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by Kate Walker on November 17th, 2005

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I kind of have to wonder: What would be the implication if we met aliens from another planet and they WERE the beings that the ancients called “God”?

What if God was an Alien?

Think about it:

1.) Alien Abductees almost never remember what happened to them.
2.) Faerie Abductees almost always remember every detail of what happened to them.
3.) God encounters and Angel sightings rarely reported being abducted.

Of course than there is this to consider:

1.) Angel encounters happened since pre-history, and were a common daily occurrence in most cultures, but suddenly came to an abrupt world wide halt in the 1500’s and have been very rare since

2.) Faerie encounters and Faerie abductions started in almost as soon as Angel encounters stopped. They happened on a daily basis in nearly every town in every culture across the entire globe. And though extraordinarily common through out the 1600s – 1800s, stopped abruptly in the 1940’s and became very rare after World War II.

3.) The first Alien Encounters were reported in the 1870’s, but were very rare and did not become wide spread across the globe until the 1950’s. Alien abductions and encounters today occur on a daily basis in nearly every city in every country of every continent.

Do you see it? Alien abductions are not a new thing, they just have a new name. I can see the scientific advancement in the abductors’ technology at work here:

1.) Early encounters with beings “from the Heavens” were simple encounters with messages of love and peace and good tidings of great joy being told. The people shared the message, saying “God” gave it too them and than started religions which resulted in fighting, hate, wars and bloodshed.
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00000IO3U&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
2.) Later encounters with beings “from the Air” involved kidnappings but with clear memories of such events. They spoke of love and peace, while showing gruesome playacted images of war and bloodshed. Abductees were returned with instructions not to tell what they saw in the homes and lands of the abductors and often died a few days after telling about their experience.

3.) Current encounters with beings “from outer space” involve more advanced kidnappings in which an attempt is made to erase the abductees memory of the events, thus preventing them from telling anyone what they saw, but suddenly they are going around preach veganism, to take care of the environment, love and peace, and change their lives to make a war on war. They don’t know why they are compelled to go on this eco-green-living rampage, and they end only ever remember being abducted through hypnotism.

It seems that these “Beings From the Sky” have always been with us, have always had a message of love and peace, and that as their technology advances, we change our descriptions of them.

Is it not odd that the ancients often encountered angels, messengers of God, holy spirits, and demons, but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of faerie, trickster, and wraith encounters started to occur?

Is it not odd that the medieval, renaissance, and Victorian man often encountered faeries, tricksters, and wraiths but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of aliens and UFO encounters started to occur?

People often ask:

Why don’t angels still visit us today?

Why doesn’t God still come down and talk to people face to face?

Why does no one today see fairies anymore?

Why are there so many alien sightings today when there never was any before?

I ask in return to those questions:

Who says angels no longer visit the Earth? What are angels, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says faeries are no longer seen? What are faeries, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says aliens did not visit the Earth long ago? What are aliens, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Were the angel-god-demon encounters of the Bible, really any different from the faerie encounters of the old days? And were both of these really any different from the UFO encounters of today?
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0810932741&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
I do not think that these encounters are any different now than they were hundreds or thousands of years ago. We as Humans have been visited for centuries, by astral beings, the only thing that has changed is that we have over the years and across the cultures, identified these beings by different names. Originally we called these visitors Gods, than angels, than demons, than faeries, now aliens, and who knows what new names we will call them by in future generations. But just because we change what we call them, does not mean to say that they ever have or ever will stop visiting us.

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I kind of have to wonder: What would be the implication if we met aliens from another planet and they WERE the beings that the ancients called “God”?

What if God was an Alien?

Think about it:

1.) Alien Abductees almost never remember what happened to them.
2.) Faerie Abductees almost always remember every detail of what happened to them.
3.) God encounters and Angel sightings rarely reported being abducted.

Of course than there is this to consider:

1.) Angel encounters happened since pre-history, and were a common daily occurrence in most cultures, but suddenly came to an abrupt world wide halt in the 1500’s and have been very rare since

2.) Faerie encounters and Faerie abductions started in almost as soon as Angel encounters stopped. They happened on a daily basis in nearly every town in every culture across the entire globe. And though extraordinarily common through out the 1600s – 1800s, stopped abruptly in the 1940’s and became very rare after World War II.

3.) The first Alien Encounters were reported in the 1870’s, but were very rare and did not become wide spread across the globe until the 1950’s. Alien abductions and encounters today occur on a daily basis in nearly every city in every country of every continent.

Do you see it? Alien abductions are not a new thing, they just have a new name. I can see the scientific advancement in the abductors’ technology at work here:

1.) Early encounters with beings “from the Heavens” were simple encounters with messages of love and peace and good tidings of great joy being told. The people shared the message, saying “God” gave it too them and than started religions which resulted in fighting, hate, wars and bloodshed.
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00000IO3U&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
2.) Later encounters with beings “from the Air” involved kidnappings but with clear memories of such events. They spoke of love and peace, while showing gruesome playacted images of war and bloodshed. Abductees were returned with instructions not to tell what they saw in the homes and lands of the abductors and often died a few days after telling about their experience.

3.) Current encounters with beings “from outer space” involve more advanced kidnappings in which an attempt is made to erase the abductees memory of the events, thus preventing them from telling anyone what they saw, but suddenly they are going around preach veganism, to take care of the environment, love and peace, and change their lives to make a war on war. They don’t know why they are compelled to go on this eco-green-living rampage, and they end only ever remember being abducted through hypnotism.

It seems that these “Beings From the Sky” have always been with us, have always had a message of love and peace, and that as their technology advances, we change our descriptions of them.

Is it not odd that the ancients often encountered angels, messengers of God, holy spirits, and demons, but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of faerie, trickster, and wraith encounters started to occur?

Is it not odd that the medieval, renaissance, and Victorian man often encountered faeries, tricksters, and wraiths but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of aliens and UFO encounters started to occur?

People often ask:

Why don’t angels still visit us today?

Why doesn’t God still come down and talk to people face to face?

Why does no one today see fairies anymore?

Why are there so many alien sightings today when there never was any before?

I ask in return to those questions:

Who says angels no longer visit the Earth? What are angels, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says faeries are no longer seen? What are faeries, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says aliens did not visit the Earth long ago? What are aliens, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Were the angel-god-demon encounters of the Bible, really any different from the faerie encounters of the old days? And were both of these really any different from the UFO encounters of today?
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0810932741&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
I do not think that these encounters are any different now than they were hundreds or thousands of years ago. We as Humans have been visited for centuries, by astral beings, the only thing that has changed is that we have over the years and across the cultures, identified these beings by different names. Originally we called these visitors Gods, than angels, than demons, than faeries, now aliens, and who knows what new names we will call them by in future generations. But just because we change what we call them, does not mean to say that they ever have or ever will stop visiting us.

http://twitter.com/EelKat
http://www.facebook.com/EelKat
http://eknano.blogspot.com
http://eelkat.wordpress.com
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/132659
http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/user/132659

Due to the resent rise (yet again) of the demon possession and witchcraft accusations and questions from non church members, asking me what the church members talking about, I have decided to write a book about Etiole, who he is, how I met him, why people started calling me a witch, and what these religion crazed nuts did to me as a result of their unfounded fears of Etiole. This blog will contain the first drafts of it. I’ll be posting them over the next month or so. I’m just plain tired of being called a witch, I’m thinking of renaming this blog to make the accusations, just to spite them. Seeing a UFO and meeting an alien-faerie-angel being DOES NOT MAKE ME A WITCH!!!! Well, anyways, here’s my latest addition into this year’s NaNoWriMo contest, I know I’m supposed to be writing a fiction novel, not a non-fiction autobiography, but whatever, I just need these people to stop accusing me of demon possession and witchcraft and the only way I can see to do that is to tell the world why it is they are saying these things about me, so continueing from where I left on in my last NaNoWriMo post, here is todays NaNoWriMo addition:

UPDATE: February 5, 2010: It’s Published!

The contents of this blog, are taken from the second draft of the book “For Fear of Little Men” by Wendy C. Allen, and reprinted here with permission.

Edit February 17, 2009: Parts of this book can now be seen on a Squidoo lens.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

. . .

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by Kate Walker on November 17th, 2005

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I kind of have to wonder: What would be the implication if we met aliens from another planet and they WERE the beings that the ancients called “God”?

What if God was an Alien?

Think about it:

1.) Alien Abductees almost never remember what happened to them.
2.) Faerie Abductees almost always remember every detail of what happened to them.
3.) God encounters and Angel sightings rarely reported being abducted.

Of course than there is this to consider:

1.) Angel encounters happened since pre-history, and were a common daily occurrence in most cultures, but suddenly came to an abrupt world wide halt in the 1500’s and have been very rare since

2.) Faerie encounters and Faerie abductions started in almost as soon as Angel encounters stopped. They happened on a daily basis in nearly every town in every culture across the entire globe. And though extraordinarily common through out the 1600s – 1800s, stopped abruptly in the 1940’s and became very rare after World War II.

3.) The first Alien Encounters were reported in the 1870’s, but were very rare and did not become wide spread across the globe until the 1950’s. Alien abductions and encounters today occur on a daily basis in nearly every city in every country of every continent.

