thus why I now find myself answering your list of questions.

A lot of questions here.

I’ll break them up and answer them in turn.

• A Travel Writer = One who writes about traveling. Includes bloggers, journalists, and freelancers.
• A Travel Blogger = A Travel Writer who has a blog, often a freelancer, rarely a journalist.
• A Freelance Travel Writer = One who travels, whenever and where ever they chose, writes about said travels, than searches for ways to publish said writing. They have more freedom, but at a lower pay. Any one can do it, no college degrees or experience is required.
• A Travel Journalist = A Travel Writer who is employed by a newspaper, magazine, or TV station and gets paid per assignment to travel when and where their employer tells them to. They go where they are told to go, when they are told to go, and write ONLY the assignments assigned to them by their employer, as they are under contract and will lose their job with the company should they try to sell travel writing to the company’s competitors. They have higher pay, but forfeit freedom to get it. College degrees are generally required, often Masters degrees in English/Journalism are preferred.

Which am I?

I suppose I fall somewhere between Freelance Travel Writer and Travel Blogger. Definitely NOT a Travel Journalist! But as I said, I’m not a travel writer per se, or at least I’m not your standard average travel writer, seeing how I don’t write pieces about places.

I’m more of what you could call a Life writer, I just write about events in my life, and travel happens to be one f those events from time to time.

Okay, so I guess you could say, I’m sort of a travel writer, more of a hobbiest travel writer than a professional travel writer, at the moment, which is kind of odd considering my career: I have written 30+ books, 200+ short stories, 2,000+ articles, a few plays, a couple of comic books, and I’m almost finished work on my first cookbook.

See, I’m a writer by trade and a somewhat famous writer, famous enough so I get sent loads and loads of questions asking for writing advice, and my habit of answering every one of those questions on my various blogs and websites, results in even more folks asking even more questions – including to ask questions in fields of writing I am not familiar with, but that’s another story.

And than there’s the fact I live in a motorhome. Which means I SHOULD in theory be a travel writer.

I guess I am more of a traveling writer rather than a travel writer! LOL! I write as I travel, but I don’t necessarily write about traveling.

How exactly did I get here? I just write about everything I see going on around me. How would I recommend you start? Just start writing about everything.

That said, travel writing is something I plan to expand upon, and hope to do more of in the future. At the moment I’m working on setting up a “How To” blog for RV travel and plan to expand that into a web site. (And if you are reading this article on Houseless Living, the blog or the website, than you already know this.)

I will tell you, that you can’t make a good income writing online, with just one site. I’ve been building websites since 1997, but I didn’t figure out how to build money-making web sites until 2005! One day it occurred to me – they are making money for hosting my sites, why can’t I make the money instead? I didn’t start making money online until 2007, when my first pay check was for a whopping .37c.

Today I have over 75 websites, 34 blogs, 500+ Squidoo pages, 200+ Associated Content pages, and a lot of written content across all of them, and finally in 2010 I was able to say for the first time that I am making money full time 100% online via my writing. It didn’t happen over night. It took a lot of years and a lot of hard work and a lot of writing.

And when I say a lot of writing, I mean A LOT. I write no less than 750 words a day and on a high yield day I often am writing 12,000 to 15,000 words a day. Most days, on average, I write about 2,000 words a day. EVERY DAY. Seven days a week.

Since 1978.

That’s 31 years x 365 days x 2,000 words = a minimum of 22,630,000 words, but keeping in mind I often with 12,000 words a day on weekends adds another 38,688,000 words to that total. And this is only my “work” writing, it doesn’t include my personal writing on MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter, forums, etc. Did I mention I write A LOT?

Mostly I write fiction (sci-fi & horror) and how-tos for self publishers and pet owners. But I also write about lots of “niche” topics too, including travel writing aimed specifically for people who travel in New England in their motorhomes. I think if I had stuck with just one or two topics or only one or two web sites, it’d be hard to earn a good income. You have to be flexible and write about EVERYTHING that interests you, be it travel or cats or cooking or whatever.

I’ve found over the years that I can make more money online than I can from magazines. Keep in mind I am primarily a self publisher and am not paid by any traditional publishing methods.

How much money do you NEED to live on? How much money do you NEED to travel? How much money do you THINK a writer makes?

*“I don’t have the money to _________.”* (travel, write, insert whatever you want in the blank!

Yep, I hear that one. A lot. People say this to me. Okay maybe their other reasons are valid, but money? Oh pleeease!

Never let lack of money stop you from living your life. You want to travel? Travel! Don’t wait for *enough* money.

There is NEVER *enough* money.

No matter how much money you have, you will always find reasons why you can’t travel until you have more money.

So forget money and just start traveling.

You don’t need money to travel. You have feet don’t you? Well use them! It doesn’t cost money to start walking, and you wouldn’t be the first person to walk across the globe.

Never let lack of money stop you from living your life.

You want to write?

Write!

Don’t wait for *enough* money.

There is NEVER *enough* money.

No matter how much money you have, you will always find reasons why you can’t write until you have more money.

So forget money and just start writing.

You don’t need money to write.

You have hands don’t you?

Well use them!

It doesn’t cost money to pick up a pen and start writing, and you wouldn’t be the first person to write without an income.

Money is just an excuse. If it wasn’t money, you’d find a different reason not to write now, not to travel today.

Will you make enough money from writing to fund your travels? Maybe. Maybe not. It depends on a lot of factors. Where will you travel too? How will you get there? What will you eat? What will you do? What will you buy? How will you get back home?

When people ask me, “Well how much do you make?” (Thinking, it’ll be a really high figure)

I tell them quite simply: $2,000

“A month?” they shriek, “That’s way more than I make!”

No.

A year.

I make $164 a month.

“Wait, a year? That’s like $5 a day. You’re joking. How can you survive on that?”

No, that’s $5.47 a day to be exact.

And look at how I live: a tent, a car, no electricity, no toilet, no running water (in other words no utility bills), no rent, no mortgage, I get up with the sun, sleep with the stars (thus no need for lights), I cook over a fire, I do more walking than driving, I travel in a small area (rarely leaving Maine, never leaving New England), I spend a large space of my time on the beach or hiking in the forest, the only thing I ever buy is food for me, food for my cats, and gas for the car and motorhome, the motorhome is parked most of the year, most travel is down in my car, and once I get where I’m going I park the car and walk everywhere.

Uhm…please explain to me why it is I NEED more than $2,000 a year to travel?

They just stand there flabbergasted and speechless. (Thank goodness! I was getting sick of listening to them whining about money.)

Now granted if I was driving more and walking less, or going overseas (thus needing air fare) or eating at restaurants or buying things, yes, I’d need more money to live on, but the fact is, those things are NOT a part of my life, so I don’t need more money than $5 to travel.

Staying in a small local like I do, means I’ve seen more of the area than any tourists or locals do. I’ve been in every city/town in Maine, I’ve seen every cove, every beach, every mountain, etc. I’ve visited most of the town museums, been to all the “tourist attractions”, attended tons of fairs and festivals.

Sure I’m not “seeing the world”, but than again, that’s not what I wanted to do, I wanted to see every single inch of the State of Maine. And I did.

