November 14, 2023 will be the 10 year anniversary of the November 14, 2013 murder of my 8 month old infant son, at BugLight Lighthouse Art Studio of Southern Maine Community College in South Portland, Maine. If you have any information about who his killer is, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207-774-9322
My Son Was Murdered, The Killer Walks Free, Your Child Could Be Next!
FAQ: What are the most visited pages on this website and how many visits do they get?
Several years ago, I wrote an article on how to write different types of magic uses, or rather how I personally write various types of magic users within the context of my Quaraun books. Today that page is one of my top ten most visited articles. It gets 50 to 500 views/reads/hits/visits per day depending on the time of the years and has had over 200k visits total since it was published.
Amphibious Aliens: Debunking The Atwater Family's Alien Abduction Hoax with more then 30MILLION reads since 2007 and The GoldenEagle: Debunking Stephen King's World's Most Haunted Car Hoax with over tenMILLION reads since 2007 still rank as the two most visited articles on my website, but, neither of those are writing related.
Writing Medieval Servants is my most visited writing related article with over 7MILLION reads.
This website was started in 1996 and has 1 to 3 new articles (all written by me, I am the only writer on this site) published almost daily. In 2017 we crossed ten thousand articles published. As of 2023, EACH article gets MINIMUM 10 to 70 reads PER DAY, with the high traffic articles getting 500+ reads per day.
And since December 2019, my website now gets three hundred thousand to 7 million reads per month - well over ONE HUNDRED MILLION PAGE READS PER YEAR, making it not only the single most trafficked site in the State of Maine, but also one of the most visited websites in ALL OF NEW ENGLAND!
{{{HUGS}}} Thank you to all my readers for making this possible!
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I am answering random questions today about world building, over on Reddit and decided to take my answers from there and expand upon them even further over here. So that's what this page is. Me rambling on about various aspects of world building techniques I use when writing the Quaraun series. The questions I am answering are embedded here. Clicking the link in the embedded question will take you to the original Reddit page where you can see the original answer along with other people's answers. If you wish to comment, you can do so on the Reddit page where a place to do so is provided.
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What do you want to become?
What did you do today to step closer to that goal?
Whatever you do, be your best at it!
And remember to have yourself a great and wonderfully glorious day!
~EK
EelKat.com
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Evil men go out of their way to try to drive a person to suicide.
Are you an evil man?
Are you sure you're not?
How many people have YOUR hate filled words killed?
Next time you go to do a mean thing to a fellow human, stop and really think about the consequences of your actions.
Did you ever notice how every one has a story to tell about me, yet not one of them ever speaks the truth?
What lies has YOUR gossiping tongue spread about me?
Did you know...
October 16, 2006, bomb blew up my house because of YOUR lies.
August 8, 2013, the house which replaced the one the bomb blew up, was driven over by a backhoe.
November 14, 2013, my 8 month old infant son was murdered because of your lies.
November 14, 2013, I was beaten up, paralized for 5 months, spent 18 weeks relearning to walk, I'm now crippled for the rest of my life, because of YOUR lies.
Are you proud of what you have done?
Enjoy your eternity in Hell. You earned it. You've certainly worked hard for it.
~EelKat
If you have any information about any of these events, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207-774-9322
My degree is in Fashion History, Theatrical Costume Making, Dressmaking & Design.
Has it effected my world building? You bet it has. LOL!
While my populations have crappyily designed governments and poorly thought out military, at least they can boast to being the best dressed societies out there.
The world is set in a long running series of novels and short stories that I've written for a couple of decades now, so I've had quite some time to really build up the world history and create this massive world. Ironically very little of the world itself ever makes it into the books, but, that never stopped me from spend hours charting out the world anyways.
But the thing of it is, you have a main character who is vain and narcissistic and has a serious obsession with clothes. He's also on the run from the law, so can never stay in any one place for long and ends up, over the course of the series, traveling all over the entire world. Now you'd think someone who is getting to experience every culture on the planet would look at the art, the food, the family traditions, the religion, the politics, something most people would look at, right? Not him. Nope. He's at every market looking for new fabric, arguing with officials over button laws (it's medieval time period when laws existed over who could wear buttons and when and how many), checking out fashion plates....
And so, while I know very little about the governments of the world I built, I can tell what every culture wears and why and can tell you the difference between dagged sleeves and bell sleeves, hakama vs kilts (yes, there is an entire argument in one scene where two characters are arguing the differences of hakama and kilts.
Every time he entrees a scene, you get a full blown description of what he's wearing, all the details from the type of silk worms used for this type of silk, what they feed the worms, how the fabric was dyed, techniques used to embroider it.
Yes, vast descriptions (usually in the dialogue conversation, not in the narrative) of textile shops, market booths, and mechentiles and him haggling prices.
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However...
