People Who Don't Write Giving Bad Writing Advice

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

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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

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

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

The thing that always gets me, is when a bunch of unpublished writers are giving very BAD advice, and a published author who knows better, comes along and points out that the advice being given won't work because of whatever, and then they give actual examples of what worked vs what didn't... and the whole kit and kaboodle of unpubbed writers attack the published author, because in their own words "you're just showing off that you got published and we didn't" :(

I can never understand the need for those who don't know how to do a thing, to parrot bad advice they overheard said by others who also don't know how to do it, but you seem to find this sort of attitude in any topic, not just writing. Go to fish forums, and you find people who never raised a beta, giving advice on how to raise a beta, simply because they overheard someone else say the thing... in that case, the advice is often so bad that it will actually cause the fish's death too. But then when an actual beta breeder comes in and says: "No, that's wrong it'll kill this fish, don't do that, do this" all of a sudden the betta breeder gets gained up on attacked by the people giving the bad advice.

Do any of you read r/pubtips ? Last week a guy asked for advice on finding an agent... and an actual agent, came on and answered him, told him how she looks for authors to represent, and she got attacked! By people who were not agents and did not have agents!

Over on the BDSM subs, you constantly see users giving "joke" advice on EXTREMELY dangerous things to try --- things that could actually kill people. Then when people who live the lifestyle point out: "No that's dangerous because of...." The fako BDSMers attack them by saying "No, I know you can do this because I read it in 50 Shades of Grey". Do these people not know the difference between reality and fiction?

Yes, I started reading those because I'm trying to figure out why people were calling me a BDSM dominatrix. You know, the people who call me that, I don't think they actually know what BDSM is.

I don't think it matters what topic it is. I think you are going to find this sort of thing happen in every career.

It's like the get-rich-quick books that are written by people hoping to get rich from writing get-rich-quick books. LOL!

I don't know... I just see this sort of "know-it-alls who know nothing" giving bad advice, and then ganging up on "professionals in the career" who actually give the correct advice.

I just don't understand why it happens.

I don't understand why people who know nothing of a topic try to give advice on it. They are bold faced liars, and I can't understand what type of mentality would see nothing wrong with telling a lie.

And I don't understand why when someone who actually knows the answer, comes along and answers, why the fakers gang up on them. I can't understand this sort of anger filled mentality either.

I just find it so weird. It's this weird herd mentality thing that I just can not wrap my mind around at all.

That said...

I find that most people seem to be giving advice based on personal experiences of stuff that they tried that either worked or didn't work for them and are not so much giving advice so much as just sharing their personal experiences in the topic at hand. The people willfully giving bad advice seem to be in the minority, and while every topic has them, they are not the majority.

Normally, I answer a question like this, simply giving an answer.

However, I had errands to run, so left the computer with this question open. I came back a few hours later to find it had 140 comments, about half of then written by the OP in response to the replies.

Ouch!

Snark feast supreme.

The OP is troll. Big time.

I've since gone to the OPs profile and checked out their older posts and comments.

The OP has a history of starting "controversial" threads, then lashing out viciously at commenters.

Knowing this, changes my perspective on the WHY behind why the OP asked these questions, and has resulted in my analyzing the OPs questions in a new light. Thus the answers I write now are vastly different then what I would have written, had I not known the OP was a troll.

>>Because when I read the books I like, books that are most definitely not badly written or even that old for that matter they show this online advice up as nothing but coming from people who don't know what they're saying.

You know, for someone complaining about grammar, your grammar is horrific. I can not make heads or tails of what this line is trying to say.

In fact, it's not just this one line... there are so many grammar errors, punctuation errors, spelling errors, and errors in basic writing comprehension (writing clearly so that readers can understand what you are trying to say) that I'd guess you are very young, still struggling through high school, and have not yet learned most of the basic grammar rules.

I checked your posting history to see if this was a one post issue caused by heated ranting, or, if this was a common problem you have consistently... it's a problem you have consistently.

It required my taking your post and running it through an editing software program, then breaking it up and putting it back together, for me to finally make sense of what you were trying to say.

It appears American English is your first language, so, yeah for more failure on the part of the American school system. Double yay for that old American arrogance to go with it.

I have to ask... why is it that the people with the most arrogance, in regards to grammar, also have the worst grammar?

You read books you like. Fine. Doesn't everybody?

The books you read are not badly written. Are you sure? With your grammar as bad as it is, I doubt you could tell.

>>-Don't ever use exposition ever, or labeling any information given about the past as exposition that is irrellevant to a good story. I've seen people put off by a paragraph that details why a character is feeling a certain way due to an event hat happened in their past. It's as if you can't make use of what literature is good for, that of giving short, brief snippets of information on the past without breaking the present action by going through a flashback.go

I've never seen anyone say to not use exposition. 