Do you see it? Alien abductions are not a new thing, they just have a new name. I can see the scientific advancement in the abductors’ technology at work here:

1.) Early encounters with beings “from the Heavens” were simple encounters with messages of love and peace and good tidings of great joy being told. The people shared the message, saying “God” gave it too them and than started religions which resulted in fighting, hate, wars and bloodshed.
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00000IO3U&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
2.) Later encounters with beings “from the Air” involved kidnappings but with clear memories of such events. They spoke of love and peace, while showing gruesome playacted images of war and bloodshed. Abductees were returned with instructions not to tell what they saw in the homes and lands of the abductors and often died a few days after telling about their experience.

3.) Current encounters with beings “from outer space” involve more advanced kidnappings in which an attempt is made to erase the abductees memory of the events, thus preventing them from telling anyone what they saw, but suddenly they are going around preach veganism, to take care of the environment, love and peace, and change their lives to make a war on war. They don’t know why they are compelled to go on this eco-green-living rampage, and they end only ever remember being abducted through hypnotism.

It seems that these “Beings From the Sky” have always been with us, have always had a message of love and peace, and that as their technology advances, we change our descriptions of them.

Is it not odd that the ancients often encountered angels, messengers of God, holy spirits, and demons, but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of faerie, trickster, and wraith encounters started to occur?

Is it not odd that the medieval, renaissance, and Victorian man often encountered faeries, tricksters, and wraiths but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of aliens and UFO encounters started to occur?

People often ask:

Why don’t angels still visit us today?

Why doesn’t God still come down and talk to people face to face?

Why does no one today see fairies anymore?

Why are there so many alien sightings today when there never was any before?

I ask in return to those questions:

Who says angels no longer visit the Earth? What are angels, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says faeries are no longer seen? What are faeries, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says aliens did not visit the Earth long ago? What are aliens, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Were the angel-god-demon encounters of the Bible, really any different from the faerie encounters of the old days? And were both of these really any different from the UFO encounters of today?
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0810932741&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
I do not think that these encounters are any different now than they were hundreds or thousands of years ago. We as Humans have been visited for centuries, by astral beings, the only thing that has changed is that we have over the years and across the cultures, identified these beings by different names. Originally we called these visitors Gods, than angels, than demons, than faeries, now aliens, and who knows what new names we will call them by in future generations. But just because we change what we call them, does not mean to say that they ever have or ever will stop visiting us.

http://twitter.com/EelKat
http://www.facebook.com/EelKat
http://eknano.blogspot.com
http://eelkat.wordpress.com
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/132659
http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/user/132659

Due to the resent rise (yet again) of the demon possession and witchcraft accusations and questions from non church members, asking me what the church members talking about, I have decided to write a book about Etiole, who he is, how I met him, why people started calling me a witch, and what these religion crazed nuts did to me as a result of their unfounded fears of Etiole. This blog will contain the first drafts of it. I’ll be posting them over the next month or so. I’m just plain tired of being called a witch, I’m thinking of renaming this blog to make the accusations, just to spite them. Seeing a UFO and meeting an alien-faerie-angel being DOES NOT MAKE ME A WITCH!!!! Well, anyways, here’s my latest addition into this year’s NaNoWriMo contest, I know I’m supposed to be writing a fiction novel, not a non-fiction autobiography, but whatever, I just need these people to stop accusing me of demon possession and witchcraft and the only way I can see to do that is to tell the world why it is they are saying these things about me, so continueing from where I left on in my last NaNoWriMo post, here is todays NaNoWriMo addition:

UPDATE: February 5, 2010: It’s Published!

The contents of this blog, are taken from the second draft of the book “For Fear of Little Men” by Wendy C. Allen, and reprinted here with permission.

Edit February 17, 2009: Parts of this book can now be seen on a Squidoo lens.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

. . .

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:
.
.

.

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I kind of have to wonder: What would be the implication if we met aliens from another planet and they WERE the beings that the ancients called “God”?

What if God was an Alien?

Think about it:

1.) Alien Abductees almost never remember what happened to them.
2.) Faerie Abductees almost always remember every detail of what happened to them.
3.) God encounters and Angel sightings rarely reported being abducted.

Of course than there is this to consider:

1.) Angel encounters happened since pre-history, and were a common daily occurrence in most cultures, but suddenly came to an abrupt world wide halt in the 1500’s and have been very rare since

2.) Faerie encounters and Faerie abductions started in almost as soon as Angel encounters stopped. They happened on a daily basis in nearly every town in every culture across the entire globe. And though extraordinarily common through out the 1600s – 1800s, stopped abruptly in the 1940’s and became very rare after World War II.

3.) The first Alien Encounters were reported in the 1870’s, but were very rare and did not become wide spread across the globe until the 1950’s. Alien abductions and encounters today occur on a daily basis in nearly every city in every country of every continent.

Do you see it? Alien abductions are not a new thing, they just have a new name. I can see the scientific advancement in the abductors’ technology at work here:

1.) Early encounters with beings “from the Heavens” were simple encounters with messages of love and peace and good tidings of great joy being told. The people shared the message, saying “God” gave it too them and than started religions which resulted in fighting, hate, wars and bloodshed.
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00000IO3U&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
2.) Later encounters with beings “from the Air” involved kidnappings but with clear memories of such events. They spoke of love and peace, while showing gruesome playacted images of war and bloodshed. Abductees were returned with instructions not to tell what they saw in the homes and lands of the abductors and often died a few days after telling about their experience.

3.) Current encounters with beings “from outer space” involve more advanced kidnappings in which an attempt is made to erase the abductees memory of the events, thus preventing them from telling anyone what they saw, but suddenly they are going around preach veganism, to take care of the environment, love and peace, and change their lives to make a war on war. They don’t know why they are compelled to go on this eco-green-living rampage, and they end only ever remember being abducted through hypnotism.

It seems that these “Beings From the Sky” have always been with us, have always had a message of love and peace, and that as their technology advances, we change our descriptions of them.

Is it not odd that the ancients often encountered angels, messengers of God, holy spirits, and demons, but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of faerie, trickster, and wraith encounters started to occur?

Is it not odd that the medieval, renaissance, and Victorian man often encountered faeries, tricksters, and wraiths but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of aliens and UFO encounters started to occur?

People often ask:

Why don’t angels still visit us today?

Why doesn’t God still come down and talk to people face to face?

Why does no one today see fairies anymore?

Why are there so many alien sightings today when there never was any before?

I ask in return to those questions:

Who says angels no longer visit the Earth? What are angels, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says faeries are no longer seen? What are faeries, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says aliens did not visit the Earth long ago? What are aliens, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Were the angel-god-demon encounters of the Bible, really any different from the faerie encounters of the old days? And were both of these really any different from the UFO encounters of today?
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0810932741&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
I do not think that these encounters are any different now than they were hundreds or thousands of years ago. We as Humans have been visited for centuries, by astral beings, the only thing that has changed is that we have over the years and across the cultures, identified these beings by different names. Originally we called these visitors Gods, than angels, than demons, than faeries, now aliens, and who knows what new names we will call them by in future generations. But just because we change what we call them, does not mean to say that they ever have or ever will stop visiting us.

http://twitter.com/EelKat
http://www.facebook.com/EelKat
http://eknano.blogspot.com
http://eelkat.wordpress.com
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/132659
http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/user/132659

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I kind of have to wonder: What would be the implication if we met aliens from another planet and they WERE the beings that the ancients called “God”?

What if God was an Alien?

Think about it:

1.) Alien Abductees almost never remember what happened to them.
2.) Faerie Abductees almost always remember every detail of what happened to them.
3.) God encounters and Angel sightings rarely reported being abducted.

Of course than there is this to consider:

1.) Angel encounters happened since pre-history, and were a common daily occurrence in most cultures, but suddenly came to an abrupt world wide halt in the 1500’s and have been very rare since

2.) Faerie encounters and Faerie abductions started in almost as soon as Angel encounters stopped. They happened on a daily basis in nearly every town in every culture across the entire globe. And though extraordinarily common through out the 1600s – 1800s, stopped abruptly in the 1940’s and became very rare after World War II.

3.) The first Alien Encounters were reported in the 1870’s, but were very rare and did not become wide spread across the globe until the 1950’s. Alien abductions and encounters today occur on a daily basis in nearly every city in every country of every continent.

Do you see it? Alien abductions are not a new thing, they just have a new name. I can see the scientific advancement in the abductors’ technology at work here:

1.) Early encounters with beings “from the Heavens” were simple encounters with messages of love and peace and good tidings of great joy being told. The people shared the message, saying “God” gave it too them and than started religions which resulted in fighting, hate, wars and bloodshed.

2.) Later encounters with beings “from the Air” involved kidnappings but with clear memories of such events. They spoke of love and peace, while showing gruesome playacted images of war and bloodshed. Abductees were returned with instructions not to tell what they saw in the homes and lands of the abductors and often died a few days after telling about their experience.