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Quaraun's not travelling alone. He's traveling with King Gwallmaiic/BoomFuzzy the Unicorn, a man who is a master chef (think Gordon Ramsey with and even bigger ego). And so, while he's out checking of the latest fabrics, his companion is in and out of every bar, pub, tavern, inn, bakery, and food market obsessing over food and taking over kitchens, yelling at every one for not cooking right, throwing food across the room... did I mention Gordon Ramsey with a bigger ego?
Well, in the novels you end up seeing actual recipes... the real deal, if you o what he does in the books, you really will end up with the actual food he cooked.
And so, in addition to knowing the fashion cultures of every region of my world, I also know the food cultures of every region of my world.
This character likes to go into monologue while telling people the correct and proper way to bake cakes, braise zucchini, stew rabbits, dip chocolates, curdle milk, shuck clams, boil lobster, roll pie crust, toss pizzas, pickle cucumbers (there's an entire novel in the series devoted to his obsession with finding the perfect pickle and their travels to different parts of the world to study how different cultures pickle their pickle... it devolves into dick jokes, but, whatever.)
Want to guess what my 2nd degree would have been had I finished it?
Culinary Arts.
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not a degree, but a hobby... I grow roses, so guess what else the main character obsesses over... roses, flower arranging, flowers in general... resulting in, again, while the regions in my world have governments tossed in with no thought at all, they have well thought out botanical gardens, that I not only described in detail, but in planning them out, I drew up tons of landscaping charts detailing where each plant was to be planted, and charts of all the growing seasons, climate zones, ph requirements, etc, to make sure that each plant actually could grow in the region in question where I placed it in the novel.
So, basically, no matter where my characters go in their world, the reader knows whatever one wears and why, what every one eats and how it's made, and what flowers are in front of every building they walk by.
And I just realized they all being with F: fashion, food, and flowers. Those are the three things my world is based around, I do most of my world building by starting with one of those 3 things and then building a culture around it, then building the region around the culture, because cultures evolve from the region they live in so I then try to determine what about their world caused them to wear this, eat that, and grow those flowers.
:P
I am wondering why has Amazon moved the Quaraun books to the category "Transgender Romance" and also "Gay Erotica"? The base story is a deeply depressed, suicidal, drug addict Elf who's lover commit suicide and he's trying not to do the same. It's an old Elf in a tavern, monologuing a lot of flashbacks and back story scenes of his youth. These stories are dark, bloody, angsty, full of drug use, murder, rape, Medieval torture, mental/physical/emotional abuse, and references to depression and suicide - no romance in it, unless you count the occasional (and usually brutally violent) rape scenes that show up in nearly every volume - sorry - no clue what Amazon is thinking or why they moved these to Romance and Erotica, but these books are NOT even close to being Romance or Erotica on any level at all. When I published these books I put them in "Dark Fantasy" and "Yaoi". If they show up in any category other then "Dark Fantasy" and "Yaoi", it's because Amazon put them there without my authorization or approval.
~EelKat
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The 4 door white truck continues to sit at the end of my drive way (146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine) near every night around sunset, reeving it's engine and squealing it's tires, with the driver yelling anti-gay threats and obscenities out the window. He continues to do the same thing at my dad's apartment building (Biddeford Maine) a few times a week, usually in mid to late afternoon time. He continues to follow me to shopping to various stores in various towns throughout the states.
Phrases he yells from the truck include:
"Kill or be killed remember Saco Shaws all transsexuals are alike"
"I keep a gun under the seat of my truck, I'm gonna use it to shoot you in the head, you transvestite freak"
if cars are going by he yells to them: "that thing is Ken's son, look at how's it's dressed; it's insane, it has autism, we can't allow that thing and it's gay cars in our family friend town of Old Orchard Beach"
He often babbles deranged ramblings about something he calls "the gay-pocalypse", raving lunacy about how "all the gays are gathering" on his doorstep. He raves some crazy nonsense about how Armageddon is coming and the war to end all wars will be "the gays against the Christians" and Christians have to be ready to "kill the gays"
My car is the Autism Awareness Car and had 2.5million marbles glued to it (I have Autism - savant - Kanner's syndrome) he claims tat my car "is gay" because of what it looks like. My car has been vandalized several dozen times, including to have the tires slashed 7 times in 6 months.
After dark often around 10PM, he stands at the end of the logging road across the street from me and shoots at my motohome (in February 2014 he shot holes in my neighbour's barn while doing this). I have video footage of 3 of his shootings at me here: https://youtu.be/NUebzJ9sz9U and here: https://youtu.be/C4dZbgG-Smw
This has gone on since August 2013 now, in addition to all the vandalism, hate crimes, pet beheadings, etc that has happened, including the bomb that blew up our house in 2006.
As you know, that whole time I had not been able to get a plate number on the truck. He as just here again, and I just realized why I could not get a plate number... there are no plates on the truck, either on the front or on the back. However, as he was driving away today... I noticed, there is a plate, stuck up in the back window of the truck, where it can barely be seen, deliberately obscured from view behind a silver tool box.
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