This is rather odd advice. Exposition is a normal part of writing. 

You see exposition in dialogue, in descriptions, in setting, in narrative... it's difficult to write story without using exposition.

In fact exposition is nothing more than an alternative word for narrative.

Exposition (narrative) - Wikipedia

Google exposition advice articles and you get:

1. 25 Ways To Make Exposition Your Bitch
2. 6 Ways to write an effective Exposition
3. What is exposition?
4. Meet the Reader: Exposition Gone Bad
5. EXPOSITION – Show Don’t Tell: Handling
6. Rachel Simon | Writer's Writing Guide | Exposition
7. Description vs. Exposition
8. 3 Things to Know About Exposition & Telling
9. Exposition va. Narrative
10. How to Make Exposition Less Boring
11. 3 Literary Techniques, Part One: Exposition

Those are the top results. I have just returned from reading all 11 of them. Not one of them... not even ONE of them, say to not use exposition.

I used the search term: "Don't use exposition".

I'm not sure where you are finding the advice, written in articles, by published authors, telling people to not use exposition.

I could understand if you were saying, ill informed, unpublished members of Reddit were saying this, sure, but that's not what you said. You specifically state that it's online articles written by published authors, that you are referring to.

>>-Always citing the same two/three/fifty books for writing advice. It's always JK Rowling/George RR Martin/Neil Gaiman... actually, I can't recall any other authors who are cited as frequently. It's as if these articles aren't aimed for writers trying to better their craft but for absolute noobs who decided to write a book after waking up that morning.

I'd like to comment on one part of this in particular:

>>It's as if these articles aren't aimed for writers trying to better their craft but for absolute noobs who decided to write a book after waking up that morning.

Yes. 

If you ever paid attention to articles written by authors online... you'd notice more often than not, the author is answering a question sent to them by a reader.

In most cases, the person asking the question, is in fact, absolute noobs who decided to write a book after waking up that morning, and often the question asker admits as much, saying they've never written anything before.

Like this article here, the author is answering a SPECIFIC question, asked by a SPECIFIC person, within a SPECIFIC situation.

In fact, I've just come back from reading the last several pages of your comment and posts across Reddit and you know what I found out?

I found posts made in the past week, stating that you are not only unpublished, but that YOU yourself have only taken up writing in the past few weeks. YOU, openly admitted in multiple posts elsewhere, that YOU are as you have put it here:

An absolute noob who decided to write a book after waking up this morning.

I find that fascinating, especially since you've attempted in your thread you started here, to pass yourself off as an established author.

Had I answered this post an hour ago, before seeing your many, many, many comments to the replies, I would have assumed you to be an actual author, upset about non-authors giving bad advice.

The irrony here is that you yourself are a non-author giving bad advice.

The blind leading the blind, and you, the hypocrite leading them into the ditch.

>>And whilst I can't call them bad books by any means, it's rare for this subreddit to have someone hold up an obscure, not that well known author or book, or to call a work their absolute favorite due to personal reasons. A book is someone's favorite because it made them feel smarter, it made them learn some vague truth about life or some other crap. But it's never because it made them learn something about themselves, how they can improve themselves or how awful we truly are as people.

I read this sub daily.

I rarely miss reading any thread on it. I refresh the new tab about every 15 minutes. And have done so since 2008. I even see the posts that mods delete before the mods delete them, that's how often I refresh the page.

I'm wondering how it is that I have missed so many threads.

Where are these posts you see so often? How have I not seen them?

I've seen posters gush fan-girl love for a book because they loved a character.

I've never seen anyone say a book made them feel smarter. That's a rather arrogant thing to say actually. Hmmm.... speaking of arrogance, I see that in your recent past YOU said you liked a book because it made you feel smarter.

Huh.

It's fascinating reading your older posts and comparing them to this thread. It appears you are mad at... yourself?

>>-Most of the advice I see being asked on or given here concerns plot and story, but very rarely prose. And even then it's all about the banal stuff like what word ought to be used instead of this one.

I'm confused as to what your issue is here.

If someone is having trouble with their plot, it is only natural for them to ask for help. What's wrong with that? They need help. They come here. They ask their question.

If they are not asking about prose, that's probably because they are not stuck on prose and don't feel they need help with it.

Why do you not yourself ask questions about prose, if that is the thing you need help with?

If YOU need help with prose, do the same thing you did here, and start a thread to ask. It's as simply as that.

If you can not find someone asking the problem you have, just start a new thread and ask it yourself.

Starting a thread like this to bitchfest at people for not asking about info YOU need help with, is just plain stupid.

You are actually acting very childish here.