And now what do I write about?

Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

Yep.

My home town.

Doesn't require traveling to write about the town you were born and raised in.

And before you say: "That's not travel writing!" Let me ask you this:

Did you know that more then 90% of all "travel articles" were written not by tourists, but rather by the natives of the town?

Look for articles about tourist distention all over the globe. Find the author of each article. Look at where the author lives. In nearly every case they are natives of the destination they are writing about and have never traveled at all, but instead write about their home town.

Its very rare for any book, magazine, publisher, editor, blog, or website to accept an article written by a tourists who ONLY visited their town for a few days and knows nothing about it.

Why?

Because publishers want to ATTRACT tourists to the town, and therefore want local historians, local tour guides, people who actual KNOW the town, to be writing about it.

If you want to travel - travel, but don't expect to find places to sell your articles. Your best bet will be to start a travel blog of your own and pray that your sporadic articles about random places all over the planet, can get even a hair fraction of the traffic one locale sites written by natives of the local get.

Travel sites that succeed are about ONE town only, and written not by tourists, but rather by local natives.

Travel writers who are the most successful, almost never travel and rarely have ever left their home town, with their home town being the site they write about.

I think when people think they want to travel, often times they are not motivated because they are not really sure where it is they want to go or what they want to see, or they think they HAVE to go every where and see everything, either way it fizzles their motivation so they look for excuses why they can’t go – like money. If it’s too hard to take a trip across the ocean, why not start small and take a trip across the town? Work your way up to farther away places a little at a time. No one said you had to start out big.

Likewise no one said you had to travel 4,000 miles away to get started travel writing. Somebody, somewhere, some day is going to want to travel to your home town. Why not get started travel writing BEFORE you start traveling, by writing about your home town? Write reviews of local attractions, places to eat, plays, museums, etc. Maybe it’s not travel to you, after all, you live there, but who better to write a travel guide about your town, than some one who lives there? Some one like you. Don’t wait for an out of town traveler to write travel spots about your town – write them yourself, right now, today.

I believe that starting out writing about “local travel” is the best way to find out if you really want to be a travel writer. Why? Simple.

For most people travel is exciting, travel is fun, and writing is boring.

Not many people who like the excitement of travel, can tolerate the dullness of writing.

Likewise few people who enjoy the quiet peacefulness of writing, can tolerate the fast paced hecticness of travel.

Most people who look to get into travel writing because they want to travel, have never even written a post card let alone tried to write daily articles.

Writing is dull. Travel writing is dull. Travel writing is boring. Travel can be expensive. A good paying writing gig is rarely going to pay more than $20,000 a year, and that’s a writer who is wealthy, and well, do the math, because that’s not even minimum wage pay. Yeah. Writer’s pay sucks. Most writers have a full time job to supplement their writing career. Rare is the writer of ANY field who earns more than $5,000 a year from their writing.

Think about it.

What is is you REALLY want to do:

Do you want to sit in an office writing for  or 5 hours every single day.

Or do you want to roam the world in never ending fast life?

It's gonna be really difficult to do both.

A 2,000 word article can take multiple days of 4 or 5 hours each to write, then re-write, polish, revise, edit, revise again... every hour spent writing, is an hour you CAN NOT get any sight seeing done. You know that right?

Think long and hard about it.

Ask yourself how much writing do you do? Do you write letters to friends or do you call them on the phone? Do you write 60 page emails or do you have a hard time getting more than 2 sentences out? Can you sit down and write about what you ate at McDonald’s today? Can you write a review about the local school play? If you answered “No” to any of these, than give up now. Turn back before you start. Do not try your hand at travel writing.

Now you are probably saying right now: “But I’m not going to write reviews about McDonald’s or school plays, I’m going to write reviews about Paris cafes and Broadway and Mt Fiji and a boat trip up the Nile River and…”

Hold on a second!

Stop and THINK about it.

If you don’t like writing this than you won’t like writing that.

Why? Because writing is NOT fun, writing is NOT exciting, writing IS dull, writing IS boring, writing has you sitting ALONE 4 or 5 hours a day.

Now, some people LIKE that. I'm one of them. I have Autism. Too much noisy, excitement, movement, etc, makes me nervous and triggers panic attacks. Being out in public, with people rushing about, screaming and yelling, bright lights flashing, cars zipping by... those things are major meltdown triggers for me.

Travel is not something I can tolerate. I can barely get to the end of my driveway without be scared back into the woods by the sound of a car driving by. It's nearly impossible for me to get to a store, because there are so many people being loud and noisy.

For me, the dull, quiet, boring nature of writing is absolute pure heaven. No one to bother me. No loud noises. Nothing to make me nervous or trigger panic attacks.

It takes a certain personality to enjoy sitting for hours on end in solitude, writing.

It takes a completely different personality to enjoy loud blaring noisy of people on trains, buses, planes, taxis, etc.

Not many people with the personality it takes to write, also have the personality it takes to travel.

Think about it.

Can you sit alone in a room, for 4 to 5 hours a day? Can you spend 4 or 5 hours a day, doing nothing but typing words? Put a timer on, right now, set it for 4 hours. Sit down and type.

Type: “I am not going to stop typing for 4 hours”

Type it over and over again, for 4 hours.

NOW ask yourself, do you STILL want to be a writer?

ANY kind of writer?

Travel writer or otherwise?

Because writer’s write and travel writers spend more hours writing than they do traveling.

So let’s think back to local travel writing. Go out around town and do a few activities you don’t normally do. Eat at a few places you don’t normally eat. Shop at places tourists shop at. Pretend you are a tourist and have never seen this town before. Than go home and write about it. Write as though you were a world traveler and this was one of your destinations. Write about the things you plan to write about in France or Japan or Africa. Forget that you are doing local writing. Forget that this is your home town. Just write, write, and write some more. Pretend you are a world famous travel writer writing a travel piece for National Geographic.

DO NOT start traveling and travel writing, until you have done this test first.

After spending a month or more doing local travel pieces step back and look at how you did. Did you enjoy writing these pieces or was it a drudgery?

Here’s the thing: if you don’t like writing about local travel, local news, local sports, local weather, local museums, local restaurants, local plays, local beaches, local parks, and local people...

...what makes you think you are going to like writing about distant travel, distant news, distant sports, distant, weather, distant museums, distant restaurants, distant plays, distant beaches , distant parks, and distant people?

Do you see my point?

If you don’t like writing local travel, you are not going to like writing “true” travel. Why? Because writing is writing. No matter where you live, where you go, what you do, or what you see, the writing part is always going to remain the same. It doesn’t matter what or where you are writing – writing is always writing and if you don’t like writing at home, what makes you think you will like writing some place else?

Many travel writers fail because they dream of traveling, but they do not dream of writing. If you want to travel, fine. Travel. If you want to get paid to travel, find a job doing something you enjoy doing. If you enjoy travel, but you don’t enjoy writing, you won’t enjoy travel writing and you’ll soon hate traveling as well.