3.) Current encounters with beings “from outer space” involve more advanced kidnappings in which an attempt is made to erase the abductees memory of the events, thus preventing them from telling anyone what they saw, but suddenly they are going around preach veganism, to take care of the environment, love and peace, and change their lives to make a war on war. They don’t know why they are compelled to go on this eco-green-living rampage, and they end only ever remember being abducted through hypnotism.

It seems that these “Beings From the Sky” have always been with us, have always had a message of love and peace, and that as their technology advances, we change our descriptions of them.

Is it not odd that the ancients often encountered angels, messengers of God, holy spirits, and demons, but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of faerie, trickster, and wraith encounters started to occur?

Is it not odd that the medieval, renaissance, and Victorian man often encountered faeries, tricksters, and wraiths but than suddenly stopped encountering them after the arrival of aliens and UFO encounters started to occur?

People often ask:

Why don’t angels still visit us today?

Why doesn’t God still come down and talk to people face to face?

Why does no one today see fairies anymore?

Why are there so many alien sightings today when there never was any before?

I ask in return to those questions:

Who says angels no longer visit the Earth? What are angels, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says faeries are no longer seen? What are faeries, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Who says aliens did not visit the Earth long ago? What are aliens, but visitors from beyond the clouds who come down from the sky?

Were the angel-god-demon encounters of the Bible, really any different from the faerie encounters of the old days? And were both of these really any different from the UFO encounters of today?

I do not think that these encounters are any different now than they were hundreds or thousands of years ago. We as Humans have been visited for centuries, by astral beings, the only thing that has changed is that we have over the years and across the cultures, identified these beings by different names. Originally we called these visitors Gods, than angels, than demons, than faeries, now aliens, and who knows what new names we will call them by in future generations. But just because we change what we call them, does not mean to say that they ever have or ever will stop visiting us.

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I think I have found the answer to why local church members and leaders call me a witch and set fire to my home.

I think I have found an answer to the vandalism, arsine, drive by shootings, witchcraft accusations, and other lesser forms of harassment that have happened at the hands of local church members these past 9 years: ***People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. -Aesop ***

In other words, my lifestyle is something they want and can not have, thus in their frustration they try to take it from me, and yet, in everything they have done, they have not, nor can not succeed. Why?

Because I unlike them live my life. I do the things I want to do, when I want to do them, how I want to do them. I am not controlled by a job or a church.

I think they feel trapped by their jobs, and trapped by their church. If they want to drop every thing and spend 10 hours on the beach, they do not have the freedom to do so, like I do.

If they want to wear 15th century ball gowns or fairy princess costumes to run to the grocery store, they can not do so, because they fear ridicule by their peers.

They have huge debts: house, cars, credit cards, bills for frivolous things. I own no man any thing.

When they burned down my house, the last thing they expected was for me to take to living under a tarp and continue on doing things no different than before. The lost of a house would have destified them, thus they thought it would me. But their fault was thinking that I care about material possessions – like they do.

I live what one woman once called: “the life of a wild and free feral child”, which she than added: “I wish I had your freedom”.

And that is what is boils down to: I have the freedom to do absolutely anything that pops into my head, something they do not have, something they want, but fear to pursue, because they are too blinded by the risks of my lifestyle to see the benefits of it. Because they can not have the freedom I have, they made (and continue to make) many attempts to take that from me. And yet they continue to fail. Why?

I will tell you why. I live my life to the letter, by Jesus’ words: To be the lily of the field. Not familiar with it? Look it up. Want to see a modern day translation of that? Watch the movie: You Can’t Take It With You.

If you have ever read Jesus’ words or watched the movie: “You Can’t Take It With You”, than you will know what I mean when I say this:

I am a lily.

Waiting for Emmett to come.

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Why I am not in church today

I can’t believe the odasoity of some people! After what Jim Thomas did to us, they have the nerve to ask us to go back to church! Jim Thomas for those who haven’t been reading my blog very long, is the Old Orchartd Beach town manager who forced us out of our home and off our land. Land that had been in our family over 300 years! Land that was settled by the original found of the Town and my several greats grandfather Thomas Rogers! Jim Thomas and Ken Shoop those greedy, high poluting, money grubing land monger bastards took everything away from us and forced us to live homeless on the streets until hud finally got us into an apartment!

We had to live on the streets in a tent for 8 months! And it wasn’t even a tent, it was a trap and so cinder block. And it was during Maines sub-zero winter of 2006 when the temp went down to -15 below zero. My fingers froze and are now stiff as a result, and I can draw any more, and it’s hell for me to pick up a pen a write now. Me and artist and writer, not only did he steel our home, he lost me my career!

People at church know about this, and yet they have the odassity to actually ask me to come back to church! Come back to church! Why, so I can sit there next to Jim Thomas? So I can meet up with him the hall? Or his croony secritary and her husband, whov’e been hounding the hell out on us? I’d have to sit for 3 hours with those thieving bastards! They stole or house. And why? What was there reason? In the words of Ken Shoop:” Because this is Old Orchard!”… huh? what? What the hell kind of a reason is that???

They tried to take our animals! My babies! My cats and dog and birds! We had fight like hell to keep them. The members of that church put us through hell and back and they expect us to want to go to church????? They did that to us and they really don’t know why I stopped going to church????

“Do you want to go to church?” oh yes, of course I’m just dieing to go back to the church that help steel our home from us. The church that seperated me from my family, and my animals, and destroied my book collection, and stole my grandmothers stamp collection, smashed my records, puverized my grandmother clock, they seperated me from my brothers and my animals and they can actually think I want anything to do with going back to church!!!!!!! …. oh yes, I’m just dieing to go back to that church! What the hell are they thinking? “but They’ve changed, they backed off”…. yeah, right, they backed off after they tforced us out on the streets and ruined my hands so I can’t draw and write anymore. They cbacked off after they got our land. Of course they backed offf. What need is there for the 2 years of harassment and vandalisim anymore now that the have the land? Answer me that one! The only way I want to go back to that church is if Jim Thomas, gets up in front of the ward and apologiges in front of his peers and prints up a public apology in at least 5 big newspapers and returns our land to us. Than and only than well I want to go back to that church, and even than I’m not sure I’ll want to go back.

All I have is this to say:

Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian anymore than sitting in a garage on Saterday makes you a car!

It is what you say, that makes you a Christian.
It is what you do, that makes you a Christian.
It is how you treat others, that makes you a Christian.
It is what is in your heart, that makes you a Christian.
It is love for one another, that makes you a Christian.

It is who you are,
not where you are,
that makes you what you are!

Why I Write Horror

It has been asked of me, more than once, by multiple peoples:

“How can someone like you, who loves peace, non-violence, and animals; how can you write the horrible things you do in your books?”

This question is most often presented after someone reads about either The Lansquin or The Red Dragon, the two vivisecting blood crazed villains from The Twighlight Manor series.

My answer to that question: As writers we write what we know. Every writer will tell you that they get their ideas from events of their own lives. I am no different than they. As my fans, friends, and family all know, I am more outspoken for animals rights than the average animal rights activist.

Ask anyone who knows me personally, and they will warn you to stay clear of that subject with me. They warn you for good reason. I was only 6 years old when I began my early protests. I lived on a chicken farm. We ate chicken. One day when I was 6 years old it occurred to me that my beloved babies in the yard and the food on the table were both called chicken, because they were in fact the very same thing. I stopped eating chicken and turkey that same day. About a year later I found out that steak was cow, and I stopped eating that as well. By the time I was 8 years old I had become a devote vegan, and have been so ever since. What does this have to do with me writing horror? I’m getting to that.

As most of you know, I had already written the first 2 volumes of The Twighlight Manor series by the time I was 8 years old. Those early stories of cute talking animals and Herbie-esce living cars, were markedly different from the later rewrites that dripped of horror and blood. Friends Are Forever, originally written in 1978, has undergone 3 major rewrites since it’s first creation, each more grim than the last. Why?

By 1982, I heard news stories of a young girl who refused to dissect frogs in science class. The school expelled her, even though she was only 12 years old. The story mesmerized me. It was one of the few times in my life that I became truly interested in watching the news. I began to tell anyone I could about the evils of frog dissection.

When I was 12 years old, I was with my mom, while she was visiting one of her Avon customers. Who was also one of Maine’s most dramatic and outspoken PETA members. I listened for 2 hours as she retold her latest adventures of rescuing a circus donkey, followed by her latest craze: she was hell bent on telling the world about the horrors of a company known as Proctor & Gamble. It was the first time I had ever heard of them. At this time, almost no one knew anything about P&G’s vivisection and Draize testing, as the horror of this fact had only been just discovered that same year. My mom and me went home that day with a carload of pamphlets about PETA and animal rights and how evil animal testing was.

Over the next few months, I sent for every free pamphlet, brochure, magazine, and catalog I could find about the animal rights movement. By the end of the year, the first revision of volume one of The Twighlight Manor series, Friends Are Forever, had been written. Into the series had been added a new set of characters. The cars were no longer living cars, but now had owners who had taken on the characteristics the cars had had. That same year I would start writing The Wild Years.

the new characters included also a new planet into The Twighlight Manor solar system: Planet Diona, and its formidable scientists who had infiltrated the earth. Testing lab scientists on Earth, were no longer humans, but now aliens. A later, rewrite would change this, and instead of animals, the alien scientist would do word for word everything that P&G did, only my scientist would do it to humans.

