How do you all name your characters?

If you have followed my website for any length of time, you are by now aware that I like using Reddit to get my article ideas. I search reddit for questions and then I answer them, here, though not often on Reddit. While I post answers here on my website daily, often 3 or more a day, I only post answers on Reddit once, maybe twice, a week, if that often. I dislike the toxic vibes of Reddit comment sections and so avoid dealing with them, by writing up very long comments and then NOT posting the comment on Reddit, but rather instead posting it here for you. my readers, because I know you guys are not toxic. And so, that is what this page is, yet again, today. I have found a question on reddit and I am going to answer it here instead of answering it o Reddit. Enjoy!

How do you all name your characters?

Today, let's do something a little bit different. Starting last week of July 2023, I have been testing out ChatGPT on my website. Today, let's see what ChatGPT has to say about this Reddit post.

I'm going to start out by answering the post myself, and then afterwards, I am going to paste the question into ChatGPT and see how similar or different AI's answer is from mine.

How do you all name your characters?


My answer to  How do you all name your characters?

How do you all name your characters
by u/alice_marry_jane in writing


Don't know if this is the kind of advice you are looking for or not, but, I will tell you what I do and perhaps it'll give you some ideas for what you can do?

My system for naming things is stupidly simple: I just call it whatever it is.

If you look at the names of places in my novels and short stories, it's pretty easy to see how I come up with names:

* **Silent Moor** = a vast salt marsh (aka a moor), where no one lives, and the only sound is the wind and birds. *(It's also the real world Scarborough March in Maine, you can actually visit it.)*

* **Fire Mountain** = a volcano

* **Mt. DemonTooth** = the tallest mountain in the world, which is white with snow, and it tall and pointy, shaped a lot like a fang

* **The Mushroom Forest** = A vast swampy forest where giant mushrooms grow.

* **[The Giant Caterpiller](https://www.reddit.com/r/SilentMoor/comments/y7m0xn/magictober_2022day_2_magical_monsterbeast/)** = A caterpillar. It's huge. It grows to the size of blue whales.

* **The Swamp of Death** = It’s a swamp. A lot of people have died there. A swamp where Kelpies live and kill and eat travelers foolish enough to walk through it at night.

* **The God Forsaken City** = a city that is rife with crime, gangs, and black market dealers

* **Crystal Cave** = A big cave that has lots of crystals growing on it's walls

* **Fairy Wine** = A bright green wine, made by Faeries. It causes hallucinations when drunk by Humans.

* **Fairy Cakes** = Cakes made by Faeries.

* **The Glass Forest aka BabbaYagga's Glass Forest** = It's a Forest. The trees are made of glass. BabbaYagga lives there. And I didn't create this one. It literally comes straight out of the Babba Yagga aka Hansel and Gretel folktale, which stated Hansel and Gretel found BabbaYagga's chicken footed gingerbread house situated in a glass forest.

* **The River Boat Man Woman** = A mysterious hooded character, who shows up in the series from time to time. No one knows if it is a man or a woman. They drive a river boat and take other characters across the river.

* **BoomFuzzy's Gingerbread House** = It's a house. It's made out of gingerbread. A character named BoomFuzzy lives there.

* **[BoomFuzzy the Unicorn, Lich King of Fire Mountain](https://www.reddit.com/r/SilentMoor/comments/y7jub0/magictober_2022day_1_villain_to_mages_or_a/)** = A Kelpie. Often mistaken for a Unicorn. He's a Lich. He's also the King of the Realm of Fae. He lives on Fire Mountain. Awh, look at the cute FUZZY little Shetland pony, can I keep him? BOOM, he eats you.

* **The Elf Eater of Pepper Valley** = A character who has a reputation for eating Elves. He lives in Pepper Valley.

* **GhoulSpawn** = A character who is the only son of The Ghoul King aka he is the spawn of The Ghoul, thus his name is GhoulSpawn.

* **The Pink Necromancer** = He's a necromancer. He always wears pink. He is also a silk weaver and silk merchant, who specializes in weaving enchanted pink silk, and sewing it into enchanted magic items which can aid in communication with the dead. He's also the main character.

* **The Sacred Pink JellyFish** = A tiny pink JellyFish, thousands of years old, believed to be immortal, whom has mind boggling mega OP god powers and is capable of destroying entire solar systems with nothing but the words: "I wish..." She crawled up the nose of The Pink Necromancer and now lives burrowed in his brain.

* **The Cult of The Sacred Pink JellyFish** = A cult led by Squid Headed aliens from Neptune's Moon. They worship The Sacred Pink JellyFish and believe she is the Mother God, the creator of all life.

