Hello all!
Name: Wendy C. Allen a.k.a. EelKat
About Me: For those who know me, I am of course EelKat and for those of you who do not know me, well, I'm still EelKat. I am a writer of the Gothic, Horror, and Science Fiction genres. I am an artist who loves to draw and paint pictures of cats and dogs and birds and roosters and flamingos and peacocks, and I sell my art online via CafePress and Zazzle. I am 32 years old.
Our lives were turned upsidedown when we lost everything in a flood, than 6 months later after begining to rebuild our lives we lost everything again in a fire. Our family of 7 lived on the streets, homeless for 8 months, living in a shelter built out of tarp an cinderblock. This month marks 8 months since we got back in a house again and off the streets, and we hope to rebuild our lives, literaly from the ground up.
I am owner of
The Twighlight Manor Press and
Copper Cockeral Cards and Gifts.
On the internet, I am know as EelKat, my alter-ego, the talking black bobcat from Planet Diona (a character from both The Twighlight Manor series & The Planet Ptarmargin series, as well as The Chrystonite Chronicles).
In alphabetical order: I like Alan Rickman, Alice Cooper, American History, birds, candy, Carl Barks, cats, C*C*DeVille, Colombo, comic books, Darkwing Duck, David Bowie, Disney, dogs, Don Rosa, Donald Duck, dvds, eels, Etiole, fashion, gothic, haunted houses, horror, Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp, Kieth Laumer, movies, NegaDuck, pigeons, Prof. Snape, Retief, roosters, sci-fi, Scrooge McDuck, Sir Roderic, Twighlight Manor, Uncle Scrooge, video games, Vincent Price, Willy Wonka, writing, Zorro.
I am the creator and Administrator of
A Writer's Desk, the forum for writers.
I am an active eBayer and regular poster on the Padded Cell.
I am a huge fan of Don Rosa and his book The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Of course that means I'm also a huge fan of Carl Barks and his art work and stories as well.
So what do I do when I'm not writing books or cruiseing online? Living life. You know the drill. But that's boreing, so what else is there? Well, I love to watch movies and read. My fave actors are Vincent Price & Johnny Depp. Another actor/character combo I like is Alan Rickman as Prof. Snape.
My fave writers (after Don Rosa and Carl Barks) are Kieth Laumer (Retief) and Douglass Adams (Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy & Dr. Who).
My fave TV shows are Darkwing Duck, X-Files, Star Trek (original), Dr. Who (Tom Baker), Xena, Colombo, and Sherlock Holmes staring Jeremy Brett.
My fave singers are C*C*DeVille, Poison, David Bowie, & Alice Cooper.
I love cats, dogs, roosters, birds, and esp. eels. (Have or have had pets of all of the above.)
I love living near the ocean, I love the smell of the salt air, the sound of the waves, the feel of the sand between my toes... nothing in the world is better than living on the cold icey North Atlantic Ocean!
Oh yeah! and I love html!
About My NaNo History:This is my third year.
In 2005 I barely started, but can't even remember why I didn't finish.
In 2006, my old account got deleted so I had to set up a new one. Last year my horror/sci-fi/romance finished NaNoWriMo with 183,000 words.
This year, I'm going to write an Adventure/Fantasy. Not sure how yet, but I plan to have a romance sub-plot within the main-plot.
My plot in one sentence:Man goes to South America looking for mythical artifact to prove it is real, but instead finds a lost/undiscovered city, where time has stood still and the inhabitants still live as the Aztec/Incas/Mayas of centuries past, and are ruled by a human-eating creature with very real "god-like" powers.
More Detailed recap of my story: :I'm going for ancient-pre-Columbus South America for mine. Deep lush green jungles, exotic birds, pyramids in the middle of no where, a culture where people believe in bird-gods and blood sacrifices, and nature/rain gods, and all that type of stuff....
My "hero" lives in today's time, somehow comes across an anceint artifact that sends him to South America to find a "lost treasure". Once he gets to South America though, he gets lost and ends up in an "ancient city", that has been cut off from the rest of the world for thousands of years, they are unaware of the outside world and the outside world is unaware of them. This lost city is so isolated that it is as if time has stood still for them, and for my MC it is like he has stepped back in time into ancient Mesoamerica.
Unlike real life however, my tribe has real "gods" that do punish them if they disobey. Actually the "gods" are really shapeshiftering Phookas that turn into fearsom things to frighten the villagers. And it's kind-of going to be Conan the Barbarian type sword and sorcery, only my tribe has swords made of wood embedded with obsidian, (as they did in real history) because metal wasn't invented yet; and my wizards are going to take the form of a tribal shaman boardering on Voodoo mambas/hougans.
Have you picked up a dare for your NaNo Novel yet?I have and here it is:
DARE:
Have chickens wandering around the pages of your book.
BP= if you have a differant breed of chicken in each chapter
DP= if the chickens talk just like humans do
My MC's Profile::The answers here are for my villain
Blackbird who is alo my MC. He's a character that I have used off and on in my stories since the 1980's, so he's well established, he's also not human.
1.) What is your character's name?
Born Esmerald Mudsburg, October 24, 1570, he was given the nickname Blackbird, after the form he chose to take on as his trademark shape.
2.) What does he/she look like?