>>Or people are asking the wrong questions; instead of of asking 'How do I write a mentally disturbed person', ask instead 'What are some great books/stories/passages that show a disturbed person's thought process?' 

You are angry because people are asking for advice, they need for their book, because you need different advice for your book?

A person looking to research mental illness so that they can write a mentally ill character better, is NOT looking for quotes from other books. 

They are looking for people with mental illnesses to help them understand what it is like to live with a mental illness.

Perhaps you should try researching mental illnesses yourself, maybe it'll help you diagnose yourself, seeing how you are displaying some seriously hostile mental illness symptoms here.

>>I'd like to see more people citing more passages and examples from a more diverse range of books.

Is there some reason that YOU are not citing more passages and examples from a more diverse range of books?

Again, reading your backlog of posts here and this is not something you yourself do, so why are you expecting others to do it?

Most people have a heard mentality, meaning if someone starts doing something, others soon follow and do it with them.

If you want people to be citing more passages and examples from a more diverse range of books, perhaps you should set the example by doing it yourself.

>>-Any and all advice that says you shouldn't write about sensitive topics or people with experiences beyond your league, upto and including child slaves in Africa or disabled people, because you don't have the right to delve into those topics. Never mind that many great works of literature that changed the world and which concerned these topics were written by such people who 'shouldn't have the right' to talk about them; think Uncle Tom's Cabin. My opinion is that if you do a savage and scrupulous amount of research on such sensitive topics then you do indeed have the right to voice your opinions and your ideas on these topics.

Now this one I have seen.

Yes.

There is a rise in recent months of "sensitivity editors" - people who edit manuscripts looking for things an author should not be writing. Most big publishing houses have sensitivity editors now, and this has resulted in many authors now looking at their manuscripts with an over sensitive eye.

>>And with this also, any and all articles that decry this or that book as racist/ homophobic/ sexist/too white/ black/ chinese/ communist/ religious/ atheist just because a certain character inside said book got squidged are just plain lousy. They scream a desperate need for attention and lack sincerity and makes me think how fucking sensitive some cultures are compared to others. It reduces books and media to nothing but a political propaganda machine instead of an experience that's supposed to be enjoyed like one would a dance or a song.

I've not seen so many authors doing this, as I have readers doing it.

>>-But back on prose. Most writing advice I find online fails to distinguish the type of book each individual author is trying to write. I've never had an article help me find my own style; just because your airport novel is written in so and so style doesn't mean it's going to be of any use to my emotionally scarring drama set in fantasyland.

I find this logic a bit fascinating.

I'm wondering where exactly it is you are finding these articles.

It sounds like you are reading spun content off content farms and not going directly to actual author home pages to read stuff written by actual authors.

I ask this because, if an author writes an article giving writing advice, they do so on their author home page, where you find featured their novels for sale and some sort of author bio telling you the genre they write and the style they write.

When authors give advice in articles, they ALWAYS do so based off their own experience with writing their own novels.

If you are finding writing articles which fails to distinguish the type of book the individual author is trying to write, I question the validity of both the author of the article and the website on which you found said article, as no self respecting professionally published career author, is going to publish an article on writing, without telling you what it is they write and providing you with links to where you can find their published works, so that you read their books and see for yourself their advice in action.

An "author" who gives writing advice, but doesn't provide you with links to where you can find their published works, so that you read their books and see for yourself their advice in action, likely is NOT a published author and IS in fact a non-writer giving bad advice.

>>I feel that most articles are written by non-writers or utter amateurs, people who shouldn't be giving writing advice in the first place. They think that novels can become better by emulating film, by being more show then tell, forgetting the advantages of the medium like stopping time to describe the psst or the surroundings, enter a character's mind and showing their feelings in a few sentences instead of bullshitting around with camera angles, and the ability to play with language. Like cripes, don't these people read anything good? Does every novel nowadays have to be a nihilistic gorefest and sound like a Martin Scorsese film?

An "author" who gives writing advice, but doesn't provide you with links to where you can find their published works, so that you read their books and see for yourself their advice in action, likely is NOT a published author and IS in fact a non-writer giving bad advice.

One glance at an author's home page should IMMEDIATELY tell you the type of books the individual author writes. And if you are reading a random article on a random content farm mish-mash site (like HubPages of Medium) then trust nothing you read as 90% of it is stolen content, respun, and posted by people in China who are NOT authors.

If you want REAL advice, from REAL authors, then make a list of your favourite authors, then go to those author's home pages and read articles written by your favourite authors.

An author will put their writing advice articles on their own website, not on some random content farm. Non-writers and utter amateurs, do not have author home pages, nor can they provide you with links to their novels so you can see their advice in action. It's very easy to determine if you are reading an article by a published author simply by looking at the site the article is published on.