So where does that bring us? Well, before you can become a travel writer, you must first be a writer. You must love the physical act of writing with every fiber of your soul. (You must also love to travel!) If you love to write, but you hate to travel, you’ll never make it as a travel writer. Find something else to write about. If you love to travel, but you hate to write, you”ll never make it as a travel writer. Find another job you can do on the road. If you love to write and you love to travel, than yay you, you’ll make a great travel writer!

Don’t be a travel writer because you love to travel – that’s the worst thing you could do.

Be a travel writer because you love to write.

Anyone can travel, but not every one loves to write.

Simple fact of the matter is this: to make money as a travel writer, you must like writing and you must write A LOT.

Keep in mind I have over 2,000 articles online and my income is lower per year than the average person’s is per month. This will put into clear perspective the kind of income you can expect. Keep in mind also that only a small fraction of my income comes from writing: 75% of my income comes from sales of my paintings. Puts the lens on a writer’s income clearly in focus.

Did you know that Harlequin Books is one of the top book publishers in the world, selling over 5 million books each month, and that their authors have to write 5 books per year just to earn a minimum wage income of $20,000?

Of all the writing careers in the world – fiction and non-fiction, Harlequin is considered the crown of a writer’s career, because their writers are among the highest paid writers in any genre in the world.

$20,000 is considered poverty level to most Americans, and yet to writers this is as good as it gets.

Now consider the fact that travel writers are known far and wide for being among the lowest paid writers. If Harlequins tiny $20,000 is considered high, you can imagine how low the low pay writers pay can go.

The average writer CAN NOT live on his writing income alone. The average writer earns less than $5,000 per book written.

That’s not $5,000 per year, that’s $5,000 over his entire life time, thus why many authors try to write no less than one book per month. The only exception to this rule is self help books, self-help books (esp get-rich-quick books) being the only genre that outsells Harlequin.

Now let’s get back to your question…

How much money do you NEED to live on? How much money do you NEED to travel? How much money do you THINK a writer makes? You saw the figures I just listed.

If you start writing now in 2011, you can safely assume you will not see a penny of pay before 2013 if you self publish and 2015 if you go with a publisher.

If you travel for a week, than come home and spend a week writing articles, you can than plan on 6 months wait between the time you submit to a publisher until you get a rejection. Than it’s time to resubmit, wait another 6 month, be rejected again, and so one.

Plan on each article being rejected no less than 10 times.

Some writers say to plan on 50 rejections per article, before it gets accepted. I wouldn’t wait that long before I self published it myself.

Once accepted, wait another 3 to 4 months to get paid, and another 6 months after that before it goes to print, IF it goes to print, keeping in mind that MOST articles accepted never reach going to print.

By now 3 years have passed since your week long trip and you have just FINALLY received a check for $25. (Standard fee for a travel article from an unknown writer).

Now ask yourself did the $25 pay for your week trip, the food you ate, the places you visited, the things you bought? Will $25 pay for your next trip?

Remember that for every article that gets accepted, several thousands of other articles were rejected. competition is fierce in the travel writing field.

Freelance travel writers get the least pay and have the least job satisfaction.

The most successful travel writers (money wise) are Travel Journalists:  staff writers for magazines like National Geographic.

They work on assignment, with a full crew and camera team, all expenses paid and get $1,000 per article, an article they wrote in their cubicle in their 131st floor office, back home…not “in the field”.

They do not pick their destinations, and while they get to travel, it’s business travel with no free time for seeing sights and doing things most travel writers dreamed of doing while traveling.

The most successful writers (happiness wise) are the Travel Bloggers. They go where they want, when they want, write about anything that pops into their heads, and tend to be free spirited globe trotters, enjoying long stays at each place they visit. They also rely almost 100% on Google ads for their pay, and depending on blog traffic this could be anywhere from a few pennies per year to $10,000 a day, though for most bloggers $100 a month is considered average..

So what you need to do, is figure out will this kind of job support the lifestyle you wish to maintain? How much money do you NEED to live on? How much money do you NEED to travel? How much money do you THINK you can realistically make as a writer? To help you figure that out, let’s take a look at my expenses:

Living the way I do, it is not uncommon for people to ask me:  “Can 2 people live on $1,500 a month and still travel?”

I am debt free. I pay cash for everything, no credit cards. I live in a tent, no rent or mortgage. I boondock, no electricity, no running water, no sewer, no utility bills. Me and my 12 cats are surviving on $2,000 PER YEAR. (approximately $150 per month).

Surviving is the key word.

Surviving is not thriving.

Surviving is staying alive until something better comes along.

I have Autism and thus am NOT ELIGIBLE for disability OR health/medical insurance, nor am I allowed to work (business will not hire Autistic folks like me…400+ job applications/ interviews in 5 years and I’m still unemployed. *frustrating*). For the moment my income comes from sales of my art on Zazzle.com, and it’s enough to keep us going, but not quite enough to keep us going well.

Anyways I figured it up and for myself and the 12 cats to live comfortably, I need an income of $500 per month ($6,000 PER YEAR).

If it were just me and not the cats, $200 a month ($2,400 PER YEAR) would be MORE than plenty. (Cat food is astronomically high priced. You don’t notice it with 1 cat, but what you would buy for 1 cat per year, I buy for 12 cats, meaning I pay the average cat owners YEARLY cat food bill EVERY MONTH!)

These figures are taking into consideration that I own my own land and that I’m a fulltimer, because my house left in a flood/fire/bomb not because I had any plans to travel.

I am pretty much parked for a lifetime. And my tent is actually an 8x6 tarp, not a tent.

So these figures also neglect to include such things as campground rent or gas in the motorhome, as a tank of gas pretty much lasts me the whole year.

Please keep these things in mind when looking at the fact I am living on such a very low income – my expenses are very low, basically with me only buying my food and cat food, and paying property taxes and registering the vehicles, and pretty much nothing else.

So, when they ask can 2 people live on $1,500 a month, well, this 1 person lives on that a year, so, yeah, you can but ONLY if your expenses are low. I once talked to a guy who lives in a van and survives on $500 a year. I don’t know how he does it, but he does. I think it’s all about personal choices, budget management, and lifestyle.

Every person is different. I look at that guy and think there is no way I could live on $500 a year, but than I know a lot of people look at me and say they could not survive on my $2,000 a year.

It’s all about how you live your life, what you spend money on, and how much you “NEED” to get by. With your $1,500 a month (a whopping, gigantically huge amount an almost unimaginably high figure of $18,000 a year) I could live like a king.

But for most people that is a low income, so you really have to look at what you spend money on, what you will be spending money on after RVing, and what sort of lifestyle you plan to maintain. Everyone has different needs and different ideas about what they need to survive, so everyone is going to have a different answer.

My advice: write a list of everything you spend money on RIGHT NOW.

Make a second list of everything you THINK you will spend money on while in the RV.

Compare those lists. For each item, ask yourself: Do I REALLY NEED this or do I simply WANT this?

If you're an American, you'll likely have HUNDREDS of useless, waste of money, completely needless items (like phones and TVs and beds and tables and chairs and clocks) that are absolute pure luxury items, you could easily do without. 

Heck, most Americans used to call the house I did have a shed and said it was smaller then a single bedroom in their house (it was 9 feet by 16 feet by the way).