He is Morphic Phooka, whose natural appearance if humanoid. He has exotic and highly attractive Mongolian features. His very long shaggy black hair that appears to have never seen a brush. He has unearthly, black, deeply slanted, almond shaped eyes lacking both whites and pupils, and which glow like blazen white coals when he is angered. His hands are long and thin, but muscular and abnormally strong. He is able to crush human bones with his bare hands. On his finger tips instead of fingernails he has sharp gleaming black eagle talons for ripping human flesh. Blackbird is both trickster and shapeshifter. He is neither human, nor does he have the emotions or mentality of a human. He is irrational and ruthless, known for acting fist and thinking later. His violent temper has lead to countless human deaths, many of whom he ate after killing. He often acts more animal than human and well growl, bare his fangs, and lash his claws when he feels threatened. Due to the fearsome nature of his natural appearance, Blackbird often takes the form of a human to befriend unsuspecting victims. His most often used form of choice however is the Veruex (The Black African Eagle) in a larger than natural size. Other favored forms include Panthers/Black Jaguars, and most black birds. In his natural "unmorphed" form he most resembles the Human called Alice Copper.
Blackbird looks just like this:
3.) Where does he/she live?
Blackbird lived most of his life in remote regions of China, Papua New Guinea, and the Amazon Rainforest. Later in life he was captured by humans and commited to The White Rock Asylum for the Criminally Insane. In this year's NaNoNovel he lives in the Amazon.
4.) How old is he/she?
this year: 437 years old, nearling the end of his races average 500 year life span
5.) What time period does he/she live in?
From 1570 - current 2007
6.) Does he/she have any relatives?
Living relatives: his father, 3 younger brothers, one younger sister
Dead relatives: mother, 37 wives (most of them human)
Other: has a twin brother rumored to be dead
7.) What is his/her favorite color?
black
8.) What is his/her favorite food?
human flesh
9.) What types of clothes does he/she wear?
Blackbird spent most of his life in China (1600's), and always dresses in black, wearing loose flowing silks in Asian cut. He sometimes wears elaborate masks and huge feathered headdresses of Mesoamerican style.
10.) Describe his/her pajamas:
wears a loose black silk kimono type robe to bed, but does not sleep on a bed, in humanoid and jaguar form he sleeps on the floor/ground, or in bird form in a tree
11.) What is his/her favorite book?
he is illiterate
12.) What is his/her favorite song/music genre?
likes wild tribal drum beats
13.) How often does your character shower/brush his/her teeth?
rarely
14.) When was the last time he/she went out on a date?
after 37 dead wives, women tend to stear clear of this dark creature
15.) Does he/she have allergies/asthma/some strange disease or susceptibility to disease?
no
16.) Does he/she play an instrument?
no
17.) Does he/she collect items?
the skulls of his victims; antique Chinese weapons; raises poison arrow frogs to make halucinagetic drugs with
18.) Does he/she have any friends?
only two, most people a terrified of him
19.) If you could place your person in a high school, which groups would he/she "click" with?
goths or emos would prob'ly find him cool
20.) What hair styles does your character have?
very long, shaggy, unkept, matted, unbrushed, very wild and savage looking
21.) If your character got lost in a forest, what would he/she do?
turn into a bird and fly over the tops of the trees to find the direction out
22.) If your character got flicked off by someone, what would he/she do?
rip out their throat and eat their heart
23.) If your character was asked out on a date by a random person, what would he/she do?
Women are his weakness, he has had many wives, several of them human, he tends to "woo" women in much the same hypnotic way that other dark races of faerie do. Women are adviced to keep their distance from him, as he tends to mate not date and lays claim to any woman willing to go near him, and well than slaughter and eat any male that gets near her
24.) Does your character have any phobias?
none for most of his life... after being released from the asylum he had many, including doctors and guards (they used toture to keep him sedated)
25.) Does your character have a job/profession?
Blackbird is the prime "deity/god" of the religous cult in several of my books; was a hitman for a ganster for a couple of years in more recent years.
26.) Is your character a morning person, or a late-night person?
Blackbird is very secretive and prefers his privacy, keeping out of the public eye, usually keeping to the shadows and is rarely seen by his victims. He uses stealth and the element of surprise to his advantage. People fear the darkness for fear than Blackbird will be lying in wait for them.
27.) If your character met you, what would he/she say/do?
??? no idea ???
28.) When is your character's birthday?
October 24, 1570
29.) What habits does your character have?
A dangerous blood thirsty Morphic Phooka from the Realm of Fae, Blackbird spends much of his days in the form of a giant Black African Eagle, though he can take the form of anything or anyone he chooses, making him all the more dangerous as he could be disguised as your best friend and you would not know it until it was too late.
Like most races of Faerie, the Phookan race is far from friendly towards humans. The mildest Phookas resort to pranks and trickery, while the darkest are outright brutal and deadly. Blackbird is feared not only by humans, but by other Phookas as well.
The eldest son of the Phookan warrior: Aardsvorkus Mudsburg, a.k.a. The Mudbug. Blackbird was raised and trained to be a fighter in gladiator style "faerie rings", where he quickly became the undefeated champion. His trademark was to change from humanoid to bird and back to humanoid form confusing his opponent, than killing them with a quick blow that turned their head front to back, and finally ensured their death by eating their heart and brain.
After The Red-Dragon and The Lansquin, Blackbird is considered the most feared and most dangerous man in the known universe (in my books).
30.) How would a character in your book who does not like this character describe him/her?
most say he is a monster; many would like to see him exicuted
Other characters:There are three characters from modern time/yoday: a retired archaeologist in his 70's-ish, his college student assistant, and his out-of-high-school-not-yet-in-college granddaughter who is spending the summer with him. These are the three who head to the Amazon and find the lost tribe.
The MC is the "god" villain of the lost tribe. Somehow I'm planning a romance between this god-creature and the proffessor's granddaughter, but I haven't got that worked out yet, which is why I am here on the romance forum looking for ideas.
pheew! what a long post! LOL!
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