In 1993, The Twighlight Manor series took its final turn, becoming what it is known as today, when the addition of a prime villain known as The Lansquin was added to the series. The Lansquin was everything in my book that Proctor and Gamble was in real life. Every bloody glorified horror straight from the laboratories of Proctor & Gamble went straight into my books, under the guise of a deranged madmen bent of torturing every human to cross his path. His reason? For the good of science. For the good of mankind.

And that is how I came to write horror.

Though I write a wide range of other things, including children’s books and romance, it is for my Twighlight Manor series and it’s M rated graphic tales of horror that I am most well known. Yes, I love animals. Yes, I hate war and promote world peace. Yes, I abhor fighting and violence. And yes, I write some of the most graphic tales of gore ever written. Why? It is because I love animals and hate fighting that I write what I do: to open readers’ eyes, so that they too, may come to hate fighting and love peace. Peace for all, including peace for those who cannot speak for themselves. I speak for the animals. I write the tales they themselves cannot tell. I write in memory of those who died for the name of science, for the good of mankind. That is why I write horror, so that the animal who have died at the hands of P&G scientists, may not have died in vain.

~~Wendy.

Harassment Continues and Grows Worse by the day…

Oh, man! It’s been like a week since I was last here, sorry guys, but real life has kept me offline for a bit, the harasment has increseased at an alarming rate, as has the daily bouts of vandalism we have to content with. It’s down right sickening coming home to this every day. As usual we came home tonight to find pack-boxes now unpacked and strewn all over the yard. Once again, the vandls tore stuff out of the tent and just threw it. Stuff, like usual is broken. More items have been stolen.  This time, not only did they tear the lock off the front door, but they tore the front door off the house. They tore the door off the outhouse as well. I think today’s round of vandalism has to rank at the most destructive yet.

We still do not know who is behind this. All we do know for certain is that it is obviously someone who knows when we are and are not home and that the police well do nothing for fear of loseing there jobs as a result of threats from the town manager.

We are not gone from home on a regular schedul… one day we well leave at 7AM and get home at  noon, another day we will leave at 4PM and get home at 5PM… other times we leave at 9PM and get home around midnight… there is no set pattern, no work schedule, every day is differant, sometimes we leave in the monring, sometimes noon, sometimes  night… some times we gone 20 mins, sometimes we are gone for hours… who ever it is that is doing this vandalism, they live in seeing distanct from our comings and goings otherwise they would not know the exact time we are gone each day, and we only have 3 neighbors in seeing distance. One a peacful eldery man who I could not see doing anything like this… the others… related and one of them on the  town counsel, and works closely with the Town Manager… uh-huh! alarm bells are ringing on that one! but, as I said we have no  proof as to who is doing this, so we do not know who to sue for the damages.

~~EK

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Update on The Lockdown & More Harassment & Vandelism

We spent the last 2 days calling everyone under the sun, trying to find out what the hell is going on, but we can’t get through to anyone; they are just giving us the run around again, putting us on hold, directing our calls to someone else who in turn directs them to someone else, who has no idea why we were directed to them and hangs up with a “Sorry”.

Well, since no one well tell us what’s going on, we just went ahead and broke down the barricade. Well wonders never cease? Now that we’ve gotting back in to see the damage, I can honesty say I hope these jackasses die a long slow death. The bastards stole my grandmother’s stamp collection. They tore the pages out of a second stamp book, keeping the pages that had stamps on them. They also stole the comb my dad’s uncle brought back from PNG when he was one of the soliders who was there and discovered that people lived their back in 1937. They also stole the photos of the uncle. They smashed my other grandmother’s gold and glass anniversay clock that she brought to America with her from Germany. To top it all off the bastards took my records and it looks like they used them for frisbies, they are strewn from one end of the house to the other, several of them broken.

We still don’t know who is behind this, but who ever they are I hope they die soon, so that they well have a longer time to burn in hell.

~~EK

Update: The Stolen House of Maine

Interesting thing happened today. We got home about 2 hours earlier than usual. We may now have a suspect in for who has been moveing stuff around the yard and opening the hen gate these last couple of weeks.

For those of you who remember the “Stolen House of Maine”  Our house, the one that so long ago was the start of the years of harassment that our family has had to withstand. It all started in 2001 with a house. Our house, the one that made front page news the day we came home to find an empty lot: our house as my long time readers already know, was cut in half and than moved 50 miles away where it was sold to a man who in turn sold it to something else. This resulted in a grueling 3 year court battle between us and the pastor who stole our house: Pastor Bernard Elliot of The Arundel Christian Tabernacle. Since the court battle we had not heard from him, but today, his wife Evelyn, stopped out front of our “still houseless” yard. We do not know why she was here, she drove off when I started down the driveway to see what she wanted. It dose raise the question, of just who exactly it is behind the harassment we have recieved from our very “religious” town manager,  Jim Thomas . (and ours is not the first they have done this to, they have a long history of doing this!)

I just have to wonder why are the Elliot’s back? What do they want with us? Haven’t they done enough damage already? Why won’t they leave us alone? These people are the ones who lefts pictures of guns on our door, way back in the summer of 2002. The Elliot’s are the ones who paint balled our car. They are the ones who took an axe to signs that stood on our land. They are the ones that caused us to need police protection for 3 long and terrifying years. Three years that my family spent in such terror that we dared not go to the store, because these people were stalking us, we meet them everywhere we went. That was yearws ago. We thought they had stopped, but when they did, that’s when the town manager and his crew started harassing us instead. We had thought that the two things, these two very differant episodes of unexplained harassment had been two seperate incedents. Now it seems that they are together, one and the same that the harssment from the town has been nothing more than an extention of the harsement from the Elliot’s.

Why? Whay are they doing this? What reason could they possibly have for this torture?

pet food recall update: HUMAN FOOD BEING RECALLED!!!!!!!!!

Remember when I wrote this post and questioned what would happen; the effects of farm animals eating tainted food ; being a poultry farmer, my post focused on chicken not pork, but news that corn was now effected, and chickens eat corn one thing lead to another and I started questioning what we feed our chickens…. PORK from pigs that have eaten tainted food, has now been added to the recall!!!
Reading this post lead me to:
Pet Food Contamination Scandal Spreads to Pork, FDA Opens Criminal Investigation.

You know what this is staring to sound like? Biological warfare.

What Does “Non-Genre” Mean?

Many publications say they only accept “Non-Genre Fiction”. A common question writers ask is: “What is Non-Genre Fiction? Doesn’t all fiction have a genre?” I had just read this post and noticed a debate over what is the meaning of Genre Fiction VS Non-Genre Fiction had begun on it’s comments.  Being an editor, I think I can be of help here. So, here is my answer to that question. I hope that some of you find it helpful when submitting your future stories to publishers.When a publication says, “they’re non-genre focused”, they mean that they only want literary fiction and will automatically refuse all stories that a genre driven. A genre driven story is one that falls under the following:

Romance

Fantasy

Sci-fi

Horror

(and the many other such genres out there)

Genre driven stories are focused largely on promotion of their genre and the story focuses totally on that genre. I.e., a romance focuses on a girl’s romantic infatuation; a fantasy will focus on the life of elves wizards and he-men type characters fighting evil in a epic quest; sci-fi focuses on alien life forms traveling from one planet to the next and other such sci-fi type things; horror focuses on scaring the pants off the reader

When a publisher say “they’re non-genre focused” they want to see a slice-of-life story about the day (or week or year) in the life of so-and-so… this is what is known as non-genre or literary fiction. The story focuses on real-life type characters in real life type situations; stories that real like they could be the life of the guy next door or the girl down the road. Non-genre stories tell a story that is not dependant on a fantasy quest or the eloquent narration describing the alien landscape or the steamy sex-scenes. They simply tell a story about life and thus have no genre.

Well, that’s what I see it to mean. Feel free to comment on your own veiws as to the meaning of “non-genre”.

~~EK

Get Yourself Banned!

As you know, I finished NaNoWriMo 2006 in flying colors. My NaNo entry, “Love, Lust, Madness” is the latest addition to The Twighlight Manor series. Since than I’ve been editing and rewriting and perfecting. I have  come to a conclusion about “Love, Lust, Madness”, it’s rated M and deals with a very controversial subject. I really went out on limb with this one and now I wonder, Can I even put this thing in print? It’ll get banned before it hits the store shelves. So, for now I have put it aside to collect some dut, while I think about what to do next.

I’ve always believed that the quickest way to become famous is the write a book that the critics well ban… nothing gets your sale up like a book that is banned, it seems the harder the ban hits the more fans gobble it up… just look at the Bible and Harry Potter, the 2 most banned books in history are also the 2 with the highest sales worldwide.

