Typing Like A True Novelist? | Some Thoughts On New Writer Mistakes To Avoid Making



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

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

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

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

List of the published titles still in print:

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

What the series is about, for those new here:

The introduction to The Pink Necromancer Series. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Update Sept 3, 2026:

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

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

update sept 7, 2026

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

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

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

see video below for more information: 


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

update Sept 15, 2026:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Typing Like A True Novelist? | Some Thoughts On New Writer Mistakes To Avoid Making

So, I was over on Reddit, you like I often am, and found this question. And answered it, like I do. However, the answer I initially gave was a simple generic answer. If you want to read my original answer unaltered, simply click on Reddit's embed feature links which Reddit provides for webmasters to be able to post their answers on their websites, while linking back to the original thread on Reddit (if you didn't know Reddit offered and encouraged the use of this feature, look for it in the "share" features underneath every post, comment, and reply on Reddit).

I am answering random questions today about world building, over on Reddit and decided to take my answers from there and expand upon them even further over here. So that's what this page is. Me rambling on about various aspects of world building techniques I use when writing the Quaraun series. The questions I am answering are embedded here. Clicking the link in the embedded question will take you to the original Reddit page where you can see the original answer along with other people's answers. If you wish to comment, you can do so on the Reddit page where a place to do so is provided.

In any case, as with all of my Reddit answers found on my site here, my original post on Reddit is much shorter then the article here.


How to write A LOT in one sitting (help)

How to write A LOT in one sitting (help) from writing

How to write A LOT in one sitting (help)

So how do I sit down, and write till the wee hours in the morning, typing up 10-20 pages at a time like a true novelist? 

When you are just starting out, aim for 750 words a day, written over a period on 3 to 4 writing sessions a day. So, around 200 words per sitting.

>>So how do I sit down, and write till the wee hours in the morning, typing up 10-20 pages at a time like a true novelist?

No beginning writer is going to do this without fast finding themselves in the hospital, with carpal tunnel, pulled wrist muscles, blood clots in fingers, knuckle cramps, water retention at the joints, strains, sprains, and other such things, most of which require surgery to fix and will have your hands in casts for 12 weeks.

Writing is like playing sports. Because it uses a lot of muscles, it requires warm up exercises. Stress balls are good for this.

Also, like sports, never do it for extended periods. Write for no more than 45 minutes max. Then take a minimum 15 minute break.

In addition to hand, wrist, and finger injuries, you also need to be aware of leg, back, and neck issues, caused from extended sitting for too long to a time. Common problems writers are faced with include leg cramps, belly bulge, stiff neck, varicose veins, pinched nerves, slipped discs. All of which are caused by sitting and not moving. Thus every 45 minutes, get up and walk. Do a quick yoga session. Sit ups. Chin ups. Stair stretches. Chair Squats. Walk your dog around the block. Weed your garden. Walk down your driveway and get your mail. Something. Anything. Just get your blood circulating.

Drink A LOT of water. This is VERY, VERY, VERY important. If you are dehydrated, you'll pull the muscles out of your fingers. They will snap in half, right off the bone, require surgery to reattach, and your fingers will be in little funny looking casts for 6 damn months. Been there, done that. Never again. If you want to do high output typing, drink no less then one gallon of water a day. More is better.

I have found that it is best, to buy a 12 pack case of 24oz bottled water. And every hour, drink one. All of it. Then the next day, refill them all, and every hour, drink another one. That's 288oz of water a day. You need to keep your finger muscles "lubricated" so to speak, by making sure that your blood flow is circulating properly. Thus the getting up every 45 minutes, to walk around for 15 minutes AND drinking 24oz of water while you are up waking around.

Know that speed typing takes time and practice and you not going to learn it overnight. The average writer should strive for 35 to 50 words a minute. Programs like Dr. Wicked's Write or Die (free) will help you increase your typing speed.

If you really want to get into high speed typing, then you want to find a local college that offers secretary training courses and take a semester long class in secretarial typing. You'll be using old school typewriters, not computers, for a class like this. So no way to fix your mistakes, thus you need to have very good spelling and grammar prior to taking such a course. You will be required to pass a live timed test at the end the semester - to graduate you will need to type at a speed of 175 words per minute with at least 80% accuracy. The bulk of the course, is you doing half hour of hand exercises, followed by half hour of typing practice - for 4 hours, 3 days a week, for 90 days of classes. You'll want to keep a lot of flexi-ice packs in your freezer, because you are going to need them. Your wrists are going to HURT. You'll be expected to be doing hand exercises and 4 hours of typing practice daily outside of class as well. Like grinding in a video game, this is probably the most boring, grueling class you could ever think to sign up for.