* **Pepper Valley** = A big valley. Lots of wild peppermint plants grow there. Lots of wild peppers grow there. Lots of wild peppercorn grows there.

* **The Twighlight Manor** = A haunted manor house built by Faeries. It can only be seen by Humans at twilight each night. The rest of the day/night it can not be seen by Human eyes.

See.

Simple.

I call a thing, whatever it is.

Yeah. I just name stuff by what they look like or what they have.

Why?

My world exists for a series of books to be written about it and set within it. This means that readers are well going to read it.

* Readers want to enjoy the story.

* Readers do not want to be confused by gibberish nonsense words they can not pronounce.

* Readers get frustrated by authors who try to be clever and big brained.

* Readers don't care about the world and what things are named.

* Readers care about the main character and his well being.

* Readers WILL stop reading, not finish, and refuse to buy further books from the author in question, if the names of characters and places are too difficult to pronounce; meaning if you plan to make an income from your books, you are shooting yourself in the foot every time you make up a newly invented word which doesn't exist in the real world.

* I write Romance, yes, obviously it's Fantasy/Paranormal Romance, seeing how there are Faeries and monsters and such in the names mentioned above, but it's still capital R, Romance first and foremost, regardless of the Fantasy setting. And let's face it, Romance readers like simple things, simple names, because they want to relax while reading in bed or reading on the beach… they do NOT want a book which jarrs them with nonsensical gibberish sounding names.

* I write Gay Furry/Poly Yaoi/Gay Harem Romance, which caters to a very small, but very specific hair fetish niche, and a readers in this niche are more concerned with descriptions of fluffy fur, gleaming horns, fluttery wings, and shinning cloven hooves, then they are trying to figure out what the fuck Blibertyfloorbpglooppebick means. A character with a simple name like Mark, Bob, or Wade, gets more reader love than characters named Fizbanbubbernicker, Moljortyipsnierka, or Lajhkiellaia. Readers want simple names that they can stash away unobtrusively in the back of the mind, not names that bring them out of immersion and force them to spend twenty minutes trying to figure out how the fuck to pronounce it.

* Readers want to flow through the story without breaking immersion.

*(continued because I ran out of room)*

Every time a word shows up which the reader does not know, immersion is broken while they stop reading to try to figure out how to pronounce the new word.

Even though my main character is an Elf and he and the other characters only speak Elvish, my readers are Humans who can only read English.

Real world languages usually are just calling a thing a thing. For example the word Mississippi means "big muddy river". Thus the phrase "The Mississippi River" is literally "The Big Muddy River River". If you start looking at real world maps, you will quickly find that names of places are not actual names, but rather just a descriptor of a thing, calling that thing, exactly whatever it is.

So, my readers are made aware that the main character is speaking in a language not English:

>>>Quaraun stopped walking.
>
>>> "Look at that," the old Elf said in Elvish to his companions.

A phrase such as that, shows up in the first paragraph on the first page, alerting the reader, right out the gate, that everything in this story is happening from an Elf's perspective and conversations are happening in the Elf language, so obviously place names are going to be Elvish as well. But everything is translated into English for the sake of the reader, including names of places.

In other words, I want readers to be so immersed in the story that they feel like they are the ones walking through my world. And don't want to break that immersion by slapping them in the face with a wet fish.

And that is exactly what conlang does to readers. They are reading along, then suddenly SLAP the big floppy wet fish of a gibbering word they can't pronounce hits them in the face and they are rudely pulled out of the story, staring at this word and asking themselves: "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" They put the book down to see if the word is in the dictionary. But being a made up word, it's not, so now the reader is confused and frustrated and immersion is gone.

Yes, I created three different conlangs and had fun doing it. But my readers are not Star Trek fans devoted to learning Klingon. My readers are people who speak English, read English, and want to be entertained by a good story, not frustrated by illkygfgj jhgc rewfgkk hgfcjh tewsgu jhgvdffh.

But, I live in Maine, and set my books in Maine and so I think Maine is great for getting names.

I straight up just use Maine towns unchanged.

Hope Cemetery in Wells, Maine is where I get a ton of names for characters too. Old Maine names from the 1600s are wonderful.

My books are set in the Maritime. Pretty much every town from Ivujivik, Quebec to Old Orchard Beach, Maine has appeared **[in my world](https://amzn.to/3SaH9k2)** at one point or another. If you're local you probably know me, everyone does, *(I'm EelKat on most places outside of Reddit)* or **[my rhinestoned Volvo or my neon pink motorhome.](https://www.eelkat.com/images/eelkat-marcy-no-hurry-dazz-razz.jpg)**

And if you ask why Maine? Why not some other state?