Now Harry Potter has no reason to be banned, there isn’t a single bad thing in it (moral wise). On the other hand you had the Bible, a story about rape, insest, murder, pride, racial hatred, and glorification of blood and slaughter, and yet it sells millions of copies a year, because people  love the story of a 12 year old girl who is raped by a deity only to have her child slaughtered in a grisly bloodbath, by that same deity. Today being Easter, the day we gloriy that rape and murder.  I look at “Love, Lust, Madness” and than I look at the Easter story, and I ask myself… Why should I worry, at least it ain’t as bad as the Easter story.

~~EK

Spring In Maine

It’s a nice warm spring day in April in Maine. I bet you can tell, that is if you can see through the driving snow outside your window. Yep, it’s April, and right on schedual is our annual snowstorm. Jim Thomas and Ken Shoop must be ripping their hair out right now.  More snow mean longer snow on the ground and a longer time we got to stop them from stealing the Goldeneagle (my 1964 Dodge 330 which they have said must be junked as soon as the snow melts, otherwise the town of Old Orchard Beach well fine us $2,500 a day for each day we refuse to remove it.)

For those of you who do not know The Goldeneagle is the heart and soul of The Twighlight Manor series. If not for this car, none of the books would ever have been written. Back in 1978 when the first volum was written their were 4 characters: EelKat, Sir Roderic, Emporer Blue, and Captain Goldeneagle a.k.a Etiole. Captain Goldeneagle was the character based on this car, the character that would go on to be the most celebrated and most contraversal of the entire series: Etiole. The car itself has been featured again and again thoughout the series. It is an icon with fans of the series. An icon who is now threatened on the latest method of harassment that Jim Thomas and Ken Shoop have brought down on our family. (and ours is not the first they have done this to, they have a long history of doing this!)

First they put my dad in the hospital in a coma.

Than they force us to live in a tent during Maine’s sub-zero winter.

Than they threaten our pets.

Now they threaten my car.

And I continue to wonder: when well this end? When well someone put a stop to this man’s reign of terror? Why does everyone turn a blind eye to what they are doing?

~~EK

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having a problem getting posts to show up… testing to see if tags are working yet

666

I just logged in for the day. First thing I always do is check comments in queue waiting for moderation. Today there were only 2 comments wating for me to approve them. After reading and approving them I checked the spam comment list to see there were ant comments that got stuck in with the spam ones. About 1 or 2 comments get shifted into the spam section and have to be moved to the comment section, so I always check. Well today I got this message:

Caught Spam

Akismet has caught 666 spam for you since you first installed it.

You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day.

Well, if it isn’t a 458 that’s following me around it’s a 666. What is it with these two numbers anyways? Seems like every day one or the other shows up somewhere and sticks out like a sore thumb at me.

Does this ever happen to any of you? If so what number(s)?

~~EK

Why Do Editors Reject MSs?

I just read this:

Treat your editors like the coach from any sports team because the editor knows their audience and only rejects writing with a good reason–even if you never learn the specifics.

Seemed like good advice, though I know nothing of sports or coaches. I do know, however, that editors have no choice but to reject 90% of what they recieve. Why? Well, for every book they have the physical ability to publish each year they receive 1,000 or more manuscripts. Many publishing houses only print 12 new books a year, one each month, and yet they receive ten times that many manuscripts in a single day. What does that mean for you the writer? That means that your manuscript had better be damn good if you want it to punch out the compatition and make it onto the editor’s desk. Once on the editor’s desk it had better glow if it wants to get picked for publication.

Why do editors reject manuscripts? Well as the editor in chief of Moonsnails Magazine and The Twighlight Manor Press, I think I might know the answer.

Here are copies of a few of the rejection forms we use:

Rejection Notice: No Space At This Time; MS Put on File:

After careful consideration of your ms entitled [ms title goes here] we must regretfully inform you that we are unable to accept it at this time. The decision to deny acceptance was based on the following:At the current time we do not have space for your story in our publication. The reason for this is that all of the space slots have already been appointed for all of our upcoming issues, meaning that it may be a year or more before we well be able to use your story. However, we did like your story, and may use it in the future. Therefore I have put it on file for possible future publication. This does not mean that we can guarantee we well accept it in the future.
Because it may be a year or more before we would be able to accept your story, you are welcomed to submit this same ms to other publishers. If it is accepted by one of them, please inform us of such. If it does get published in an other magazine, we well move it to a file for possible reprint in our magazine.
If at some point in the future we do decide to use your ms, you well be notified and payment well be sent at the than current payment rate.So, you are now staring at this letter, wondering what to do next. Should you polish your ms and resubmit it? Should you submit it elsewhere instead? Should you give up writing like great aunt so-so told you to do?
Answers: maybe, yes, and no.
Yes, go ahead and polish your ms. Correct any spelling and grammar mistakes. Re-read it, possibly re-write it. When you’ve honed it to a fine point, send it out on it’s rounds again. Who knows maybe we’d like the second version of it even better, maybe not, depends on the changes made. Do not let this rejection stop you from writing though. Write more stories, get lots of practice, keep sending them to magazines, keep polishing each draft. Never listen to great aunts who tell you to give up.While your story was not accepted for publication in our magazine at this time, you do have potential and I wish you the best of luck on your writing career. Though I can not promise that we well accept your work, you are welcomed to submit other mss for our consideration in the future.Sincerely,

Rejection Notice: Inappropriate Content:

After careful consideration of your ms entitled [ms title goes here] we must regretfully inform you that we are unable to accept it at this time. The decision to deny acceptance was based on one or more of the following:

explicit sex or sexual references
graphic violence for violence sake
mention of or reference to suicide
animal, child, or elder abuse
excessive use of vulgar verbology
mention of or reference to drug use — this includes one or more of the following:

smoking
drinking
illegal drug use

At this point if you are like most writers, you are sending me a long letter of complaint, protesting that your ms was misrepresented and misjudged, followed by a list of reasons why sex, drugs and gore are essential to your story, ending with a threat of some sort at the bottom. Now, before you write back to me demanding that I force an editor to re-read your ms, let’s review the problem that got it rejected in the first place.

Our editors read the mss and than accept or reject them based on our writer’s guidelines, our current needs, and most importantly the author’s ability to capture the reader’s attention. You the author, are our client. We are your customer. It is the client’s job to keep the customer happy. Remember, the customer is always right. Why? Because it is the customer who knows what they want. The customer is the one with the money. Likewise, it is the customer who pays you for your work or rejects it and pays someone else whose work was better. You do a good job, the customer pays you to do your job. What is your job?
Your job is to write a story that we well want to buy. What can you do to make me want to buy your story? Ah-uh, now we come to the most important part of writing a story: the customer…that one whose always right…our customers. Who are our customers? The people who buy our magazine. The people who read our magazine. Those are our customers. Our job is to keep our customers happy, by buying stories they well want to read. To determine how to keep our customers happy, we first must know who are customers are.
Who are our customers? Let’s examine our magazine.
Our magazine is family friendly: i.e. read by families. Families include all ages. In other words it would not be unusual for the oldest grandmother to be seen reading a story from our magazine to her youngest grandchildren. Keeping that in mind, we do not accept stories that contain any of the above mentioned things.
We are also a small press, sold locally at a tourist resort town on the frigid North Atlantic coast of Maine. Most people who buy our magazine are often tourists looking for something to read on the beach. Others who buy us are local teachers and parents who trust us to publish stories that provide a safe, clean, enjoyable read for students.
What do our readers want? They want a story that they can enjoy reading again and again. They want action, adventure, fun, and entertainment. They want to read about heroes off on grand adventures, pirates seeking lost treasure, super heroes vanquishing dastardly villains, wars in outer space, knights in shining armor, spooky old haunted houses, the type of stuff that was popular in the 1950’s comic books is what our readers enjoy.
What our readers do not want is pointlessness. What is pointlessness? Pointlessness is ho-hum, I think I’ll ad a sex scene in here because I can’t think of anything else to write right now. Pointlessness is , yawn, the dialogue got to short, so I’ll stick in a few swear words. Pointlessness is, geeze this sure is going slow I’ll add a serial killing vampire and have him splatter entrails all over the pages. Pointlessness is, I can’t think of anything else to write, so I’ll have a teenager overdose herself than slice her wrists while jumping off a bridge, because my life is so dull that that’s what I might do tomorrow. Pointlessness is anything that adds nothing to the story plot, it is simply there to fill up empty space. That is pointlessness. Our readers look at sex, swearing, bloody violence, and suicide and say, “Ho-hum. Looks like yet another depressed teenager wrote that piece of crap. Booooring! When are they going to get some real writers to write some real stories. I’m going to cancel my subscription.”
As you can see, if we print those things we lose our readers. If we lose our readers, we lose our customers. If we lose our customers, we lose money. If we lose money we go bankrupt. If we go bankrupt we have to close down the magazine. If we close down the magazine, we end up homeless and starving. So, the author’s ability to capture the reader’s attention is a big factor in considering a ms for acceptance. Think about it this way. When you buy a magazine to read, would you pay to read something like this:

It was a dark and stormy night, the night I wrote this story. I remember it was dark and stormy because I was watching the drug dealer outside my window that night. But my story isn’t about him, no, it’s about me and my life as a teenager. This is the coolest story in the world! OMG!!!!! It is sooooooo greetarific! It is all about how my teen years were nothing but heaping loads o’ crapola. You’ll just love to reading about how my step-dad was hell and how he raped me and beat up my dog, and how my mom was on drugs (that‘s how I knew the guy outside my window was a drug dealer), and how I run away and everything! It doesn’t have a plot, but that’s okay cause I’m the main character anyways, and I’m so great the story don’t need no plot. YAH! But than I got to thinking it’d be great if it was a horror, so I turned my step dad into a blood sucking vampire and I stuck in loads + loads of blood and gore to shock your readers with too!!!! Isn’t that jus the coolest thing??? I’ll bet no body ever thought of doing that yet. Yeah I know, it’s great, don’t thank me, I’ll settle for you kissing my ass and being my eternal slave, I’m so great you know. Oh yeah and sex too, I added a sex scene on EVERY SINGLE PAGE!!!!!! Who cares about story and plot? You don’t need a story line or a plot, not when you’ve got me! Me and blood and gore and lots of sex and great in your face kiss ass @#$&(+!#@%7 swear words to fill up the space right? Am I right or what???!! Oh yeah! I’m right baby! Can ya dig it?!