People often look at me flying through NaNoWriMo zipping past 500,000 words in 30 days, and then try to do it as well.

DON'T!

Think of it like trying out for the Olympics. It's not something you jump into and do without training. A LOT of training. YEARS of training.

I'm trained for this.

I took Basic Secretarial Typing, and Advanced Secretarial Typing 1, 2, and 3. I have 4 semesters of training in this type of high speed, long term typing.

That's how ggot an average daily speed of 91 words a minute, almost 5,000 words an hour. Most days I type around 17,000 words a day, because I don't just sit and type the full 8 hours I'm working. In fact I spend a lot more hours a day editing, then I do full stream typing. Keeping in mind, I type with one hand. I had a stroke years ago, my left hand is basically useless. But I didn't always do this. I trained for it. A lot of years of classes and very hard training went into my reaching this point. Also remember, I published my first book 40 years ago, in 1978. I'm not new to this. When I started out I struggled to reach 500 words a day. 3 years after publishing my first novel, I still struggled to reach 700 words a day. It took me a long time and a lot of determined persistence to get where I am.

You can do it, yes. But don't plan on it happening overnight. Plan on training for years and years and years, seeing slow improvement over time. Take it slow and steady. Don't push yourself too fast. You have to build up your muscle strength. Hand muscles are fairly weak compared to the rest of your muscles. It takes them a lot of time to build up the strength for this kind of typing.

I've also have hand surgery 4 times in the past 5 years, have pulled my wrist muscles twice in each arm, in the past 7 years. Frequently have to go in for MRIs to check my bones for fractures. I have to wear wrist braces, most every day of my life, to support my muscles. You wrist muscles are not made for this type of output. Know that the authors who are putting out a lot of work fast, are also dealing with a lot of medical side effects caused by the high level of physical strain they put on their hands, wrists, and forearms.

If you plan to be publishing 4 or 5 novels a year, then definitely seek out the training, but if you only plan to write maybe 1 novel this year, perhaps another novel 5 years from now, don't.

Authors typing up 10-20 pages at a time are NOT beginners, not even close, they are not even intermediates. They are people with very advanced training, years of practice, and are doing this as a full time job, pumping out novels monthly. High output authors are not the norm. Very few writers actually do this. Average authors take 2 years per novels and there's nothing wrong with that.

Do not try to push yourself into high speed, high output writing, until you've done the research to find out the type of training needed to reach that style output. Also check with your doctor before attempting this so of thing, if you do decide to aim for it, because if you have any kind of muscle or blood disorder (like I do - I have Chronic Tendonitis and Parkinson's) you'll need extra training in how to work around this sort of thing.

Don't be fooled by the glamour of being a novelist. Many have a false perception of what a career author's life is like. Few are prepared for the amount of work needed to reach the "dream" they assume novel writing to be.

If you have a story, just write it at your own pace, between work and school and family. If it takes one year, two years, even ten years to finish it, that's perfectly all right.

The only time you want to focus on speed and hgh output, is if you are planning on novel writing as a career, which means you'll also plan to be publishing no fewer then 4 novels a year for the rest of you life. Not many people have that many novels in them. If you think you want to make this a career... then go to college, take secretary typing courses, English Literature courses, Creative Writing courses, Business Ownership courses,and Entrepreneurship courses. Then look into getting into personal training with a focus on strengthening your hand and wrist muscles. You'll want strong wrist muscles that can handle this type of high strain work.


And on a similar topic, let's add additional thoughts here... Updated August 9, 2021:

Is the first act really 20% of the novel?


Note: This article about creating engaging "normal world" scene really helped me overcome some misconceptions I had about openings, but I'm still struggling with understanding appropriate pacing.

>>>Is the first act really 20% of the novel?


Uhm... I think the bigger question is do novels even have acts?

The answer is: NO.

In 50+ years of writing and having published in that time: 138 novels, 30 non-fiction books, 2,000+ short stories, a dozen plays, a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics, a few dozen novellas, and 10,000+ non-fiction articles... let me say this:

I have never used a plot.

I have never written an act.

I've have never taken time to "lay out setting" or "build the world" or "establish lore" or "introduce characters" or any other form of "used the first chapters to lay groundwork".