WikiHow, Medium, DeviantArt, Tumblr, HubPages, Reddit, Quora, and site like them... are NOT author home pages, and advice found on them should be taken with a grain of salt, as they are highly likely to NOT be written by actual authors.

>>I'd bet money saying 90%, maybe even 95%, of the people on this sub don't read books, and haven't finished one in years, if ever. It's likely the reason those famous authors that everyone has seen the movies of are so often cited.

I agree with this, especially considering when I read many of the posts around here they are always referencing this or that movie or tv show and I'm totally lost in those conversations, seeing how I haven't owned a tv in more then 30 years, so I know books, but I've never heard of the movies or tv shows being mentioned... I read 2 or 3 novels a week, but I'm clueless as to the references people around here make comparing writing to movies and tv.

It does feel to me, like most advice people give around here, comes from people who watch tv and try to translate that to writing, without themselves having either read or written a book.

>>But, to be fair, you also have to remember the writers you mentioned are among "the greats" of their genre, and for very good reason.

Of all the authors he mentions, I've only ever heard of one of them (JKRowlings) so though the others may be "greats" they clearly are genres I don't read, and as he pointed out... apparently the only reason they are famous is because of a movie or tv show, meaning, I've never heard of them because I have no tv media influencing what I read.

I know, often when I mention authors here on the sub, people will say: "Who's that? Never heard of them." Turns out most of what I read is rather obscure (at least obscure to the sub users here). I almost never read bestsellers and tend to read heavily from stuff publishing between 1930 to 1970s. A lot of amazing genre fiction (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Murder Mystery, Gothic Romance) was written in that era, that the average reader today has no clue exists. I like to go to thrift stores, flea markets, and yard sales looking for old 30s to 70s era paperbacks. Often you can get a box load of 20 or 30 or more of them for $5. So many well written books, forgotten, most not even for sale on Amazon, out of print for decades... but no less enjoyable to read.

But, I stopped mentioning my fave authors and fave books in my posts on this sub, simply because no one ever heard of them, and often, people act like I'm a freak for not reading bestsellers and instead reading lots and lots of less popular books.

People often ask me how I can survive without a tv... I own 300k+ books (at last count), read 100+ books a year. I've no time for tv... I've got too many books in my tbr list.

>>The consensus right now is that Uncle Tom's Cabin is a racist text.

Is it?

It's been about 40 years since I read it, so maybe I'm forgetting something, but I remember it being one of the first books to stand up AGAINST racism.

In fact the author was attacked by racists for standing up for the rights of black people by writing it.

It was my great-grand mother's favorite book. She was a 100% full blooded Kickapoo Native American Indian. She named her daughter, my grandmother Eva, after main character Little Eva.

>>WOW ... ONE HUNDRED BOOKS!! That is AMAZING!

>>Seriously dude, come back when you have read over 5K or over 10K books.

LOL! I kind of thought the same thing.

As stated above, I've got over 300k books. I buy 100+ books a month.

I read 2 or 3 novels a week... for the past 40+ years.

I've read more then 7,000 books to date. 

>>Most writing advice isn't stupid.

>>It's just that most writing advice is really general and it doesn't apply to everyone.

This is what I've found as well.

When you look at an article on writing. What do you get? 1,000, words, maybe a little more, of one author's opinion of one tiny sliver of one aspect of writing. The article being based only off that one authors experience.

There are thousands of topics within the topic of writing. And thousands of authors writing articles about them.

No one author can cover every topic effectively. And each article, only covers one tiny aspect of a larger picture. Every author writes based on their own experience, so every article shows the topic differently. We learn what worked for them and what did not work. Perhaps by reading the article, we notice an error they made, one that we can now take and test out. Perhaps the thing that did not work for them, ends up working for us. Maybe we try the thing that did work for them, but it doesn't work for us.

I for one enjoy reading the articles and blog posts written by authors, because every one of them gives a different perspective, thus each offers the potential to learn something new, and learning new things is never bad.

>>Cripes, King and his On Writing book is also mentioned alot. He's also an author whom I DON'T like reading.

>>I can't read his books, they bore me to tears.

Yes. Too much. FAR too much. I can't stand Stephen King. His writing is absolute crap. It takes him 500 pages to say what he could have said in 10 pages, and everybody quotes his advice to get rid of adverbs... talk about hypocrite... he uses more adverbs than anyone else!

I can't figure out why so many people love him.

>>Not to be a dick, but I think the main issue with this sub is that most people are too-willing to take things for granted, or basically borrow others' opinions--Put more pretentiously, they don't realize that what makes captivating writing is a nuance or originality of mind.