Okay, so your ms wasn’t THAT bad, but I’m hoping that by writing that example in that way, it’ll open your eyes to the fact that it is very hard for editors to WANT read a ms that is submitted without the author at least stopping to think about what our readers do and do not want. Other magazines do not publish misspelled, grammatically incorrect stories that focus on me, myself and I surrounding by naked girls and serial killers on drugs and nor do we. Okay, maybe there are a few magazines that publish that sort of thing, so, send it to them, they want it, we don’t.
As I said before, the customer is always right, and we have to think of our customers first. Our customers do not want to read misspelled and grammatically incorrect stories, nor do they want to read pointless ramblings. How long do you think a reader will stay interested in your story if you haven’t actually got a story to tell? You would not read it and you know that, and editors know it even better than you do. You’d never pay money to read something like that, so how can you expect other people to buy it? That said, why should we bother to accept it?

So, you are now staring at this letter, wondering what to do next. Should you polish your ms, delete the sex, blood, and drugs and resubmit it? Should you submit it elsewhere instead? Should you give up writing like great aunt so-so told you to do?
Answers: maybe, yes, and no.
Yes, go ahead and polish your ms. Correct the spelling and grammar mistakes. Re-read it, possibly re-write it. Remove the vulgarity from it. When you’ve honed it to a fine point, send it out on it’s rounds again. Who knows maybe we’d like the second version of it maybe not, depends on the changes made. Do not let this rejection stop you from writing though. Write more stories, get lots of practice, keep sending them to magazines, keep polishing each draft. Never listen to great aunts who tell you to give up.

My suggestions:
Never submit a first draft. Polish your ms until it’s perfect. Write it, than re-write it.
Be sure that your story has a plot which readers want to read about with characters readers well want to read about. Who did it? What did they do? Why did they do it? Where did they do it? What was the result of what they did?
Every story needs a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning tells us what the goal of the story is. The middle tells us what the character did to reach that goal. The ending tells us what happened when the character reaches the goal.
Be sure that your main character is someone that you readers well have a reason to love.
Third person stories (he said she did) get accepted more than 80% times more often than first person stories (I said I did), and second person rarely gets accepted by anyone (you said you did). 99.8% of all best sellers are written in 3rd person.
Always spell-check
I always recommend writers use Windows XP and MSWorks Word Processor. They are simple, easy to use, beginner friendly, writer friendly, and readily available to anyone with a PC.
If you use MSWorks Word Processor, set it to spell-check, tell it to include grammar checking as well, with writing style as formal. That’ll ensure that most grammar mistakes, including passive voice, are pointed out to you so that you can correct them.
Before submitting always ask for a copy of the magazine’s writer’s guidelines.
Always read at least 2 sample issues before submitting, so that you know what type of stories the magazine is looking for. Better yet, take out a year subscription and carefully examine how the magazine changes from one issue to the next.
Know thy enemy. Read the competition. Know which writers are being published in which magazines. Ask yourself, why did they get published and not me? Examine the stories that are published. How are they different from yours? How can yours become better than theirs. Think of the world of fiction as a great war. Some writers are your allies, they well help you reach the top. Some writers are your rivals, they well climb over you to get to the top first.
Be persistent and never give up.

While your story was not appropriate for publication in our magazine, you do have potential and I wish you the best of luck on your writing career. Though I can not promise that we well accept your work, you are welcomed to submit other mss for our consideration in the future.

Sincerely,

Rejection Notice: Lack of Spelling and Grammar:

After careful consideration of your ms entitled [ms title goes here]we must regretfully advise you that we are unable to accept it at this time. The decision to deny acceptance is based on:

Lack of correct spelling and an abundance of basic grammar mistakes.

Due to the volume of mss we receive each week, we are unable to read mss which require us to first stop and make spelling and/or grammar corrections in order to be able to read it. In the 1800’s when most authors were unable to spell due to lack of education, yes, editors did correct spelling. This is not the 1800’s, it is 200 years later. In today’s world, you would be hard pressed to find an editor that would correct a writer’s spelling and grammar mistakes. Today authors didn’t grow up in log cabins 1,000 miles from civilization, and even if they do live in the Artic Circle, they type the story up on a computer, and guess what? Computers spell check, and most grammar check too.
Before your ms gets to one of our editors, it must first survive the shush pile. The slush pile is a mountain of stories, which threatens to smother our editors in a paper avalanche. Once in a while is found one or two authors who have sent their 4th or 5th draft, a well polished draft with mistakes corrected, and the ms printed neatly and formatted correctly…and editors can actually read it. Those one or two that we can read because they are clean and neat with no mistakes… those are the ones we read, because those survive the slush pile and make it on to an editor’s desk.
Which mss drown in the slush pile? If the paper is dirty, crumpled, and torn, it drowns. If the font is big and flowery, it gets tossed. If the font is smaller than 12pt, it seeps into the unknown. If the paper is scented and has confetti flying out of each page, it gets fumigated. If the paper is pink, red, yellow, blue, or any other color not white, it gets tossed before it gets a chance to blind the editor. If it reads like a dry collage text book, it gets recycled quickly…we don‘t want our editors sleeping on the job. If there are 10 or more grammar and/or spelling mistakes on the first page, it gets tossed. Of every 100 mss we receive, more than three thirds are tossed in the trash as unreadable. Sadly, your ms has fallen into the unreadable category. As a result, your ms did not survive the slush pile and went unread by our editors.
Now, before you write back to me demanding that I force an editor to read your ms, let’s review the problem that got it rejected in the first place.
Our editors read the ms and accept or reject them based on our writer’s guidelines, our current needs, and most importantly the author’s ability to capture the reader’s attention. You the author, are our client. We are your customer. It is the client’s job to keep the customer happy. Remember, the customer is always right. Why? Because it is the customer who knows what they want. The customer is the one with the money. The customer is the one who pays you for your work or rejects it and pays someone else whose work was better. What is your job? Your job is to write a story that we well want to buy. Now than, what can you do to make me want to buy your story? Ah-uh, now we come to the most important part of writing a story: the customer…that one whose always right…our customers. Who are our customers? The people who buy our magazine. The people who read our magazine. Those are our customers. Our job is to keep our customers happy, by buying stories they well want to read.
The author’s ability to capture the reader’s attention is a big factor in considering a ms for acceptance. Think about it this way. When you buy a magazine to read, would you pay to read something like this:

dis is da coolest storee i’s even did wrote!!!! OMG!!!!! It is sooooooo greetarific! it is all about how my teen years were noting but heaping loads o’ crapola, you’ll just lov at read about how my step-dad was hell, and i run away and everting! it doesn’t have a plot, but that’s okay cause I’m the main character anyways, and I’m so great the storee don’t need no plot. I stuck in loads + loads of blood and gore to shock the readers wid too!!!! Is’nt tat jus the coolest thing??? Ya I knoe, it’s great,,, oh yeah and sex too, I added a sex sence on EVERY SINGLE PAGE!!!!!! Who cares about story and plot? you don’t neeed a story line or a plot, not when you’ve got me and blood and gore and lots of sex and great@#$&(+!#@%7 swear words to fill up the space right? Am I right or what???!! can ya dig it?! howe loong do ya tink a weeder will stae intrested in yor storee ifing dey kan’t weed wat U al wote? and you hav‘nt actualy got a story to tell ? “YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!“ U wood knot weed it and yos no that, & us editers no dat even betta tan U doo, so why wood we bodder to weed it? even if it had been a goode storee, we wood not have nonw for all the mistakes… !!!! it jus 2 bad that mor wriders did knot spell an grammer checke afor dey submit

Okay, so your ms wasn’t THAT bad, but I’m hoping that by writing that example in that way, it’ll open your eyes to the fact that it is very hard for editors to read a ms that is submitted without the author first spell-checking it at least. A typo here and there is understandable and overlooked, but how often do you see a magazine publish a story in a complete lack of grammar? Other magazines do not publish misspelled, grammatically incorrect stories and nor do we. As I said before, the customer is always right, and we have to think of our customers first. Our customers do not want to read misspelled and grammatically incorrect stories.