If you're the average American, you live an exorbitant lifestyle and will find living like we Gypsies do difficult at best.

Try giving up everything you own, before you think about travel writing.

See if you can do THAT.

Compare those lists. For each item, ask yourself: Do I REALLY NEED this or do I simply WANT this?

Take all the items you NEED and put them on a third list. (Food, water, gas, medications, toothpaste, deodorant, soap, and almost NOTHING else, will be on this list.)

Take all the items you WANT and put them on a fourth list. (Hair salon, makeup, movies, snacks, hobbies, recreation, etc, will be on this list)

Make a list of POSSIBLE EMERGENCY expenses: accidents, medical, auto, break downs, blow outs, etc.

Tally your totals from lists #3, 4, & 5. Add all three totals together. Do they total $1,500 or less? If so, than you’ll be all set on $1,500 per month. If they total more than $1,500, head to the WANT list and start crossing off non-essentials, until your total is under $1,500. If you cross off everything on the want list, you CAN move on to the EMERGENCY list and start crossing things off, but this is not recommended.

If you have to start crossing things off the NEED list, than something is VERY wrong…there should be nothing but the barest essentials on this list: food, water, gas, medication.  If there is more than this on your need list, you need to rethink the RV lifestyle. Why? because it’s a minimalist lifestyle. Even with the highest income and the biggest rig, you still are living in a very small space and can not afford to keep buying things, otherwise you’ll have no room to live in your RV!

But anyways, if you plan ahead and budget your spending, yeah, I think you 2 should do fine with $1,500 per month, esp if you plan to do a lot of boondocking. Boondocking cuts costs down A LOT!

I am a full time boondocker.

I have to be.

A bomb blew up my house.

Bomber didn't give me a choice.

I live 100% without hookups, full time. No electricity. No running water. No toilet. I have yet to park in a campground (partly due to money constraints and partly due to I have 12 cats and few campgrounds allow more than 4 pets, nearly all have “quantity limits”. Even ones without limits, balk at 12 cats. My parking spaces thus far have consisted of: land I own, land owned by relatives, rest stops, and WalMart. For the most part  stay on the land where my house once sat, and don’t move any place at all. My house is a 1992 Volvo 240GL, as a general rule, when I travel I travel in the Volvo.

Having no electric hookups, (not even solar) I either eat no-cook foods (sandwiches, fresh fruit/veggies, etc), eat out (SubWay, pizza shops, cafes, etc), cook outside over a fire pit, or I drive the Volvo to a relative’s house and cook dinner there. I get my internet from libraries or take my computer to a relative’s house. I have no need for lights as I get up with the sunrise and go to bed with the sunset. What rare light I need a flashlight is plenty for.

Having no water hook-ups, I bath in the ocean, fully clothes, without soap/etc, using the mineral rich sand to wash my skin and hair. I live on the beach, obviously. I drink bottled water now, after a misshapes (major medical crisis) caused by drinking natural brook water.

Having no sewer hook ups, I know where every public toilet is and am walking distance to a dozen or so. And use trees and “cat holes” at night when businesses are closed.

Neighbors? There is a house to either side of me, and a 400 lot RV resort behind me, a 725 lot campground on the other side of one neighbor and a 200 lot “hideaway” park on the other side of my other neighbor. So yeah, I’ve got a lot of neighbors, most of them speaking only French and me speaking only English (I’m just south of Quebec). On my list if things to do: learn French so I can talk to the neighbors. The local WalMart has 10, 20, 30 or more RVs out there every night. So yeah, it depends on where you are parked. You could have tons of neighbors, a few neighbors, or really be way out in the boonies with no neighbors at all!

Most of the year, I live outside in a tent. On clear warm nights, I don’t even use that, sleeping instead in a sleeping bag under the stars. I’m a person very much at one with nature and being indoors doesn’t sit well with me. 

Now granted I am a bit more extreme than the average person. I’m fully content to life a fully “off the grid” living off the land lifestyle, but most people are not as in touch with their feral wild child as I am, so most people are going to want more “luxuries” than I afford myself. It’s all about choice. You can boondock a little or boondock a lot. You can boondock full time or part time, with no hookups at all, or with semi-hookups such as solar panels and composting toilets. It just depends on how much you want, how much you need, and how comfortable you want to be.

A thing to keep in mind: the more wild and less comforts there are in you boondocking – the harder you are going to have to work physical labor to maintain your boondocking. I haul water in 5-gallon pails from a near by brook (on my land). I have a garden and fruit trees on my land, but I till the 1/8 acre of soil with a shovel, not a garden tiller! I chop wood and haul kindling (no gas or charcoal grilling for me!) 

I like the hard labor of working and living off the land. But most people would rather not have to live the way I do. The more comforts you have, the less hard manual labor you are going to have to do. How much boondocking is too much boondocking? Only you can answer that, as every person has different ideas about what they want and how they choose to boondock. There’s a BIG difference between boondocking on your own land with no hook-ups at all, to boondocking at WalMart with self contained “hook ups”, to boondocking at a small campground with “semi-hook-ups” to boondocking miles from nowhere in the middle of a dense forest all by yourself, just you and the bears. You just have to look at all your options and decide what is right for you.

Start local.

Write about local travel.

Write for tourists who visit your town.

Go on camping trips, backpacking hikes, cultural events, etc.

Write about everything you do and every place you go. Get as much practice writing about “local travel” as you can, that way you’ll have your style and voice well hones out before you set off to your “real” travels.

I had no experience in the writing industry.

I just knew I loved writing, so I wrote about every thing. I had written my first book, long before I was a teenager, and has started writing non-fiction advice columns in my preteens.

By the time I was 16 I had already self published 4 books, several novellas, and dozens or how-to articles.

By the time I was 20 I had written more books than my age, was raking up stacks of articles, hundreds of them.

What did I write about?

Everything.

Absolutely everything.

I wrote about cars I liked, jobs I hoped to have when I grew up, flowers in my garden, my cats, my dogs, family vacations, I just wrote and wrote and wrote. I was addicted to writing.

Today at 36 years old I have written 30+ books, a few novellas, 200+ short stories, 2,000+ articles, a couple dozen plays, a few comic books, 75+ websites, 34 blogs, 500+ Squidoo lenses, 200+ AC pages, have won 7 of 13 writing contests, head the local writer’s group, I own a publishing house, and am working on my first cookbook.

What is required to get started?

Only one thing: the desire to write.

The will to write.

The motivation to write.

The love of the act of writing.

Just write.

I did not go to school.

When people hear that they think I mean college.

No. I have Autism.

I DID NOT GO TO SCHOOL.

*period*

I went to Kindergarten – Grade 3. I was pulled out of school at age 8.

I did not go to school, high school, or college. I was 35 years old the first time I heard of GEDs. I took the test and passed and broke a national scoring record, 6 months later. They made me take several college entrance exams and on each of those I passed, breaking state and national records each time. They made me take the MENSA test, I passed that too, and am now told I have one of the highest IQs in recorded history at 217, far above and beyond Einstein’s 160.  When they finally determined I had not cheated on the GED and asked how some one with Autism and with ZERO education broke the national test scores? My answer floored them.