>>yet the crowd seems to get incendiary, or worse yet, silent when these topics come up. Why does nobody discuss health or wellness? Exercise, nutrition, making sure you feel alive and vibrant enough to be creative? Why do people just accept status quo opinions about issues that deeply affect them when they profess to want to improve at what can only be described as a deeply intellectual pursuit?

I had mentioned this very thing on another writing forum. My question was basically: "Why can't we as authors talk about the unique health issues we writers face? We sit in one spot of hours to a time, often for days on end, often sitting their drinking too much caffeine and eating too much junk food. Then We are prone to pulled tendons in our hands/fingers/wrists, etc, etc,etc. Why can we talk about these things as well? Are these things related to writing?"

No one ever wants to talk about that sort of stuff.

I've had surgery for carpal tunnel, I've had pulled wrist tendons 4 times in the last decade, I gained way to much weight from not moving around enough, but then developed a lemon water and kale smoothie diet that helped me to lose 30lbs without increasing exercise or taking away from my writing time. Then I found a way to add exercise to my day, losing 30 more pounds, while still not taking from my writing time by power walking daily AND talking my novels into a voice recorder, so still getting my writing done.

These sorts of things would definitely be helpful to share with fellow writers, because while not directly the craft of writing, they are related to the writer's life and helpful to the unique health situations we as writers face because of our careers.

>>Now, I get that most people here are young, and may not even be interested in "great" writing, whatever that means. Yet, in as much as I'm not a huge fan of "genre" writing, it would be even more insulting to just assume that people who want to write fantasy/sci-fi/romantic pony thrillers can't reach the same level of writing as more "literary" minded writers--it's a bullshit distinction, for the most part.

I am agreeing with this. It does feel like most people here care only about genre writing and are not interested in actual writing techniques. Though that's not a bad thing. It's just people having different personal interests and therefore seeking out ways to advance their skills in their chosen interests. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm a huge fan of both Literary works and genre fiction though.

I find that most people think Literary and Genre fiction are exclusive to each other and both can not exist in the same story or even the same forum. Me, I'm constantly asking, why can't you have genre fiction written in Literary style? Why can't Literary Fiction feature genes. Why can't we have Literary Fantasy? Literary Science Fiction? Literary Romance? That's a thing I'd love to see more of.

I write Slice of Life Literary Genre in a Fantasy setting with an Elf main character.... as a general rule it doesn't sell well, and it's largely because genre readers are horrified by the fact that I dared defile Fantasy with Literary style prose, while Literary fans are equally horrified that I've defiled Literature by putting Elves and Faerie wizards in it.

Oh well.

I started writing it, because I love Literary style writing, I love the drama of Slice of Life that follows a character through his mundane life as he thinks deep thoughts about life issues, but was getting bored with the modern day settings, and I love Fantasy settings, but get bored with all the battle and fight scenes. I wanted to see the mundane slice of life drama side of Fantasy, and since I couldn't find it to read it, I set out the write the thing I wanted to read.

Both Fantasy fans and Literary fans seem to think I've done something horrifically blasphemous by blending the two, which I think is just plain silly.

>>I strongly agree with your first point about exposition. I do wonder what these posters here think of mystery novels where there are lots of exposition due to the necessity of the genre.

I like exposition in novels. 

But I'm someone who reads a lot of Murder Mysteries as well, so that could be something to do with it maybe?

But, yeah, I use exposition ALL THE TIME in my novels. I think the trick to it, is the weave it into your story here and there in small chunks. Perhaps the reason people say not to write exposition, is because too many people use exposition as an excuse to info dump. I think when people say "do not write exposition" I think what they actually mean is "do not info dump".

When I need to write a long exposition, what I do is write the whole thing seperate from my novel. It'll probably become a super long info dump, thus why I write it in a separate file. But here's how I take that info dump, and weave it into the story so that no info dump exists, and the expositions are short.

Then after I'm finished, then I examine it, and see if there are ways to add parts of it to dialogue I have already written. For example, I take one sentence from the info dump sized exposition, find a matching topic dialogue, and re-write that sentence to work into the dialogue. 

I do that with every sentence from the info dump, finding dialogue throughout the entire novel that each sentence fits in. But not all sentences will be workable into dialogue, so now anything that I couldn't weave into dialogue, I now weave into narration. But same as for dialogue I keep them short trying to add only one sentence at a time to each place.

I end up with shorter expositions and fewer info dumps.

Hope that helps.

>>but it really does boil down to getting good at your craft by practicing as much as you can.

Yep, yep.

I completely agree with this.

That's why I'm constantly saying: Researching is not writing, planning is not writing, outlining is not writing, plotting is not writing, world building is not writing, only writing is writing, so just write, write, write, the only way to become a better writer is to simply write, write, and write some more.