So, you are now staring at this letter, wondering what to do next. Should you polish your ms and resubmit it? Should you submit it elsewhere. Should you give up writing like great aunt so-so told you to do?

Answers: maybe, yes, and no.
Yes, go ahead and polish your ms. Correct the spelling and grammar mistakes. Re-read it, possibly re-write it. When you’ve honed it to a fine point, send it out on it’s rounds again. Write more stories, get lots of practice, keep sending them to magazines, keep polishing each draft. Never listen to great aunts who tell you to give up.

My suggestions:
Never submit a first draft. Polish your ms until it’s perfect.
Be sure that your story has a plot which readers want to read about characters readers well want to read about.
Always spell-check
I always recommend writers use Windows XP and MSWorks Word Processor. They are simple, easy to use, beginner friendly, writer friendly, and readily available to anyone with a PC.
If you use MSWorks Word Processor, set it to spell-check, tell it to include grammar checking as well, with writing style as formal. That’ll ensure that most grammar mistakes, including passive voice, are pointed out to you so that you can correct them.
Before submitting always ask for a copy of the magazine’s writer’s guidelines.
Always read at least 2 sample issues before submitting, so that you know what type of stories the magazine is looking for. Better yet, take out a year subscription and carefully examine how the magazine changes from one issue to the next.

Know thy enemy. Read the competition. Know which writers are being published in which magazines. Ask yourself, why did they get published and not me? Examine the stories that are published. How are they different from yours? How can your become better than theirs. Think of the world of fiction as a great war. Some writers are your allies, they well help you reach the top. Some writers are your rivals, they well climb over you to get to the top first.
Be persistent and never give up.

You have potential and I wish you the best of luck on your writing career. Though I can not promise that we well ever accept your work, you are welcomed to submit other mss in the future.

Sincerely,

As I said these are premade forms. Why do we have premade forms? Because we do not accept certain things, and no matter how many time we tell people that we do not accept certain things, they still send them out anyways, thinking “well, they well make an eception for me”… no, not even if you were Stephen King, would we make an exception.

Baiscly, write the best you can, edit it yourself as best you can, always read submission guidelines carefully, and send your ms out to the places that WANT the type of work you write. Editors are desperatly seeking good writers, they want to accept your work, you just have to find the right editor for what you wrote.

~~EK

Writing Exercise: Word of the Day: Panspermia

Writing exercises come in many forms. Basicly anything that can inspire you to write a story, can become a writing exercise. Well, today I came across a word which I had never heard before: Panspermia. I looked at that word and thought: “What the hell?” It wasn’t used in a sentance so I had no way to figure out it’s meaning. It was part of a True or False quizz, which asked what the meaning of Panspermia was. Of course never hearing the word before, I had no idea what the answer was, so I guessed “False”. Turns out I guessed correctly, but still didn’t know the true meaning of the word, so it was off to the dictionary for me. Here is what I found:

Panspermia: noun

Theory that life on earth originated from organisms coming from outer space. According to this theory, the seeds of life were scattered to Earth but could have been distributed to other parts of the universe as well.

Well, now THAT I have heard of before. (Avid fan of David Dochovny ;) ) So it got me to thinking, why not have a writing exercise based on a word. That word. Well, why not? So here it is:

Write a story using the word Panspermia as your inspiration. It could be about the begining of life on earth, a sort of creation story, a court room drama about a scientist forced to defend his theory, the discovery of proof, even a fan-fic peice about Fox Mulder! Be imaginative, be creative, but most of all have fun!

~~EK

SPAM???

(¯`•Stormraven•._) wrote: define spam?

on my board im puttin a spam board, and most people that are joined to my forum dont know what spam is, so i wanna put an announcment about ‘what is spam’, can someone help me out and write me the announcment?EDIT: please

So you want to know about SPAM? All right.

Did you know?

The word SPAM is not an acronym at all. It comes from a famous “Monty Python” sketch wherein a customer at a cafe is bombarded with SPAM, the only item on the menu. A chorus of Vikings revel with the song: “SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM.”

Additionally, SPAM is a Hormel product named after “spicy ham” that served as the basis of the sketch.

So what exactly is this thing called SPAM on places like email, blogs, and message boards?

What is SPAM?

That depends on what you are really asking.

SPAM is illeagle, not only is it illeagle, but it is a criminal act, an FBI reportable offense, that can result in a $25,000 fine, and for the worst offenders a prison sentance.

What is SPAM?

SPAM is the posting of links to illeagle web-sites, such as those promoting Porn or drugs; usually through emails, blog comments, or “guest posts” on message boards.

HOWEVER:

SPAM has come to mean many other things as well… and today is used very losely to discribe a wide variaty of interrnet activities.

Most of us today, know SPAM as the posting of multi-links to a single web site…SEE THIS POST HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE… this type of SPAM is usually done by Bloggers hoping to raise their blog ranks through pingbacks and inbound links… like the “true” SPAM it too, is an FBI reportable offence (admins getting this type of posting on their site can go to the FBI website, and file a report of “online harasment”)

the type of SPAM you are refereing to is known as “friendly” SPAM… this is when an admin of a blog or forum invites members to post comments that are totally pointless and usually only one or two words such as:

LOL!

Got Ya!

I Won!

so… does that answer your question?

~~EK

New Design Available From Copper Cockeral: Purple Easter Cross

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Church VS Christian

I was just out chatting on another forum, and came across a discution about being a Christian and going to church or not. Well of course, you know me, I just had to join in a give my 2 cents worth right? Well, I got to thinking… It’s a good topic, why not have it on my forum as well?So, here it is: The original post that started the other topic on the other forum, and my answer to it. Add what ever you feel needs adding.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sept 18, 2006, 6:07am, pulse2 wrote:

Ok, I am a christian, I portray christianity in my life, I harm no one (Mainly because I’m pretty peaceful and avoid fights, just use words, usually more harmfull ), I don’t steal, I have never injured let alone murdered someone, I don’t go around lying and cursing people, I respect anyone and everyone, I love my family and pretty much everything needed to be a christian, however, I don’t go to church as often as a lot of Christians who go every Sunday, I’m just too busy, people say I can’t be a real christian if I don’t go to church every Sunday, huh?Do I need to? Its not as if I have never been before, I make and effort to go when I can, honestly? But how is it that many that do go to church can cheat on thier partner, betray someone, kill someone (Not likely but still happens), maybe rape or rob or even commit some other kind of sin, not once, but maybe several times and still be classed as more of a christian then me? I find that kind of hypocritical.Does this happen to any of you? Can you answer it? Does it happen to any other religeons?

I am a Christian. I grew up in a very strict Christian home.

When I say strict, I mean VERY: not only were the things you mentioned grave sins, but so to were the following:

women were forbidden to:

• cut their hair
• wear pants
• wear skirts above the knee
• wear short sleeves
• wear makeup
• wear jewelry
• be over 16 years of age and not be married
• be over 18 years of age and not have at least 4 children
• work or get jobs

things forbidden to all, both men and women included:

• drinking
• smoking
• coffee
• tea
• soda
• swearing (and you’s be surprised the things that are considered a swear!)
• public school
• meat

Those are just the major biggie sins, there are lots of little ones as well, stupid ritual like things… hand washings, wearing special underwear you have to wear, and stuff like that

giant sins like adultery, rape, murder, divorce, etc… those things you can’t be forgiven for EVER.

at least accourding to my family….

me, today, as an adult… I look at them and think… they are nuts!

today, I am still a Christian, I stll wear long dresses, I have long hair, and I don’t eat meat, but beyound that, I do not believe the same things my family does… I do not believe that the idiosicesies and rituals make you a Christian

today, my family shuns me, I am “the evi one”l, “the child of satan”, “the fallen one”, and other such titles they have given me. Why?

Because:

• I drink tea
• I drink soda
• I am 31 and not yet married
• I am 31 and have no children
• at age 31 I am trying to get a job and finding it very difficult as no one well hire a women age 31 with no schooling or prviouse job experiance
• I do not attend church
• I do not attend temple
• I do not wear special underwear

What is a Christian? By deffanition, a Christian is one who obeies the practices of Christ.

What did Christ do?

• He heal the sick
• he helped the poor
• he preached love thy neighbor
• he taught AGAINST eye for an eye
• he said to pray to The Father
• he did not wear fancy clothes
• he was condemded for working on Sabbth
• he made a whip and beat people in church
• he not only drank wine, he turned water into it

there are a whole list of things that Chriist taught, said, and did, he rarely went to church on the Sabbeth and was constantly ridiculed for it, by the Pharasies and the Saducies

I believe that a Christian does the things that Christ did…

I have known men and women who go to church every Sunday (or Saterday, depending on their faith), and I have known those same men and women to lie, cheat, steal, swear, drink, commit adultry, 3 went to prison for rape, a few were excumunicated for child abuse, and one even went to prison for murder.

All of them claimed to be Christian, all of them never missed the Sabbath.

