November 14, 2023 will be the 10 year anniversary of the November 14, 2013 murder of my 8 month old infant son, at BugLight Lighthouse Art Studio of Southern Maine Community College in South Portland, Maine. If you have any information about who his killer is, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207-774-9322
My Son Was Murdered, The Killer Walks Free, Your Child Could Be Next!
FAQ: What are the most visited pages on this website and how many visits do they get?
Several years ago, I wrote an article on how to write different types of magic uses, or rather how I personally write various types of magic users within the context of my Quaraun books. Today that page is one of my top ten most visited articles. It gets 50 to 500 views/reads/hits/visits per day depending on the time of the years and has had over 200k visits total since it was published.
Amphibious Aliens: Debunking The Atwater Family's Alien Abduction Hoax with more then 30MILLION reads since 2007 and The GoldenEagle: Debunking Stephen King's World's Most Haunted Car Hoax with over tenMILLION reads since 2007 still rank as the two most visited articles on my website, but, neither of those are writing related.
Writing Medieval Servants is my most visited writing related article with over 7MILLION reads.
This website was started in 1996 and has 1 to 3 new articles (all written by me, I am the only writer on this site) published almost daily. In 2017 we crossed ten thousand articles published. As of 2023, EACH article gets MINIMUM 10 to 70 reads PER DAY, with the high traffic articles getting 500+ reads per day.
And since December 2019, my website now gets three hundred thousand to 7 million reads per month - well over ONE HUNDRED MILLION PAGE READS PER YEAR, making it not only the single most trafficked site in the State of Maine, but also one of the most visited websites in ALL OF NEW ENGLAND!
{{{HUGS}}} Thank you to all my readers for making this possible!
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I finally have a voice and plot I am confident with but I'm afraid people outside of my country or even my locality wont get it. from r/writing
I am Scottish. I write in Scottish English, which uses grammar similar to Irish English. You WILL get backlash - A LOT OF IT - if you publish in America.
I was quite shocked by the American response to my books when the reprints started being sold in America. In Europe I never once had a complaint with the spelling, words, or grammar. Not once in 4 decades.
Then reprints show up in America, and BOOM, I get an onslaught of emails HUNDREDS of them, from Americans, screaming bitchy outrage over what they referred to as me "making fun of uneducated Southern Black men" and "appalachian mountain people".
I've never meet either "uneducated Southern Black men" or "appalachian mountain people" so I've no clue what either sounds or talks like, so I wouldn't know the first thing about writing either. My characters in my books are Scottish Gypsies like myself, so talk and write exactly the same way I do.
I meet some of my American fans at various book signings and one day this guy walked up to me and starts talking to me then said: "Ohmygawd! You really do talk like mountain folk! No wonder you write that way!"
I'm constantly getting emails from so-called "Irish" and "Scottish" Americans who'll say stuff like "It's yes not aye, and we don't say wee lil we say young. Stop stereotyping us!" Ah! Well, I is sorry, me wee lil self has done dair gone un offended yar American bahookies, ya might want to check if ya still got any Scots left in ya aforing ya come sticking ya jobee in me face, eh?
OMG! Dealing with editors! I had to make a 79 page list of words that ARE NOT spelled wrong. Along with a list of grammar rules that ARE correct. As well as write a Scots to American dictionary of 20,000 words. I have to print up copies of this and give it to every editor I use, because try finding an editor who can read, write, or speak Scots English! Argh!
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Then I've got every American reader on the planet in my inbox going: "Why can't you release an edition translated into American?"
headbang
Because, the characters are NOT Americans, and they do not speak or act like Americans and if I translate their dialogue into American, it defeats the purpose of having Gypsy character portrayed ACCURATELY in a novel. How often do you see female Gypsies in books and them NOT be some stupid belly dancing, fortune telling slut assed bimbos? While the males are thieving con artists? Or they aren't even Humans, but some sort of magical race? Gah! Gypsy women dress very similar to Muslim women, fully veiled, there is no culture of dance or music in our culture because both things are seen as sinful and taboo, we are farmers of Shetland ponies and Cotswold sheep, not nomads, the only time we travel is when we are being hunted by anti-Semites, because Gypsies are a half-blood race of Persian Jews who were cast out of Israel, for their Jewish men taking Persian wives, and being chased out of your homes by Jew haters is fleeing for your life, not being a nomad, and the men have more in common with the Amish then anyone else. But do people know that? No! Why? Because most people only know our culture from the point of view of the media, and the media don't know shit about us Gypsies, and the average author can't be bothered to do any research about Gypsies before they slap us into a book. I'm one of the few Gypsy authors out there, and my novels are among the few to have Gypsies written accurately, right down to using their ACTUAL language in the books. Take away their native language and they are not portrayed accurately anymore, now are they? And THAT is why I absolutely REFUSE to Americanized my novels.
You see American readers crying for diversity in books, and then they get real live diversity, and they start screaming for it to be changed to meet whatever standards they think it should meet. That's exactly how the Native Americans lost their language and culture. Forced to conform to American whims.
Sorry for the seemingly off topic rant, but, it really gets on my nerves, when someone is made to feel they can not write their books in their native tongue.
>>Does anyone have any tips on how to overcome this? I don't want to change my characters voice, but I also don't want the novel to be intelligible. There's no colloquial words per se, but the sentence construction is colloquial and it may seem as though I have shitty grammar to an outsider.
I say don't. You have nothing to overcome. The world needs more diverse books, written with cultural flavour, written by the culture themselves. The world needs less white-washing and more ethnic diversity in it's books. Not enough Irish characters written accurately. We need more of it.
If someone thinks you have shitty grammar, well, that's a reflection of their own haughty arrogance, and not you. And if they've got their head stuffed far enough up their own ass to tell you that your grammar is shitty, well, again, it's a reflection on how narrow minded and bigoted they are and not a reflection on you.
You write your book your way and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Be true to you, be true to your characters. If people don't like it, well, tell them to write their own damned book. They write their books their way, you write your books your way, I write my books my way, and we end up with a world full of diverse books that reflect each of our individualities and that's as it should be.
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What did you do today to step closer to that goal?
Whatever you do, be your best at it!
And remember to have yourself a great and wonderfully glorious day!
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Evil men go out of their way to try to drive a person to suicide.
Are you an evil man?
Are you sure you're not?
How many people have YOUR hate filled words killed?
Next time you go to do a mean thing to a fellow human, stop and really think about the consequences of your actions.
Did you ever notice how every one has a story to tell about me, yet not one of them ever speaks the truth?
What lies has YOUR gossiping tongue spread about me?
Did you know...
October 16, 2006, bomb blew up my house because of YOUR lies.
August 8, 2013, the house which replaced the one the bomb blew up, was driven over by a backhoe.
November 14, 2013, my 8 month old infant son was murdered because of your lies.
November 14, 2013, I was beaten up, paralized for 5 months, spent 18 weeks relearning to walk, I'm now crippled for the rest of my life, because of YOUR lies.
Are you proud of what you have done?
Enjoy your eternity in Hell. You earned it. You've certainly worked hard for it.
~EelKat
If you have any information about any of these events, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207-774-9322
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