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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!
How do I write a characters death that can really affect the reader and the other characters around them? from writing
For me, as a reader, the death itself is not the thing that gets to me. A death on the page, is just yet another death on the page. One of many. Not the first I've seen, nor will it be the last. Fast death. Slow death. Sudden death. Grizzly death. Doesn't matter. Means nothing to me. It's just another death. Death gallops across the pages of books.
And I've seen more death in real life, so, it's hard to impress me with your fictional death that is hugely inaccurate to how real death is.
I hate it when someone who has never witnessed a murder, writes a murder, because someone like me who has witnessed multiple murders, can pick your inaccuracies apart.
It's very difficult for you as a writer to convince me as a reader, that your characters were ever alive enough for me to care about them, to begin with. So character deaths, almost never impact me at all.
This is not to say the death is meaningless, it is just that death happens so often in the types of novels I read (Fantasy and Murder Mystery), that is become difficult for the death to strike me and have me cry over the loss of yet another character.
What affects me, as a reader, about a character death, is the people left behind. Here are some examples of things I've read over the years that affected me:
My personal favourite....
In each of these cases, it's not the death that strikes emotion, but rather, the emptiness the one left behind is experiencing. The reaction of the person left behind. Their lives torn apart. Their normacy shattered. Their desperate to make things right. They fight against a thing they can not change. Watching them struggle and fail to come to terms with the death. It's their failure to regain any ability to function normally that is heartbreaking. Watching them as they mentally and emotionally fall apart, is the thing that makes me feel for them. Seeing them suffer. Seeing their mind unable to go back to living a normal life. That's the thing that always gets to me. Seeing the person struggling to get through the small everyday tasks, while being reminded at every turn, the person who normally did those tasks with them, is never coming home. Watching them struggle to come to terms with the emptiness that now exists in their life. That to me, is far more powerful then the death itself.
The character death never affects me, but watching the survivor go mad in their attempts to adjust to life without someone they loved - that always affects me very strongly.
>>>Was thinking about Game of Thrones (Song of ice and fire) and how the author (George RR Martin) kills off important characters quickly. This is pretty powerful since it sets the tone that no-one is safe, which makes the reader more alert and curious if they can get hints as to who dies next, and gives believability to a brutal world.
I do not know Game of Thrones or George RR Martin. I assume George RR Martin is the one who wrote Game of Thrones based on your wording, but this is Reddit after all, so I'm not I can go by that. 99% of the so called writers on the writing subreddit wouldn't know grammar if it hit them in the face, so it tends to be a toss up wither they actually mean the book and the author go together. But your post sounds like you mean he is the author of the book you mentioned so I will assume that he is.
In any case, you seem to suggest that killing of important characters is rarely done or that this book and it's author are the first to do it?
This tells me that you are not well read.
Killing off important characters is a staple, that can be found in the Bible written some 5,000 years ago and Shakespeare a few hundred years ago.
Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson did it constantly.
Edgar Allan Poe has 5 stories where the main character dies while they are telling the story in first person.
Ernest Hemingway and Herman Melville and Jack London are all known for killing on almost every character.
The Witcher series, written 30 years ago, killed off some 5,000 characters, all of them introduced as though they were important and going to be there a while.
The first novel in my series that I write was published in 1978, and in the 130+ novels in my 50 years of writing the series, I've killed off 750+ characters whom reader considered quite important. Including I killed off the main character and brought in a new main character, more than once. If I'm writing it, you can't even trust the main character to stay alive.
Killing off primary characters is nothing new. Read more and you'd have known that.
Killing off primary characters is part of the reason the world's top literature, the so-call "100 greatest classics" and no main character was safe in anything written in the 1800s, main characters got shot, beaten, horse whipped, lost limbs, and were brutalised all the time. Read any novel written in the 1880s and you'll be left to wonder how any human survived the 1800s long enough for the 1900s to even come along at all.
I think the problem is, somewhere in the 1990s, authors and publishers alike turned into politically correct tuttie fruttie snowflakes too scared to step on anyone's toes, so suddenly just about every novel from 1997 onward was nothing but goody-two-shoe happening to main characters because we got to be diverse and have someone of every color and kill no one. So books stopped being brutal and people who only read new releases forgot that literature is and always was brutal, bloody, and killed off everyone even the the main characters themselves.
Heck look at Harlequin Romance novels of the 1970s, where every story started out with the main character's family brutally murdered and she being only 14 years old, got carted off to an orphanage to be beaten and abused, before being sent as a governess to some haunted house where she was terrorized and traumatized by ghosts, until dream date rescued her. Romance in the 1970s was bloody and brutal, had more violence than war stories, had most terror than horror stories. Than in the 1990s suddenly, "Oh no, we can't kill anyone in Romance, we might some readers' feelings"
Oh boo-hoo. Fuck readers' feelings. If your reader ain't feeling something, it's either because your reader is dead or your story is dead.