When I was taken out of school I got a library card.

I proceeded to read all 12,000 books in that library, and when that library ran out of books I got another library card.

Today 30 years, 5 libraries and many hundreds of thousands of books later I am working my way through the state library’s 2 million book collection.

Turns out that because I DID NOT go to school, I got the best education of all. They also tell me someone without Autism would not have been so driven as to read every book in 5 libraries.

Really?

What do I know of what “normal” people would do, after all, I’m just the retarded kid with Autism who was too stupid to attend school, remember?

Of course Einstein and Bill Gates both had/have Autism too, schooling was not a thing in their past either.

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you need college to succeed. If you want to succeed, you need a brain that can think for itself, not a piece of paper hanging on your wall. Sure college will help, I’m not saying don’t go, (I would like to go myself one day), I’m just saying…go to learn something useful, don’t go just because someone else did.

I am totally self taught, never taken any classes. I am highly self motivated, though, so don’t let that stop you from taking classes yourself. It can’t hurt to learn everything you can.

Very, if you are talking about magazines and newspapers. It’s very hard to break into either. Nearly as hard to get a book proposal accepted. Your best bet is to start out with a travel blog and a travel web site and build a “name brand” reputation for yourself.

Find your muse. If writing is your muse, than run with it. If travel is your muse, fly with it. If you want to write about travel, write about travel. Don’t let any one or any thing stop you. Do it because you want to do it. Write about the things you enjoy. If travel is the thing you enjoy, than write about it.

Have you ever read the book “The 4-Hour Workweek“?

If not, check it out at the library and read it. Very inspiring book. It’s not a travel writing book or a book on travel or a book on writing.

Basically what the story is – this guy, decided he wanted to travel and see the world but he was stuck in the same old same old life, but he had an idea for a product, ran with his idea, got his product on an infomercial and was a millionaire a month later, and now works 4 hours a week getting paid $20,000 a month, and now travels all over the world, while living off what he terms an “automated income”. The book goes into a lot of detail (step by step stuff) about how he did what he did, how he downsized clutter and needless activities and replaced them with stuff that brought income while he was away from home. There’s a lot of great info to give you ideas to get started.

Now granted not everyone who follows his advice is going to become and over night millionaire, he had a product that got gobbled up by infomercial buyings and that did make everything else a lot easier for him, but still you can take the advice he gives and the “exercises” he outlines and apply them to any type of home or online business and still see results from it. I know this, because I tried it. I figured, well if he could do this, than I can do it too. I didn’t use a lot of the steps he wrote about, in fact, I didn’t use much of his advice at all! LOL!

But I was so inspired by the story of his success that I took his “muse theory” and ran with my own muse.

He says everyone has a muse and everyone can become successful if they find their muse and find a way to make money at it. This is the point that really inspired me. Most “Money Making” books I’ve read, they tell you “I did it THIS way and so you have to do it EXACTLY the same way I did.

Do the same steps, sell the same products, invest in the same stocks, whatever.” This guy though, he wasn’t saying “Create a product and sell it on TV, because that’s what I did”.

No, he was saying, “Look inside yourself, find your muse, find your passion, find the thing you are going to do in your life wither it makes money or not, and than find a way to make that passion bring in an income”. Well this just plain made sense to me, so I tried it.

Now I’ve wanted to be self employed in the past, you can figure that, or otherwise why would I have been reading this book right? Well, here’s the thing: Just getting minimum wage job is hard for me, and every time I mentioned starting a business people would laugh at me. See, I did not go to school. When people hear that they think I mean college. No. I have Autism. I DID NOT GO TO SCHOOL. *period* I went to Kindergarten – Grade 3. I was pulled out of school at age 8.

I have Autism = people don’t WANT to hire me. Jobs get passed on to some one who is “not retarded”. I never went to school = people don’t hire me thinking “she’s too stupid for school, than she’s too stupid for work.”

But anyways, that’s how I found this 4HWW book. I just sat down and read it. Took about 4 hours cover to cover. I didn’t get it out to read for the sake of implementing it. I had just reached that point of the Dewy Decimal System at the McAurther Library. This was a year after the flood. I had lost my home, my job, everything I owned. I read all of the “home business” books before and after 4HWW in the DDS and this one stood out to me as different. It was one of the few written by someone who was ACTUALLY LIVING what he was preaching. I decided to read it a few more times, really take in what it said. It struck a cord with me and I just kept rereading it, and started doing what it said to do.

I didn’t do the activities and such, in the 4HWW, because it was focusing on making money and making money has never been something I strive for. I find the topic of money and the pursuit of money quiet boring actually. Probably because I never learned math. Money requires math and counting and I can count enough to get by, I can do a little bit of addition and some subtraction, but the rest is lost on me. I find numbers incredibly confusing and pointless and money just plain annoying. It’s only paper. It means nothing to me. (I did not pass the math part of the GED, or the college tests, or the MENSA tests, they made me take, btw. Everything else I had a perfect score on.) So for me looking at the 4HWW is vastly different than, well, I guess every one else on this forum, because every one else seems to be driven to use the 4HWW to get more money and me I was driven to use it as a way to change my lifestyle, from one of confining work hours to the freedom to not have to work at all.

So, my advice to you, is find is YOUR muse.

Take it. Grab it.

Go with it.

Explore it.

Feast on it.

Run with it.

Don’t ask questions.

Don’t second guess yourself.

You want to write - WRITE!

You want to travel - TRAVEL!

No one is stopping you, but you.

Think about what you like doing and find a way to get paid to do it. Where there is a will there is a way. Learn all you can about your muse, than find a way to make money with it. You can do it. You will succeed, because it is the thing you WANT to do.

Basically what it all boils down to is YOU. Do what YOU want to do, when YOU want to do it, how YOU want it done. I know my advice is unconventional and probably not what you was looking for, but I am a big believer in self sufficiency and ingenuity and looking inside of yourself and finding your own unique way of getting things done. I’m not a follow the leader type person. I don’t follow instructions well, nor to give instructions to others well. What do, do well, is write the rules of my life and follow them in my own way.

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@eelkat 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? ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

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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.

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 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. If 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. If 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. If 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.

More information about the backhoe attack, my son's murder, my becoming crippled, my becoming homeless, and the FBI investigation around all of it, can be found here.