I've never written a prologue.

Before joining this subreddit I had never heard the words protagonist or antagonist before. I had to Google to find out what they were, even though I have written and published more novels than the average person will ever read in their lifetime.

I never went to school. I'm a female in Gypsy Culture. School was not allowed. Women being able to read and write is seen as a sin. To this day, I still can't do math, I don't know how to count, I can't tell time, I can't read clocks or calendars or count money. I taught myself to read and write with a copy of Treasure Island, a Webster Dictionary, a King James Bible, and a 99 volume Funk & Wagner Encyclopaedia - I took every sentence of every one of them, and wrote them down in notebooks. And because this...

...I also have never studied "how to write" or "how to read" or "how to analyse books for hidden meanings/themes/morals"... I read for one reason and one reason only: to travel with the main character. I want the main character to be my best friend and go with them, where they go.

All an author should really be focusing on: the character the reader will be travelling with and the story the character will share with the reader.

Authors used to be storytellers.

Authors used to have a story to tell and told it.

Why does no author today, ever think to tell a story any more?

Character and story are WHY readers read.

Since 1994, I can't find a book, written that way. Books published before 1994, the author put story and character first. They had to. Save the Cat had not yet been written, so they didn't know they were "supposed" to write in acts and plots and story arcs and character arches and beats. Before 1994 no author used those things to write because those things did not yet exist.

Before 1994, authors had a character to send on an adventure. A character with a story to tell.

I have never written a chapter.

Let me repeat that...

I have never written a chapter - yes, all my novels go straight through beginning to end without a single chapter. Why? Because no author in their right mind would ever think to write in chapters or chapter breaks. That is not how novels were written for the 300 year history of novel writing. Chapters were an invention of the 1960s and did not exist in novels before, and even than were rarely seen prior to the 1980s, when the publishing industry decided it was easier to publish books in 10 part segments. The PUBLISHER NOT the author would arbitrarily divide the book into 10 parts, taking the total number of pages and dividing it by 10. So, a 222 page novel would end up with 10 chapters of 22 pages each.

In response to this authors in the 1990s started to think in terms of chapters, and writing their books in parts... something that had NEVER been done by authors before... not once in the 300+ year history of the novel.

A side shoot of this, was the idea of writing a novel the same way as writing a stage play: in acts.

This is why the great classics from 1840 to 1950 are great classics and why 99.9% of everything published after 1994 is absolute shit garbage craptastic junk, that no one likes to read.

Authors used to be storytellers.

Authors used to have a story to tell and told it.

Why does no author today, ever think to tell a story any more?

No one cares about chapters. No one cares about acts. No one cares about arcs.

When was the last time you heard a person say:

"Chapter 5 of Lady of the Lake was the best chapter I ever read of any book ever!"

or

"The story arch on Life of Dreams is the best story arc ever written?"

No.

readers don't talk like that. They talk like this:

"Old Blind Pue is the best damn pirate I ever read!"

or

"Jim's story was amazing. I had so much fun reading that novel."

Readers think in terms of characters and story.

So that all an author should really be focusing on: the character the reader will be travelling with and the story the character will share with the reader.

When you get right down to it everything else is pointless.

Authors never thought about chapters or acts or beats or arches, because before the those things were NOT a part of the writing career for novelists. These things were part of the stage play and tv script industry.

A beat was made so the actor would know how many steps to take between saying each line. "Read my line" tap my foot one two three four "Read my next line" tap my foot one two "Read my next line" tap my foot one two three...That's literally why it is called a beat.

The concept of writing in chapters, archs, acts, and beats in an invention of Save the Cat, a book written by a TV SCRIPT writer who admits right in the prologue that they not only never wrote a novel, they also have never read a novel. Sadly newbie writers are so excited to start writing that they grab the first how to write book they see, THEY DO NOT READ THE INTRODUCTION where the author tells them NOT to use the book for NOVEL writing advice, plainly stating it's advice for writing stage plays and tv scripts, pointing out that they never read or wrote a novel and don't know the first thing about novel writing... and use it to do what? Write a novel.

Save the Cat is a really good book, the best for writing stage plays and movie scripts, but it really shouldn't be used for writing novels. The story flow of a script is so vastly different from the story flow of a novel. I don't know if you read that book or not, but I know every word of advice you claim you are following originated from that book, and sadly gets parroted by a lot of people these days as gospel truth for novel writing, when even the author of that book themselves say not to use their book on how to write tv scripts to write a novel.