Every story I write is set in Maine, I write it on location. Like a lot are set in Rapid Ray's or The Golden Rooster, both in Saco, and I'm there in the diner eating garden omelets while I write.

The bulk of the Quaraun books actually take place in Pepperell Square in Saco, Maine, but it's called Pepper Valley in the books. I mentioned Pepper Valley above, remember? It's a real place. You can actually visit it. It's just called Pepperell Mill Valley in real life. Name slightly changed for the books. But yeah, if you start comparing the names of my places to names if real Maine towns, you start to see a lot of similarities.

Reimaging Maine towns as 40th century zombie infested wastelands is awesome fun. I love basing all my books off of Maine and using weird Maine town names. Maine is great for inspiration.

But if you look at Maine place names you start to realize they are stupidly simple. Old Orchard Beach for example is a beach with an apple orchard on it. Cranberry Cove is a cove where cranberries grow. Yeah, Mainers ain't too original with naming towns.

But, you don't have to pick Maine. The only reason I use Maine is because I live in Maine and it's easy for me to drive to the town and see it in person and get a feel for what it's really like before I write about it. You can do the same thing for any state or any region, no matter where you live. If you live in California, take inspiration from towns in California that you can visit, walk through. If you live in Japan, pick towns in Japan.

The point is, you don't have to look too far from your own backyard, to find inspiration when it comes to naming things or getting story ideas.

So wherever you live, it's going to be a great source of inspiration. All you have to do is go outside and walk around your neighborhood looking at street names, business names, names on mailboxes. Stop into a local gas station and get a local road map, look at the names of campgrounds and rivers and ponds in your area.

Just hop in your car and drive up and down local streets and local towns, pay attention to names on street signs, buildings, businesses, drive through cemeteries, write down any interesting names you see. I do this every week, and my dog loves it. He gets to go on car tides, he gets to walk on new streets, pee on new posts, bark at new dogs… we have loads of fun doing this every week.

**The tl;dr of it is this: Why bring the reader out of immersion by saying the foreign language word Mississippi, when you can translate that word to its English meaning The Big Muddy River? And now the reader is not confused by a word they don't understand and they get a description of what the river looks like at the same time.**

Well, that’s my way of thinking at least. So, no overthinking of names from me. I just call it whatever it is. Hey look, there’s a big mountain, well, now that’s it’s name Big Mountain. I’d rather spend more time on the fun stuff, like the cultures and magic system, than waste time trying to think up names, so I’m all for overly simplified names.

Hope this helps. Good luck with your project!

Now Let's see What chatGPT Has To Say About:
How do you all name your characters?

How do you all name your characters
by u/alice_marry_jane in writing

The Prompt:

You are a famous, multi-published author. A new, you writer has come to you with the following question:

"How do you all name your characters? I am working on this book everything is sorted the character designs and the outline of the story. I just can't give them names god!! It is has been 3 days of brainstorming to give them names."

...what do you say to them?


ChatGPT's answer:

Ah, my fellow aspiring writer, fear not! Naming characters can indeed be a delightful challenge, but worry not, for I have some tips to help you conquer this creative quest.

First and foremost, take a deep breath and remember that the perfect names will come to you in due time. Patience is a virtue, and sometimes the best ideas need a little extra time to bloom.

To start, consider the personalities and traits of your characters. Are they strong and courageous, gentle and nurturing, or perhaps mischievous and whimsical? Let their qualities inspire you, and play around with names that reflect their essence.

Next, think about the world in which your story is set. Is it a fantastical realm, a cozy village, or a bustling city? The setting can often lend a helping hand in choosing names that fit harmoniously into the narrative.

Don't be afraid to explore different cultures and languages for inspiration. Names from various regions can add richness and diversity to your story. Browse baby name websites, historical references, or even mythology for unique and meaningful options.

And remember, simplicity can be powerful too. Sometimes a simple, relatable name can resonate deeply with readers and make a character feel more genuine.

If you're still feeling stuck, try writing a list of potential names and see how they feel when you say them out loud. Sometimes hearing the names spoken can help you connect with them on a deeper level.

Lastly, don't hesitate to ask for input from friends, family, or fellow writers. A fresh perspective might unveil the perfect name you've been searching for.

The journey of naming your characters is an adventure in itself, and it's okay to take your time. Let the process be part of the joy of creating your story. So, my dear writer, stay curious, keep your heart open to inspiration, and soon enough, the names will dance their way into your imagination. Happy writing! 📚✨🌟


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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 writing, self-publishing, character creation, and 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.


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





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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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