Practicing writing, makes you a better writer.

absolutewrite.... oh my... you got banned... wow, who HASN'T been banned from absolutewrite, OMG! LOL! sadly, 90% of people who try to join that forum will be banned, for disagreeing with mods, after the mods viciously and violently massacre some quote from a famous author... looks like you learned that lesson the hard way... basically if you haven't been a member since 2005, they don't want you there. Newbies are attacked viciously on that site and the mods are the ones who do the attacking, basically it's a cliche' group of mods who use it as their personal pat on the back place and no one else is allowed

Strange place.

I frequently read posts there, almost daily, but I only post 1 or 2 posts a year, because I'm terrified of their most hostile members. Definitely not a place for anyone new to writing. Boy are they brutal with their opinions!

Sorry you got on their bad side. Don't let them put you off writing groups. They have a 2 decades long history as being one of the single most hostile forums on the internet for ANY topic. Try Googling horror story blog posts of others like yourself who got lashed out at for seemingly no reason at all.

{{{hugs}}} Don't let it get to you. They do that to everyone.

Have you tried looking to MeetUp (a site like Craigslist, but for people looking for local clubs and groups) for a local writing group? That's how I found the one I go to.

Also the best writing group I ever joined, was one I found through a local community college. It was for anyone who was taking writing courses at the college. We had weekly group meetings and twice weekly college course classes... it was amazing. It by far improved my American English (which is not my native language) to be in a class with American college students.

Posters here likely skew towards the younger side and a lot of them probably aren't writing professionally.

I agree.

You can usually tell the age of a poster quite quickly as well by the way they "talk", the type of words they use, and the type of questions they ask.

Based on what I see in most of this sub, it appears that the bulk of the question askers are between the ages of 12 to 18, while most of the commenters are from the ages 16 to 24.

>>I've been noticing a lot of people discussing or asking questions about some seriously depressing writing topics on this subreddit. I realize that darker themes and morally grey characters are somewhat popular right now (Game of Thrones, etc.), but almost every one of these posts sound like carbon copies of each other.

Very few kids are able to write adult topics, because have not yet experienced them and can not even begin to understand them. On the other hand teen depression has increased in the past decade by 67%, resulting in teen authors focusing on writing doom and gloom, because they can't comprehend anything else as a load bearing topic of a person's life.

>>Are there any successful novels that actually follow this pattern? I've always understood that active protagonists (i.e. those who affect the present instead of dwelling on the past) tend to be more popular than inactive protagonists. Is this trend starting to shift?

Likewise, very few children are ever published. The depressed gloom and doom stories they write, are not what publishers seek, nor what readers read. Then they wonder why they can not get published, become more depressed and write even more gloom and doom.

Teens and young adults are always prone to think dark depressing thoughts, write dark depressing topics, and then bemoan the fact that publishers do not publish fiction by teens.

>>Posters here likely skew towards the younger side and a lot of them probably aren't writing professionally.

Professional career writers do not ask the types of questions you see on this sub.

If you pay attention, the bulk of questions are things that a professional career author would look at and think: "How are you so stupid you can't figure this out on your own?" There are many questions involving things career authors don't even think about: writer's block for example.

Career authors know that writer's block is a cop out excuse, a myth, a thing used by non-professionals to describe the fact that they are too lazy to treat writing as a career. When you have a job, you get up in the morning, go to work, do your job, take a break at noon for lunch, go back to work, go home. You do that even when you are an author and work at home. Yet every day 3 or 4 new writer's block related questions get posted. Why? Because they are kids with no concept of having responsibilities, doing a job because you have to do it to pay the bills, and not having the option to say: "I don't know what to write."

Career authors, know the basics of grammar. They are not asking basic questions taught in high school, because they already have a college degree in English. They were responsible students who paid attention in school. Yet, you see questions about verbs, nouns, and comas posted here every week.

Career authors are publishing 4 novels a year minimum, they know how to create characters, write dialogue, come up with ideas, outline novels, plot stories, etc. Yet you see dozens of questions of this nature every day here.

Why are life shattering backstories so popular on this subreddit? If it's so life-changing, shouldn't that be the story, not the flashback? I'm sorry if this came off a bit "rant-ish", but I'm genuinely curious. Is there something that I'm missing?

The answer is simple... the people asking these questions are kid just getting started in writing. They know nothing of the basics, they know nothing of story structure or how to take a story from point A to point B.

And this is thus what brings them here.

They write themselves into a corner, get stuck, and because they lack training or experience, they come here asking for help. They know they've done something wrong, but they don't know what. They've not yet learned how to deal with the situation they are writing and so ask for help.

The thing you have to remember, is this sub is a place where young writers can come to learn, seek advice, and ask questions.

They may not be career authors, YET, but many have that as a goal. Many are seeking to become published. Many seek to make writing their career.