When I write, I do this:

I take a character and I tell their story.

I tell it just like I would if I was sitting at a campfire telling it to you in person. No introductions, no lore, no world building, I just tell the character's story beginning to end.

That's all author did before 1994 and books were far better than.

Today authors worry about meaningless structure details that no reader cares about, and that's why so few novels published since 1994 are worth reading.

If I wanted to read a dry tech book on history or geography, I's read a college textbook, not a novel.

I think far too many new writers fail to realize that a good 90% of the "how to write" and "how to publish" books out there are written by people who both never wrote a novel and never published one and exist for one purpose and one purpose only: to many it's author money from unsuspecting new writers who think they need a how to write self help book in order to write a novel, when really all they need is to create 1 or 2 characters and just start writing a story about those characters.


>>>Am I overthinking things


Are you overthinking?

Yes.

Just write. Just take your character and write their story. 

Don't worry about plot, structure, acts, arch, introducing things, none f that stuff matters if you don't have a story worth telling. And when a story is worth telling, it doesn't need those things any ways.

Every character has a story waiting to be told. Just tell tell their story. Tell the same way you would, if you were camping out with your best friend, and telling them a story while you cook marshmallows. That really is the ONLY thing we as authors actually NEED to do.

We writers, you, me, and every one else on this subreddit, we are storytellers. We weave stories for people to read and enjoy.

It makes me sad to see that so few novels published the past 20 years, actually tell a story, because the author spent too much time focusing on the technical details of A Plots, B Plots, Beat Sheats... it ridiculous. Readers don't care about introductions and acts, readers care about identifying with a character who shares experiences, goals, hopes, dreams the reader has. 

Readers want characters who have been through what the reader has been through, so they can have someone to identify with.

Readers want characters who do things the reader wants to do but can't, so they read to experience it through the story.

Tell the story first, worry about the technical details later... and most likely by the time you get done writing the story, you'll discover, you didn't really need those tech details at all.

For most writers, thetech details are just going to trip them up and get in the way, clog up the story flow and slow it down.

Put story and characters first and you'll find everything else just sort of falls into place where it belongs on it's own as you write.

>When I first started my first draft, I was working with the pretty common wisdom that the first act of a novel should be about 20 to 25% of the story, length-wise. This time is for creating the setting, showing the protagonist in their normal world, establishing stakes and motivation, et cetera.


Unfortunately "common wisdom" is often quoted by people who don't work in the industry and think they know what they are talking about because they overheard someone else say something about it. So they misquote what someone else misquoted, making it doubly misquoted, and preach it as gospel truth. While every one who actually does have a career in the industry, rolls their eyes and goes What the flying f...? This is true of EVERY career and every industry, not just publishing/writing.

I grew up on an egg farm that had 500+ head of hens at any given time, not huge, but not small either. We knew the ins and outs of raising chicken from first hand experience. We also had goats and horses. City people who didn't know a hen from a rooster (literally, they called it hen and heness and had never heard the word rooster) showed up one day and tried to tell us how they were starting and egg farm and was scouting the competition, asked if they could have a tour of the farm. They yapped for a good hour on the pros of modern tech and bragged about all the Mother Earth News (magazine back than) articles they had read on raising chickens (a yet they didn't know what a rooster was???) 

They dumped tons of money into their egg business, stopped by a few more times to ask for advice and help, continued bragging how they'd have more success then us, because we were old fuddy-duddies, who's been running this farm the same way since my 15th-great-great-greats+granddaddy founded it in 1530. 15th generation egg farmers who knew the egg industry from being born and raised in it on a farm that had been an egg farm for more than 400 years... and they were quick to tell us we didn't know what we was doing, because they had read articles in a magazine, written by people who had 5 hes and thought they made them experts in the egg business.

Well, needless to say within the first year they learned that most of the magazine advice they read was written by people who, while they had 5 pet hens in their backyard, didn't know shit about how to deal with chicken cannibalism, didn't know they could be arrested for selling uncandled eggs to the public, didn't know the CDC would shut them down and kill all their 2,000 hens by burning the barn to the ground, because they didn't vaccinate for Marek's Disease...

...yeah... there's a hell of a big difference between reading articles that sound like good advice, but probably are written by people who don't practice what they preach, and actually working in the industry and knowing the ins and outs of how it ACTUALLY functions.

Writing novels is the same way.

Sure there are a million and one "writing blogs" out there offering rehashed versions of advice written by each other, but how many of those writer blogs are written by ACTUALLY published novelists? No many sadly.