The world today is a bunch of pansies, who can't get away from mommies apron strings because something might make them have feelings.
What the fuck is everyone scared of feelings for?
No author dares to write anything any more because they might hurt someone's feelings, some one might be offended.
So the hell what? The world ain't pretty. People die. Mass shootings happen every day. Murders walk free and families get no justice. Suicide, rape, bigotry, child abuse, starvation, homelessness, murder, racism ... Reality sucks. Deal with it. Grow some balls. Stop being scared to write the world as it really is.
I hate what the publishing industry has become today.
Censor this. Can't write that. Oh no no no no no, that might hurt someone's feelings, we gotta have everything coming up roses. Fuck that! Fuck it all!
Write your story your way. If you step on toes - GOOD! Maybe those toes NEEDED some stepping on to wake them up and stop then hiding their heads in their ass like some fucking ostrich.
The world ain't nice and today's publishing industry needs to step back and take a reality check.
>>>It's a meta-stake of sorts, a stake the reader gets - which character should I avoid becoming invested in or care about? What if that person dies next?
What the fuck?
You would really avoid becoming invested in someone because they might die?
Go fucking shoot yourself you fucking cunt. People like you make me sick. You don't deserve to live. Go die! So we don't have to worry about caring about you.
How's it feel, to have no one care about you, because you might die?
You bastard out of hell.
People like you is what's wrong with the world.
People like you is why so many senior cats and dogs die in kennels... 14,000 of them every single day. because people like you don't want to take the time to be invested in someone that is going to die so.
Well, yay for fucking America, no longer home of the free, too busy being home of the me.
Selfish ass bastards that don't give a shit about no one is what's wrong with America.
>>>It's a meta-stake of sorts, a stake the reader gets - which character should I avoid becoming invested in or care about? What if that person dies next?
>>>The issue here is that it's dangerous too, I feel, because this can also make the reader averse to actually becoming invested in the story. So it's a risky gamble, isn't it?
Why? Because someone's feeling might get hurt?
No one ever gave a shit about my feelings.
Shit happens. Grow the fuck up.
If readers can't take the death of a fictional character, well, than they are some real big deep shit when death comes rolling into their real life ain't they?
Death happens.
And the world is fucked up lately.
Have you seen how young people talk about death?
"My gran passed last night."
"Had to put my dog down."
"Put my cat to sleep."
Fucking pansies.
Your gran passed? Passed what? A Kidney stone? Did she drive passed the barn? You fucking retard. Learn how to use words. Your so used to every word out of your mouth being a lie that you can't even speak the truth when your grandmother died. Yeah, I said it. Your grandmother died, grow some balls and say it.
You murdered your dog and your cat. Stop lying about what you did and speak the truth for once in your life. Your a murderer. Admit it. Stop trying to make it sown nice, They ain't down stairs and they ain't sleeping.
Learn to fucking use words accurately.
Death isn't something to hide. But that's exactly what's happening.
No even has funerals any more. They shove dead bodies in a fucking stove and put the ashes in a jar.
So scared to face death, they can't even bury their dead.
What the fuck happened to this world.
We live in a society today, that hides from death. They only want to see the roses.
You all need a fucking reality check. This whole fucking planet needs a reality check.
And we authors, it's our job to show society for the fucked up place it is.
Far too many authors today, write for the market.
Not enough authors write from the heart.
Too many authors are far too worried they won't get sales, they won't make money, they won't get fame, if they upset anyone, make someone cry, break a poor little snowflake.
Fuck the snowflakes.
People don't want to feel anything any more.
Every thing must be sweet plumpkin lovey doveies.
Well I don't write what the world wants to see, I write the world for what t is.
We live in a dark world full of pain and suffering and no cares about any ne else. So that's what I write. I write pain. I write suffering. I write people hurting while surrounded by millions of other people who don't give a shit.
I write rape.
I write suicide.
I write death.
I write murder.
Why?
Because I write what I know.
I know pain.
I know suffering.
I know rape.
I know suicide.
I know death.
I know murder.
And I wrap it up in pretty pink covers to mock the word's rose colored glasses. To mock the reader who buys a book for it's cover, and thinks they will get pretty pink rose colored lovey dovys and than they read the words inside, and find it dripping with darkness, suicide, murder, rape, and all the evils that are humanity.
>>>It's a meta-stake of sorts, a stake the reader gets - which character should I avoid becoming invested in or care about? What if that person dies next?