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My response to MUFON's Amphibious Aliens? My response to Coast to Coast AMs Arrival in my yard? Back to the Home Page Wendy Christine Allen, Old Orchard Beach's Autistic Author, Artist, Illustrator, & Art Car Designer Counting Down to the 2028 50th Anniversary of my first published book (September 23, 1978) Yes, I am aware there are a lot of spelling errors on this site. No, I likely will not be fixing most of them. I have been quadriplegia/paralyzed arms and legs since November 14, 2013; As of 2026, I have regained use of two fully functional fingers on my right hand, and only stiff limited movement of all remained eight fingers. This causes most of the typos and spelling errors as my near-dead pinky and ring fingers tend to drag over the other letters on the keyboard. Attempts to correct errors, often causes more errors for the same reason. Much of my writing is also speech to text, but I have "profound low functioning, non-verbal kanner's syndrome aka autism aka the rainman type" (that is what the medical diagnosis called it), I have the medically diagnosed retarded type of autism, that medical doctors mean when they say "real and actual autism", I do not have the cool trend self diagnoses tiktok type of "autism". What this means is, in spite of five decades of trying, I have very limited vocal speaking abilities and a lower then average vocabulary, that leaves my speaking ability around the level of a 4 or 5 year old child; I do not know math or money or clocks and. I also, was raised by a Shetland Scottish Grandmother (Helen Ricker Allen) until her death when I was 8 years old, and she did not speak American, she spoke Shetland/Scottish, Shetlandic, which is a Nordic language, different from Scotts Language, not related to Gaelic which is what many Scottish speak, and while classified as a type of Scottish English is is considered "Olde medieval Norse" dialect of Scottish English and spoken by fewer then two thousand people as of 2026. It is the language of Scottish Travelling Gypsies, which is what we racial are. I was 31 years old first time I ever heard American English, and only started to learn American English at 42 years old. Right now in 2026 at 51 years old, I am able to speak American English on around the level of an 8 year old child, and greatly do not understand over 90% of American words, American slang, and American media references. What this means is, OFTEN words you think are spellt wrong (like color vs colour, or traveling vs travelling, are in fact NOT spelt wrong, because I use Scottish spellings) and often when I hear an American word, I spell it phonetically because I do not know the correct American spelling. Likewise we Scottish do not have words like my or your, and so say me and you, in places where Americans would say my and your.  I also use Scottish word meanings, not American word meanings, for example Unicorn means a blood thirsty flesheating shapeshifting sea creature that comes on land and pretends to be a wounded horse to lure in humans to eat, it can only be captured by a virgin. But when I say Unicorn, a word I frequently use, because I write Unicorn folkloric short stories... I find that most Americans connect Unicorns to children's cartoons, gay pride, or swinging sex lives... I struggle to understand who in their right mind thought the most bloodthirsty monster of Scotland folklore was good fodder for children's cartoons or "sex positive" mascots, me thinks Americans need to brush up on the lore of Unicorns using their horns as sword to stabbed people's eyes out, while gallopping through swamps with rows of bloody Human heads hanging from their backs via braids made of Human entrails... really, why did Americans thinks a monster like a Unicorn was fit for children's cartoons or sex positivity? Americans is weird. All this to say... speech to text software, struggles badly with my thick Shetland accent, my slurred Autism speech impediment, and causes additional misspellings and typos because it can not figure out what words I am trying to say. And while I could take the time time to run all of it through a spell checker, that does require better hand mobility then I have, to copy the text from one program to the next and manually click each word, with finger mobility that I simply do not have, but also, most of my time is spent in trying to relearn to walk, and if you are local, you've probably seen this as I'm a stubborn bitch who refused to accept the doctor disnosis that I will never walk again, so, I walk around the block every day pushing my wheelchair, refusing to sit in my wheelchair, and... ...it's taking me 13 years to do it, but, I'm not actually able to stand up and make it all the way around the block now, and my focus on trying to relearn to walk is far more important to me, then catering to your pampered arse by fixing spelling errors, when there are far bigger problems to worry about in life, the spelling errors made by a quadriplegic who is typing this with her only two functioning fingers. Also, in recent years, I've watched the internet devolve into a mindless clusterfuck of ChatGPT written everything. Everyone sounds the same online these days, because no writes their own work anymore. Every website out there has become a carbon copy of each other, because they are all be written by ChatGPT now. I think ChatGPT makes a funny thing to chat with in your spare time, so you can laugh at the hilarity of how inaccurate it's responses are... but I am horrified that people are using AI for serious writing, writing they publish and try to pass off as their own. We live in a society where people people are forgetting how write. Heck I can read and write cursive, calligraphy, italic, short hand, and editor's marks, also edit my books by hand diagraming every sentence, and that... start walking around your neighbourhood and ask anyone under 30 if they sentence diagraming IS, let alone how to do it. So yes, I CAN spell check, and no I don't, for anything but my novels and short story collections, I spell check when it matters... and this is a website, not a printed book... but also, I am just getting so damn fucking fed up with endless AI writing online, so, no, I'm not going to fix errors and typos on my website, and you can bitch about that all you want (yes, I do get your messages, I just don't answer anyone in private) but, honey, maybe instead of bitching over my spelling errors, be thankful is still at least one website on the internet that still being written by a Human now in 2026 when ChatGPT writes over 70% of all posts online.