SEO Content writing is a big business. Many of them get paid $2k or more PER DAY from Google AdSense, from just one page of their websites. My top paying article brings in $900 a month, just one article on one page of that website. Content writers of the internet NOT novel writers are the writers who make the big money. Novel writers are the starving artists of the writing career. And once you accept THAT fact, than you can see WHY there are so many writing articles on the internet, telling you how to write a novel. 

They don't want to help you write a novel, they want to attract Google bots to send them to page 1 in search results. And they will write WHATEVER they have to to get there. They don't care if it is good advice or accurate advice, so long as Google's Panda and Penguin give it's keywords the thumbs up.

So they write those articles for bots. They write what Penguin, Panda, Phantom, Humminbird, Pigeon, Fred, and Medic want to slap on page one of Google search results.

THIS is where the problem is for us novel writers in general, and young writers new to writing in particular.

They search Google looking for how to write a novel advice, and Google sends them NOT to the articles with the BEST advice, but rather to the articles with the best USE OF KEYWORD PLACEMENT in the article. The results in lots of newbie writers coming across the rehashed "common advice" that gets parroted over and over and over... but isn't actually very good advice at all.

Not knowing how Google ranks articles, they assume the top search results must be the best advice on how to write, and assume that the writers of those articles actually used that advice to write their novels...

... uhm... yeah... start looking into the writers f MOST writing blogs and writing websites and you'll quickly discover that most of them have NEVER written a novel at al and only started a writing blog because they thought it'd be a good way to make money online.

In short, it's a lot of people who don't actually write novels, who are dishing out most of the online advice on how to write novels, which has resulted in a lot of really bad advice being tossed around by a lot of newbie writers.

The whole situation is sad, because I see far too many young/new writers give up on their writing dreams, simply because they got some shady bad advice online and thought it was what "every writer" did.

Which brings me to...


>>>On the other hand, I've read a lot of recent advice (particularly aimed at YA writers) which seems to imply that the opening act, or at least the introduction to the characters and world, should be as short as possible. I've been told to hit the ground running, set the inciting event as close to the first page as possible, and deal with world-building and setting as it comes. Anything less and a modern audience will be bored.

>>>Am I overthinking things, or are these two pieces of advice in opposition?


Yes. The advice you are finding is contradicting each other.

Sadly BOTH are not standard or commonly used in the novel writing career/publishing industry and BOTH are hash advice common spouted off by content writers on "SEO Article Farming" style websites that try to pass themselves off as advice for writers.

Yes, BOTH are common advices you find on this subreddit, but do keep in mind the average user on this subreddit also openly admits they never read or write and just like to hang out here because it's one of the least toxic subs on reddit (we all know how toxic reddit can be, so it's understandable they like to hang out here)


Where to find more info on my methods to writing Elf culture, Elf society, Elf ethics, and the Elven way of life (aka other writing related articles that started out in life as Reddit answers):

  1. What makes an Elf an Elf?
  2. Moon Elves - Albinism in The Quaraun Series.
  3. How To Write Hot Sex - Video Interview On Elf Sex Lives
  4. On Writing A Clinically Insane Character Accurately, While Avoiding The Psychopath Stereotype
  5. Wizards vs Witches vs Sorcerers: How are they different?
  6. FAQs About Quaraun
  7. Psychedelics In A 'High' High Fantasy World (High Elves Getting High)
  8. High, High Elves: Elves on Opium | Drug Use 
  9. Writing Horror That Features Violence Against Children 
  10. Spell-casting Side Effects of Magic
  11. Child Sacrifice in Fantasy Novels
  12. Meet the Characters - Who is GhoulSpawn
  13. Marriage in Moon Elf Culture 

The Complete Index To Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Moon Elf Society, But Was Afraid To Ask;

or

The Zaharam-Chapelle-Parunas  Ethnographical World Building Questionnaire





While there are around 20k pages on this website, most of them are blocked from search engines, with only around 800 of them available for appearing in Google/Bing/etc search results. The remainder can only be accessed via the various links found throughout this site. This was done deliberately on my part, and I did it because the bulk of the pages on this website are chapters from 138 novels and 423 novellas, so only the first page of each novel and novella indexed by search engines, and the remainder are linked in order, one page at a time, via clicking "next page" at the end of each. So if you are looking for a specific page from a specific novel, Google can't help you.



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The attack also triggered labour.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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