Well, think about it... the only way to learn how to go from a beginner to a professional, is to ask questions, seek advice, and get answers. And that's a good thing. It means they know there is something wrong, but rather then ignore the problem, they come here to say: "So I did this, but it feels wrong, how do I fix it?"

>>Is there something that I'm missing?

I think, that is the point you are missing.

You are looking at these questions thinking: "So they are publishing THIS?"

When instead you should be looking at it as: "So, this isn't working for them, and they want to know how to make it better. What do I know about stories I read that can help them improve and make this story better? How can I help them on their path to becoming a published author? How can I help them make this story the best it can be?"

The point is, if they were professional career authors, they wouldn't be here asking these sorts of questions to begin with. And at the same time, if they did not take their writing seriously, they wouldn't be here asking for help. They want to improve. And that's a good thing.

There is nothing wrong with people asking for advice on how to improve their work.

After many years, let's update this page...
it's now June  1, 2021 and I'm adding this:

I've never heard of the concept of an A Story and a B Story before, it sounds like one of those new fangled concepts modern "writing gurus" (aka people who have never published a thing but whom like to try "teach" newbie writers how to write by giving them crappy advice that no actual author would ever use) would preach.

I question the advice on how to write a novel, when it comes from someone who never actually wrote a novel in his life (the author of Save The Cat, writes screen play scripts for TV shows, which is a completely different format than novel writing) so unless you are writing a screenplay script for a TV show, I would take any advice from the Save the Cat series with a grain of salt. 

When you take advice from someone, you should always do a background check to make sure they actually do the thing they are advice and aren't just talking out their ass. You wouldn't want someone who never played a piano in their life, teaching you how to become a concert pianist would you?

>>>"The A Story is the external story. It’s the stuff that happens on the surface. Car chases; wars; fights in the school hallway; new jobs; casting magic spells; taking on an evil, dystopian government; poisoning the king. Essentially, it’s the exciting stuff. The “cool” stuff. Or what’s also referred to as the premise. On the other hand, the B Story is the internal story. It’s the story that’s intricately linked to what your hero needs to learn in order to change their life, complete their transformation, and enter the hall of fame of story-worthiness. The B Story/internal story/need is what your novel is really about." - Saves the Cat! Writes a Novel

This very quote shows how little he knows about novels.

Car chases? Really? When was the last time you saw a car chase in a NOVEL? That's something you see in TV shows and movies. Oh geeh ... well you look at that, the advice came from someone who has never written a novel and ONLY writes TV shows and movies. No wonder he's telling you to write car chases in you NOVEL. Oh for crying out loud! Why do people who don't write novels spend so much time trying to teach others how to write novels? It's so annoying. 

It would be one thing if they were giving good advice, but this is NOT good advice. It's bad advice, from someone who doesn't have a clue how novels work and is trying to jam what he knows about writing for movies into writing for novels.

Good god! I wish people who don't write novels would stop trying to give advice to new writers looking to get started in novel writing. All it does is confuse the poor newbie and cause them to give up on their writing career before they even get started.

Car chases happen in MOVIES, not in NOVELS. In movies, you can see the car zipping down the road and it's exciting to watch, but in a novel, it's boring as hell to read: The car turned left. Than right. It's going 80 now. It zipped around the corner. Now it's driving past the store. Look at it go. Car chases are a MOVIE EXCLUSIVE item. In a novel you get the dialogue of 2 characters sitting in the coffee shop: "So, did you see that car chase on East Grand Ave last night?"

Wars are MENTIONED in NOVELS, but you never see the one on one fight happen, you see the characters talking about the fight, only in MOVIES do you see the actual fight. In the MOVIE you see the swords clashing and it's exciting. But in the novel, it's boring to read: "He parried right. He dodged left. The sword just missed his head." No one wants to read that. In a NOVEL you see the characters interacting, living their lives, and talking about the war going on around them. You encounter 2 men sharpening their swords and talking about: "Bob's in the infirmary. He took an arrow to the knee. Probably never walk again. It's guard duty in the village for him now. Lucky bastard. Wish I'd take an arrow to the knee. I'm due for the front lines today."

Fights in the school hallway, again, are not something you see in NOVELS, you see them in Disney MOVIES, but in a NOVEL, you see the kids yakking in the school yard "So, did you hear about the fight in the hallway this morning. Heard Mary Sue gave Peggy Lue a black eye. Bet they'll both get detention."

Action that works in a movie, rarely works in a novel, just like dialogue that works in a novel, rarely works in a movie. Each is a different beast.