I have meet many people who were not Christian. Where I live the Jewish faith is quite strong, there is even a synagog a mile from my house, and another 2 towns away. Musliums are becoming quite common here latly as well. There is a hindu community 40 mins away, and several Asia communities, with tradition relgions, that I do not understand or know the names of. After the Jews, Wiccans are prob’ly the largest non-Christian religion in the area. I’ve known MANY of them.

Than there are those who believe nothing, atheists and agnostics. My best friend’s dad is one of these.

Well, the point is, these non-Christian, live their lives quite peacefully, they go about their daily business, they do not try to convert people to their faith, they just go about their daily lives….

• in spite of the Christian groups who organize protests and camp out on their front lawns or business steps,
• in spite of the Christians who smash car windshield and storefront plate glass…
• in spite of the Christians who spray paint swatica’s on front doors of homes and synagogs….
• in spite of Christians who throw pigs heads in synagogs and mousques and drip pig’s blood and pig fat on car door handles. (yeah… I live Maine, right near the one that’s been on international news all summer, the pig head incedent that everyone was talking about on national news, it was local news here for months before the media got ahold of it… the one they had to call the FBI in on, because the Christians are so uptight against Jews and Muslums around here)

My question is…

• wasn’t Jesus a Jew?
• and when did Jesus do things like this to other faiths?
• how are these “good Christians” condoning this as something Jesus would do?
• and how can they sit in church each Sunday knowing what they did?

In answer to your question, I have this to say:

Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian anymore than sitting in a garage on Saterday makes you a car!

It is what you say, that makes you a Christian.
It is what you do, that makes you a Christian.
It is how you treat others, that makes you a Christian.
It is what is in your heart, that makes you a Christian.
It is love for one another, that makes you a Christian.

It is who you are,
not where you are,
that makes you what you are!

i think the average Christian (of which I am) is okay… they are living by what they believe in and are overall good people…it’s the fanitics that bug me, you know, the type that say “You go to my church or I’ll kill you.” those type. They bug me cause, that wasn’t Jesus way. He gave people the freedom to choice or not, he didn’t force people to follow him against their will.

Quote of the Day

“Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”

~~Dale Carnegie

Town Begins Investigation of Manager

What follows is a copy of a news article from a Maine newspaper: Portland Press Herald. If you haven’t done so already, please read last month’s post: Government Corruption: Town’s Harasment of Disabled Senior Goes Too Far!for more information regarding the series of events in the lives of just one of the families that this man has tormented.

Town Begins Investigation of Manager

Jim Thomas’ management style has led to complaints in Old Orchard Beach

By Seth Harkness;Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald York Edition March 15, 2007 copyright 2007 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.

OLD ORCHARD BEACH_ The Old Orchard Beach Town Council voted Wednesday night to hire a lawyer to examine complaints against Town Manager Jim Thomas.The councilors did not name the employee under investigation when they voted unanimously to hire Brunswick attorney Martin Wilk “in connection with a personal matter”, and no councilors would publicly confirm the town manager was involve. But in the last six weeks the town council has held two closed door meetings to discuss personal issues, neither of which were attended by Thomas. The Old Orchard Beach town charter requires the town manager to “attend the meetings of the Town Council, except when the Manager’s removal is being considered.”

Before the meeting, Town Council Chairmen Joe Klein was asked whether the personnel matter on Wednesday night’s agenda involved Thomas. “That’s a logical deduction,” he said.

As recently as last fall, the council extended Thomas’ contract and gave him a raise. Many people also credit the town manager, a Lewiston native who was hired in 2003, with helping to improve the appearance of downtown and attracting a new wave of economic development.

However, what some describe as Thomas’ headstrong style of dealing with town employees and members of the public has credited conflict, both in Old Orchard Beach and at his previous manager’s job in Sterling, Colo.

Thomas was fired from the Colorado position in December of 2002 after four months on the job, according to Frank Gower, a city councilor in Sterling for the past nine years. “He didn’t get along with employees and it was like his way or the highway,” said Gower. “He’s a good visionary man, but I think his management style left a lot to be desired. It was a conflict type management style like I’ve never seen before.”

Some former town employees in Old Orchard Beach said they had similar experiences while working for Thomas.

Tim Braun was director of Public Works in Old Orchard for six years and is now town engineer in Gorham. Braun left his position in Old Orchard one year after Thomas arrived, he said, because he could not tolerate working with the town manager. Braun described Thomas as a temperamental boss, prone to delivering orders and threatening employees with the loss of their jobs.

“He uses the authoritarian model,” Braun said. “I was reminded that I was an employee at will. There wasn’t any mincing of words.”

Thomas did not respond to requests for an interview Wednesday.

In September of 2005 the Town Council discussed residents’ complaints that the town manager had shown a lack of respect toward individuals and a disregard for public opinion. The council took no action at that time and Thomas said that his efforts to improve the town were bound to upset some people.

One recent controversy involving Thomas occurred last week when two town councilors, Jim Long and Robin Dayton, questioned the legality of a closed-door meeting in which they said Thomas urged the council to extend a contract with Poland Spring.

Thomas also was accused of running afoul of freedom of information laws during his tenure in Colorado. In October of 2002, the Journal Advocate, a daily newspaper in Sterling, published an editorial that chastised Thomas for refusing to release a copy of minutes from a city staff meeting. The paper also criticized Thomas for a policy requiring city employees to answer questions from the press only in writing.

Despite the controversies, a majority of the Old Orchard Beach Town Council voted in October to extend Thomas’ contract through June 2008 and raise his salary to $92,000.

Contact Staff Writer Seth Harkness at 207-282-8225 or at: sharkness@pressherald.com

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Fan-Fiction…or the art of stealing fiction

Fan-Fiction…or the art of stealing fiction

Question:What is wrong with writing fan-fiction? I thought writer’s liked it when us fans loved their work and wrote fan-fiction? I write fan fiction all the time…What harm can it do? Answer:FanFic or Fan Fiction. Nope, that is not here either. If you are looking for a place to post your fan fic, than you are in the wrong place, and talking to the wrong person.

As the creator and copyright owner of my own universe, I have my characters designed and act the way I want them to look, talk, and act. My porcupine quills stand on end and shot fire at the mere thought that a fan would maul and mutilate one on my characters to fit their own definition of them. I hate it when fans, create themselves as a character and become the lover of one of my characters. What gives you the right to think that he (she) would see anything to like about you? I know what my characters like and do not like. If I want them in a torrid erotica affair with someone, than I will give them a lover and write about the affair myself.

While it may be good practice for new writers, to write out their fantasies with copyrighted characters… if you are not capable of creating your own characters, than you really have no business pretending to be a writer at all.

Why? Well, for one thing to be a writer, you must create your own universe. Yeah, that’s right…Writers create.

And what do writer’s create?

Writers create characters. If you can’t create your own characters, you will not get very far as a professional writer.

Fan-Fic for your personal fantasy and writing practice is one thing but to publish it and make a mockery of the original writer’s intended character traits is not only an outrage, but a copyright infringement that could get you a $25,000 fine and/or 10 or more years in prison. Some authors may not care, but what about the one’s who do care? What do they do?

In a word…they sue your ass off, and take you for everything you have…you could lose your home, your car, your job, and if you are lucky you won’t go to prison…. that’s IF, and the law swings to the rights of the creator of the characters, so your chances of landing on the little tiny if are not good.

Think about it this way:

Pretend for a few moments that you are not some fan-fic groupie…but that you are an actual writer…the REAL THING…a 100% honest writer who has created a universe filled with wonderful characters. Characters who you get paid to write about. Characters, who, if you stopped writing about, your family would starve, because you are a real writer and you get paid to write….

Now that you are a real writer…think about this…

You have created a character that you love deeply. You have poured your heart and soul into designing him. You gave him a home. A career. A family. A lifestyle. A goal. A purpose, etc. He is perfect. Now you write a story about him. You want the world to know how much you love the character you have created.

Eureka, the story is published! Better, yet, the world loves him. He becomes an over night hit. You are so proud that the world loves him as much as you do.

Than one day you come across a fan-fic site, and shudder, shock, horror! You find that your beloved character has murdered his wife and is in bed with the author of the FanFic story! Or your villain has given up a life of crime and now preaches the Bible as a traveling evangelist.

You stare at the screen in disbelief. You are shocked. You are hurt. With tears in your eyes, you ask yourself: “How could they? How could they take my beautiful perfect character, and turn him into such a monster?”

Your heart is broken. You give up writing. You cannot understand how your fans could be so sadistic and cruel as to destroy your beloved work of art. Why? Why? Why? You thought they loved him as much as you do…and now you find that they don’t love him, they only love to hurt him. WHY? You ask again. You worked so long. You worked so hard. And for what? For this? To sit back and watch as the fans destroy the character you created and turn him into something you never intended him to be?

Than you realize…they are destroying your character, and fans are reading it! Fans are reading it! That means they are not buying your stories anymore. You are not getting paid for these works of fan-fiction. Your family must go hungry because your fans instead of paying for your work are reading fan-fiction. The writers of the fan-fiction have not only destroyed your character, but they have stolen the food right out of your children’s mouths. They have stolen your income, your career is ruined.

You see the problem with fan-fiction?

Do you see now why I hate it so much?

How do you think you’d feel if someone did this to you and a character you created?

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