>>>The issue here is that it's dangerous too, I feel, because this can also make the reader averse to actually becoming invested in the story. So it's a risky gamble, isn't it?
The world ain't nice.
The world ain't pretty.
The I write the world the way it is.
I don't write happy endings.
Characters die.
Characters are murdered.
Characters, main characters even, commit suicide.
Murderers walk free.
Families see no justice.
Look at Quaraun. He overdoses himself, slices his wrists, how many times has he tried to kill himself? I'm the author and I don't even know.
Look at BoomFuzzy, his suicide was detailed out line by line, step by step, the description of his death goes on for 8 pages in bloody detail.
I don't sugar coat anything.
Don't be fooled by the pink covers. The Quaraun series has won awards for being among the darkest novels ever published. It's one of the few series so dark, so disturbing, so gory, so bloody, so focused on putting suicide in your face that the American government issued a court order declaring I was required to put M18+ book rating on the cover.
And if the reader can't stomach it, will that's their problem, not mine.
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FAQs: When you say to read in order to learn what good writing looks like, but than you say don't read anything self published or written in the past 50 years, what than do you suggest I read to learn what good writing looks like?
I recommend 3 things.
* 1: I recommend the Reading/Literature TextBooks of the ABeka Grammar series that I previously mentioned above. I also recommend reading EVERY PAGE IN ORDER of EVERY volume of the series starting with Grade 4 and ending with Grade 12. (Those books are listed below).
* 2: WELL WRITTEN classic literature. (Listed in the second column below)
* 3: American and World History TextBooks. (Listed in the third column below)
* 4: Science TextBooks. (Listed in the 4th column below)
These are the books I personally read to see/examine how good quality writing looks on the published page and teach myself to improve my own writing by mimicking the writing style seen in the books listed below.
These books are how I taught myself to read and write. I was not allowed to go to school and spent 27 years of my life, since I was 8 years old, locked in a cage, tortured, beaten, and starved.
As an adult I used these books to teach myself as I had no other way to gain an education.
Again, not every book is listed, as there are too many to list them all, but enough are listed to get you started.
* 1: I recommend the Reading/Literature TextBooks of the ABeka Grammar series
* 2: WELL WRITTEN classic literature.
A note here... I make it a point to read no fewer than 100 books a year - 2 books a week. Some years I have as many as 300 books by reading a book almost every day. I own more than 300,000 books and have read more then 10,000 of them with a goal to attempt to read them all. As such, I can't even begin to list anything close to all of the books I read. Though I will point out 90% of them were written before 1950 and all of them are hardcover or paperback, not one of my 300k books is an ebook or an audio book. I don't read ebooks nor do I listen to audio books.
* 3: American and World History TextBooks.
Yes, I DO classify reading History and Geography books as good, quality recommended daily light reading that should be done in between regular novel and short story reading.
It is my belief that when one ONLY reads fiction, ones view of what is goof writing becomes warped. Thus I recommend reading historical documents, including to go to your local museums to read important documents about your town/state/region. This is especially important if you, like me, write local tales, stories set in your home town/state/region.
This is also why I have such a strong grasp on describing the places Quaraun travels to in the novels I write, without my ever having set foot outside of Maine.
* 4: Science TextBooks.
Yes. Once again, like with History and Geography, I DO classify reading Science books as good, quality recommended daily light reading that should be done in between regular novel and short story reading.
I firmly believe that if one does not have a working knowledge of the world around you, not just it's history and geography, but also it's plants, animals, rocks, functions, ad place in the universe, that one will not be able to successfully write descriptions of the world character in your novels live in, because without knowing how your own world exists, how can you even begin to know how to create a fictional world?
As such, I put reading science books as highly important for anyone seeking to write novels.
And again, as I was not allowed to go to school and was locked in a cage from the time I was 8 until I was 31, I did not start studying science until I was an adult, and as such, I started with Grade K5 and went all the way through to Grade 12, doing so in 3 years, so that I could apply for a GED which I got when I was 37. The Science books listed below are the ones I used to do that with, and again mostly by ABeka as I absolutely refuse to use books with frutie tuttie Evolution or Big Bang hocus pocus mumbo jumbo.
Also, I quickly discovered that as young as 4th grade, vile degradations of sex perversion and utterly disgusting lessons about sex are in Science books published by perverse public school textbook publishers, so I burned them all in the wood stove I will NOT recommend any of the horrifically horrendous, disgustedly perverted sex fill Science books published by non-Christian companies.
It's no wonder the American population has children so perverse and degraded, when they stoop so low as to spend more than 75% of their science textbooks being devoted to the vile disgusting top of sex education. It's utterly deplorable. Sex has no business being in schools. With that kind of filth being taught to children it's no wonder American's gone to shit.
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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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