>>>"The A Story is the external story. It’s the stuff that happens on the surface. Car chases; wars; fights in the school hallway; new jobs; casting magic spells; taking on an evil, dystopian government; poisoning the king. Essentially, it’s the exciting stuff. The “cool” stuff. Or what’s also referred to as the premise. On the other hand, the B Story is the internal story. It’s the story that’s intricately linked to what your hero needs to learn in order to change their life, complete their transformation, and enter the hall of fame of story-worthiness. The B Story/internal story/need is what your novel is really about." - Saves the Cat! Writes a Novel

This advice is good for someone looking to write a movie, sure, but it's really bad advice when it comes to novel writing.

I think the reason you are having trouble coming up with Story A, is because, that's a MOVIE script concept that just doesn't lend itself over to novel writing very well.

Movies REQUIRE action because it's a visual medium and people will get bored watching 2 characters sit and talk. But novels rarely have any real action in then. Try reading a few novels and you'll see.

A prime example would be Hermione's Save the House Elves Club.

That was a MAJOR plot point in the Harry Potter novels, that took up more than half the story, and revolved around the students sitting and talking and debating and talking and voting and talking and petitioning and talking and making buttons and talking and handing out buttons and talking, and in the novels it worked really well, it held your interest and wanted to keep reading their dialogue because it was interesting dialogue and you wanted to find out what was going to happen to the House Elves, was Hermione going to be able to pull this off and save poor Dobby and his friends?

But, the movie producers rightly excluded that entire PRIMARY PLOT POINT from the Harry Potter movies because, well, how boring would it have been to watch hour after hour after hour of kids sitting around talking, debating the rights of house Elves, the way they had done in the novels?

It was fascinating to read in the novels, but it would have been hell to watch in a movies. Movies require steady, non-stop action to hold the eyes of the viewer on the screen. Novels aren't visual so they don't need that. And when you try to put that same kind of action in a novel, it comes off boring to read.

>>>My ideas are about internal struggles or sometimes people

That's good.

That's VERY good.

That's what a novel should be.

That's what all the best novels are.

Read classic Action Adventure novels like Treasure Island or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. There is NO action in them. ZERO. And yet they are the best action novels ever written. Why? Because they focus on the internal mental and emotional struggles of the characters. 

You feel like you are there with Jim in that hut, as he sits there looking around at the dead bodies and wonders if his friends are still alive. He monologues the whole chapter. Worry. Fret. Panic. Worry. fret. Panic. And you feel it. You feel how terrified he is that night is coming and the pirates will return and kill him next. It's terrifying. And it's all dialogue. Full on 100% dialogue. There no actual action. But it FEELS like the action happened to YOU as you read him sitting there huddled up hugging his knees terrifying that Long John Silver is coming for him next. It's one of the most terrifying scenes in the novel, but it's not in ANY Treasure Island movie, because it'd be boring to watch, even though in the novel it sucks you in and is the best scene. 

And the same for Captain Nemo. You feel like you are on that submarine. You feel like you are about to die. It's terrifying, because it's all monologuing dialogue of one character talking to himself chapter after chapter. No action happens on the page at all, but the dialogue is written so well, that you feel like there is none stop action happening. That's the power of good well written internal character struggles. There is no action in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or Treasure Island, and both novels are widely regarded as the 2 best Action novels ever written. Why? Because it's pure dialogue - one character monologue their fears, their anxieties, their internal struggles, and it sucks you in and you feel terrified with them, you feel hunted with them, you feel like the enemy is coming after you too. You feel like there is none stop action, but it's just pure dialogue.

Read them. Read Treasure Island and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. And you'll see for yourself, how internal character struggles equal the best Action your story will ever have without any of that action ever appearing on the page.

>>>My ideas are about internal struggles or sometimes people

Focus on that. It's a powerful thing. Character driven stories that deal with internal struggles end up being the best stories of all. I love character driven stories. Most readers do. From you've described, I don't think you need the "story A". I think what you got already is powerful enough on it's own, just expand on it, see where it goes. Follow your characters through their internal struggles. I think it'll make for a powerful story that will draw your readers in emotionally.

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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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Read More IMPORTANT NOTE: All the writing prompts found here on my website, are also available in printed paperback editions, on Amazon. There are no ebook editions as they are already available digitally here on my website. January February 2026 Updates If you are one of (as of December 2025, the now more than ten thousand) daily visitors, who arrive here daily in search of SEO advice, I made this page for you: My response to the alarming spike in traffic to my "SEO" pages. aka I am getting Weird Spike In Google Traffic For SEO & Content Writing & Marketing keywords and search terms even though this is a Yaoi and Gay Romance website that has absolutely nothing to do with SEO or Content Writing or Content Marketing What the fuck? The Park Bench Method of Writing Receiving death threats over a septic tank and a little brown log cabin, but I own neither a septic tank nor a little brown log cabin... what even are these thugs talking about? 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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? 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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! 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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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