Looking for my annual NaNoWriMo Prompts and Dares? I've been publishing these every year since 2004! Here's,for my 26th year, a shit ton load of daily writing prompts and writing dares to use for National Novel Writing Month, 2025 edition! The Park Bench Method of Writing The Adventures of Quaraun The Insane: Paperpacks & Hardcover Editions on Amazon: Not sure what the series is about?  Check out  The Quaraun Series Prologue and Faeries vs Elves (In The Quaraun Series) A Pink Necromancer World Lore Post and Worldbuilding MoonQuakes and Disabled Characters for Fantasy Writers and How well do I know Quaraun? - Let's find out! to find out more about the plot and lore of the series. Not sure which story to start with? These here are good places to start, to get a good introduction to the three main characters: Absinthe Slushies: An Ode to Frozen Green Fairy Wine Bone Dice BoomFuzzy's Chowder Dilemma The Cellar's Forgotten Treasure Chaos in The Lighthouse - Shattered Panes, Shattered Minds The Cliff-Side Temple Control or Protection? A Dark and Stormy Night Drying Herbs Excited For The New Baby Five Ways To Save Money in Las Vegas The Golden Dragon Keys Herons in the Dunes If your ass ain’t freezing or your brains ain’t scrambled, you’re ain’t really trying Kiss Me Fuckin' Arse - Just Another Day in the Ice-Laced Ruins of The GodForsaken City Lens and Light Maintenance Macaroni and Cheese: A Creamy Pasta Dish Drenched in Melted Cheese, Often Topped with Breadcrumbs- It's Never That Easy A Map Worth More Than Gold The Morning After a Night of Teaching Wizards To Gather Magic With Cards Necromancer of the Parched Sands in the Desert of Diona Necromancy-A Day in the Life of a Bumbling Necromancer-Again Nightmare Nook Paddlewheel Maintenance The Phooka's Dragon School The Red Hakama Springtime by the River Spirit-Walk Slippers Sticky Rice, Bare Fingers, and Slippery Chopsticks The Sweet and Sour of Lemons The Terror Bird 3 Perspectives on an Apple The Valuable Mystery of the Talking Saloon Door and How We Nearly Got Shot Over Stale Tacos Vendetta over Vittles A Very Important Clump of Grass Wagers and Wiles in the Godforsaken City The Washer Woman & The Fae Weather Forecasting Stones You Never Know What Info You Might Pick Up in the Afterlife aka Quaraun's Near Death Experience (A NDE Fiction) Or if after reading those, you still are looking for more free to read stories, there are over three thousand of them on this site, too many to list here, but here a few dozen to get you started... ...you can just jump in and try reading some of the free to read online stories first before committing to buying the books: Abyssal Addlepated: Stupid and Confused All the roads are gone Alone Ancient Coin Hoard Unearthed Angry Ocean Waves at Sunset The Arrival The Art of Destroying a Human Village for Fun and Profit At the High Priest's Altar Back At The Tavern and Still No Shrimp The Bandits and the Pink Necromancer The Banshee Sisters: Bean-Nighe and Ben-Neeyah In the Swamp of Death The Beacon Room at the Top of the Black Tower Lighthouse The Beauty of a Silk Moth Hatching The Beginning of the End Bellicose: Warlike! Aggressive! Hostile! Beneath a crimson sky, the silk weaver wove pink silk. Beneath Malevolent Stars The Black Sock, Again Blizzard The Boat Fiasco The Book Burning Maggots, a You Can't Spell Hatred Without Red Hats BoomFuzzy's Gingerbread House from Hell The Brownies & The Witch, or Why Faeries Don’t Wear Socks The Bumbling Pursuit of The Pink Necromancer Candied Nightmares The Candle Con in Ember Hollow The Candy Corn Unicorn Captured By The Lich Lord The Cast Iron Frying Pan Cattail Pollen Spaghetti with Wild "Oregano" A Chilly Light Drizzle Becomes Snowfall on the Shore Chocolate Bliss Chocolate in the Neon Shadows Christmas in 40th Century Dystopia Christmas With The Krampus Family The City of Death Clam Digging in the Rain The Clock Ticks Away Clotheslines, Games, and the Village Code Ghosts Comet Fall Snow Day Blitz Conundrum in the Bazaar Corsets, Elves, and Undead Faeries Crabapples in the Rain Cranberry Muffins The Crooked Dice The Crows Are Restless Crullers and Curses at Midnight The Curse of the Liquid Gold The Cursed Mirror Dangerous Tides {A Pink Necromancer Drabble Dozen, featuring Etiole} Dark Damp Basement A Day At Witch Pond & Fleeing To The Forest Deadly Shores of Noodle Beach The Demon Cultists and The Coming of The Darkness The Demonic Music Box Desolate Nostalgia on a Frozen Shoreline The Diamond Forest in the Bio Dome The Disbelief of Humans Discovering A Floating Castle Dismal Day at the Street Market The Doors' Dark Secret - A Wedding In A Zombie Apocalypse Dreams of Purple Pearls The Drunk Moon Elf Echoes of the Glass Forest Echoes of the Unseen An Eclipse in the Faerie Glen An Eclipse Looms Tonight An Eerie Discovery Eerie Symbols in the Snow The Egg That Was Not an Egg The Elf With Crippled Hands Ember Enable The Enchanted Map Encountering ghostly apparitions in the swamp Evil Eggplants Stalking Outside Evil McEvil of The Twirly Moustache Existential Crisis Perspectives - 3 Perspectives on an Existential Crisis Exploring the Swamp's Forgotten River A Fall in the River A Field of Poppies On The Road To Witch Pond 15 Drabbles About Being Transgender The First Flicker of Dawn Fishing in the Rain Five Ways To Save Money in Las Vegas Fizzy and Frigid A Flapdoodle Wizard’s Duel Fleeced for Fizz Fog & Peach Melba Toast After Last Night's Rain Footprints In The Sand Forest Kings and Their Antler Crowns The Fragrant Smoke of Flavoured Herbs Freshly Baked Sugar Cookies The Frilly Nest of Panic A Garden of Pink Chrysanthemums Get your hands off my dress! GhoulSpawn & The Cultists GhoulSpawn Said The Moon Don’t Laugh GhoulSpawn's Toasted Marshmallow Magic A Glass of Fresh Milk Gloom Blob of Doom: The Dreadful Dripping of the Doom Blob of Gloom Glumpish, Grumpy, Sullen, Gloomy Golden Field, Pink Glories The Golden Mask The Graveyard That Ate the Living The Great UnSeelie Court Swindlers He Always Comes Back Heirloom Tomatoes Help! He's trying to feed me! The Herd Approaches The Howl on Silent Moor How to Create a Literary Empire with Just Your Bum Poems How To Kill a Lich How to Hijack a Human Supply Train Without Getting Shot How to Overthrow an Entire Settlement Without So Much as Lifting a Finger I Need To Feel Safe Ignoramus — An Utterly Ignorant Crowd of Humans IkuTursu's Cursed Depths of the Swamp Where Pine Boughs Whisper Incandescent Shadows Over Driftwood Bay The Infected Survivor Inner Fortitude Insidious Love Invigorating Cool Air Iron Hooves and Burning Roads, Krampus on Wheels The Ivory Tower of Greed The Jar of Pickled Toes Jibber Jabber Ramblings by the Fire The Jolly Red Lich King Journey Through the Zombie-Infested Swamp on the Blue Monkey Judgement An Ode To The Lunatics Preaching The Rapture of September'25 Kelim and The Necromancer: Finding Finderu Kelim Meets Quaraun The Insane Lanterns Over the Faerie Glen Leaving Your Bed Messy Isn't Exactly the Apocalypse The Leprechaun of The Deep North A Lich's Lament For a Mortal Lover Growing Old A Lich's Reflections On Escaping The Swamp of Death The Lich's True Form Revealed The Lighthouse’s Glass-Eyed Horror The Lighthouse Keeper The Lighthouse That Leapt, Space Dock 13's First Jump Through Space The Long Road The Loot Tree Lord of the Hive Lost In The Forest of No Return-Trying To Find Directions The Lost Library and The Snowglobe The Lotus' Silent Prayer on the Sandy Shoreline Lover's Triangle Make tea and go for a rainy forest walk Maple Cotton Candy Served as a Topping on Vanilla Ice Cream A Market Day Disaster Market Day Weekend - Three Days In The Life of The Pink Necromancer Marsh Serenity Reflection Mayonnaise Meeting Mallac Melt, Ya Safe With Me The MerMan's Wrath Milkweed Meadow Mint, Madness, and Motor Parts The Mischief of the Purple Unicorn Misplaced Utensils and the Cascade of Confusion Monsters & Mayhem: How Black Tower Became Pink (8+ Parts) The Moon and The Drowned The Moon Goddess Laughs From The Rooftops The Moon That Hungers The Moon and The Mirror Morning Sickness at The Shattered Stein (TW: MPreg Yaoi) A Mysterious Door No Goldfish, Today? No Place for Birth The Noodle of Power Not Little Red Riding Hood Obsessive Love-Dangerous Love An Ode to My Shattered Sanity Ominous One River In Three Perspectives Open Grave An Ordinary Day A Path of Twisted Trees A Peaceful Night on the Tundra The Peaceful Shores of Noodle Beach Phantom Tides Pickling Perfection Pickles, Panic, & Permafrost The Picnic Pink Marabou Trimmed Rainbow Leg Warmers, a Purple Feathered Black Leather Codpiece, and an Emerald Green Overly Fluffy Scarf The Pink Necromancer's Deceitful Carpet Weave Pink Sheep, Cheesy Burritos, and The Grim Reality of Zombies Pliable Clay on the Potter's Wheel Pocket Lich Unleashed: Quaraun Murders Finderu Preparations for the Street Market of the GodForsaken City Psychotic Dead Things Quaraun's Beauty Makeovers Quaraun's Candle Business Quaraun's Irritable Day Quaraun and The Wandering Turtle City Quarreling Over the Last Slice of Pizza A Quiet Day on The Blue Monkey The Quiet Evening in the Pink Silk Tent A Quiet Evening In The Rain A Quiet Night on The River A Quiet Place To Sweep A Quiet, Relaxing Foot Rub The Rain-Drenched Alley Raining Cats & Dogs Readers vs Readers, What Really Makes a Reader, a Reader? Remove! The Return of ZooLock The River Boat Man-Woman The Sacred Pink Secret (TW: Mpreg Yaoi) Safety and Emergency System Activated. Please Being Calm Santa's Floating Dead Body Santa's Letter To Satan The Screaming Contest The Seagull Sea Slugs and Clam Chowder Bread Bowls Secret Meeting Hidden Behind Closed Doors Shadows on the Clam Flats Shipyard at Dusk The Silence of the Unseen Silks in the Snow The Singing Crabgrass Crabs — A Green Fairy Wine Tale A Sinister-Looking Stone Well Six Days Earlier The Snake's Prophecy of Doom Upon The Fractured Moon A Solitary Black Sock Spinning Dreams in Silk The Soul Eater Spacious Space Spooky Scary Skeletons - A Graveyard Waltz Stillness in the Garden's Chaos Stone Cakes for the Road Survival Preppers Of The Zombie Apocalypse The Swamp of Death The Tavern in the Faraway Town The Temple City of The Green Goddess, Where Every Street Has a Name The Terrifying Cliffs of Noodle Beach, featuring Etiole That Afternoon When Quaraun Got Stuck In a Crab Trap That Big Bad Darkness in His Heart A Threatening Letter Too Busy Cooking Lemon Tarts Toobe's Well-Prompted Apocalypse (A ChatBot Plans Global Domination) The Trade Caravan A Tumble In The River The Vacuous Tavern Fool Waiter, There's A Head In My Soup Wandering Merchant: The Trader’s Cryptic Goods (Part 2 of ShipYard At Dusk) What I Wish I Knew Before Not Becoming an Astrophysicist When a Government Tries to Cover Its Crimes Why the Sea is Salt A Winter Wizard Wishing For Lobster Rolls-Never Make Wishes In The Presence of Wizards WORMS! Wrath of the Sacred Pink JellyFish Yelling at the Snowstorm You've Only Known Our World Through The Eyes of a Madman You trust that nonsense over a map? Zombies Are Not the Worst Thing Here {TW: Love fucking wins} Zwodder: A Drowsy Stupid State of Mind Hmmm... soooo... I was making the above list to ALL the links to EVERY Quaraun story published on my website here, and adding it into the footer of my site, here as you can see, which loads on every page, and then I realized... wait... there are over two thousand Pink Necromancer stories up free to read on my website, I can't put two thousand links on every single page! Whoops! LOL! So, now I'm putting list to ALL the links to EVERY Quaraun story published on my website here on this page instead and just link that page to the footer instead. But also I'll just leave some of the links in the footer, as you can see above. FacebookXPinterestTumblrRedditWhatsApp ShareFacebookXPinterestTumblrRedditWhatsApp The Park Bench Method of Writing

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If anyone contacts you saying 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, is for sale, know that they are lying to you... it is my land, and it has been in my family since 1531... and the ONLY person whom has EVER gone around saying it is for sale, is a woman who the FBI believes to be the same woman who murdered my son.

My son is buried here, and the FBI believes she is trying to buy my land in order to destroy his grave and destroy evidence of his murder.

Since my son's murder November 14, 2013, every year dozens of real estate agent show up all with a story of a female developer who is offering them MILLIONS of dollars for my lot of land that is only 1/4 of an acre and is not big enough to develop.

When shown police sketches of my son's murderer, the real estate agents say "Yes, that's the woman who hired me to buy 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine", but then the woman disappears and the real estate agents never hear from her again... all contact information she gave them turns out to be fake.

The woman who murdered my son, is DESPERATELY trying to buy 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine... this is the woman to watch out for... and this is what she did:

Looking to find out more about my son's murder, that information is on these pages:

• How did the FBI get involved?

• Never Forget my son was murdered

• Do you know who this woman is? And no 146 Portland Ave is not for sale.

• Thoughts on Reborn Therapy Dolls After My Son's Murder

Answering the questions:
Can you give me links to the news reports of your son's murder? 
and
Why can't I find any news reports about this?

Maine has well over a thousand murder cases that have never been in the news.

I found this out after my son was murdered November 2013, and a year later I found out it had never been in the news, even though I was hounded for weeks by news people. I went to each of the over a dozen TV stations and newspapers whom had showed up at the hospital and asked why they had never published any report after all the trouble they had gone through to (in some cases illegally) het into the hospital to interview me.

in every case they said some version of "well, it just wasn't news worthy, there was nothing we could use to get views". Really? These were big news stations, channel 13, 6, 8, Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily...

What exactly was it they claimed was "not news worthy"?

I'll tell you.

On November 14, 2013, my son was murdered. At Southern Maine Community College in the parking lot of The Buglight Art Studio beside the Spring Point Lighthouse.

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.

Oh yeah, and I've been quadriplegic for 13 years.

oh yeah one more thing, same trio, they also found out where i lived in Old Orchard Beach and drove a backhoe over my house as well.

146 Portland Ave Old Orchard Beach, Maine... July 4, 2013 vs August 8, 2013

I have been homeless and quadriplegic for 13 years, and right now it's just a few weeks away from both my son's 14th birthday and the 14th anniversary of the day he was murdered, both of which happened the same day.

Explain to me what about any of that is "not newsworthy"?

I did find out WHY it was deemed not newsworthy. "it would negatively impact tourism" was their reason. The College at Fort Prebble is a tourist destination. The lighthouse at the college is a tourist destination. My house on Portland ave is situated on the primary road to the beach that is a tourist destination.

The news reporters explained to me that, they risked losing their jobs if they publicised "negative news" occurring in these sorts of tourist destination spots.

My son's murder wasn't in the news, because it might cause tourists to stop visiting that lighthouse. That was the reason the reporters gave me.

How often are there things not being reported on just so businesses don't lose tourist money?

How often does this happen? A lot, I've since found out. In trying to find other mothers of murdered children to interact with... I found five others JUST in Old Orchard Beach, whom the murders were not in the news, and all of them happened after my son's murder. I found 2 such mothers in Scarbourogh, their children's murders not in the news. I found over a dozen more in the Bar Harbore area, also all not in the news.

It's a very disturbing trend here in Maine, one that I never would have found out about had my own son not been murdered.

One thing's very clear: in Maine you can get away with murdering a child, if you do it in a big tourist location, because news stations REFUSE to report any crime occurring in tourist locations.

Fuck torists.

I don't give a shit about your precious tourist money.

My son was murdered and I want his killer found... and I am VERY displeased with the deplorable way news stations try to bury child murders in Maine, just to appease tourist funded businesses.

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