Who Am I?

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.

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. Here is what I'm planning to write for 2007:

I want to write a Carl Barks style adventure story for my NaNo this year. You know... treasure collector goes on mad-dash quest to find lost/forgotten treasure, which takes him to the deepest darkest jungles where he meets up with all sorts of strange native tribes, grabs the sacred artifact, and barly escapes with his life. The Indiana Jones series of movies was based on Carl Barks' stories btw. Carl Barks stories (written in the 1930's and 1940's) are action packed and loads of great fun.

This year I'm doing an Adventure~Fantasy(I think....may change mind by the time November gets here... last year I had everything planned out a month in advance and than threw it all out on day 2 of NaNo and did something totaly differant!)

I'm thinking Carl Barks style adventure set in a fantasy world backdrop. I'm planning to send my hero off after a "lost treasure", and have him end up in the deep jungle where there's a lost civilization that is totally cut off from the rest of the world and is totally differant from humans as we know them. Not sure yet if it'll be a "magic realm" or not.

At the moment, I set mine in the middle of a lush green jungle, probably South America or PNG but not sure yet. I was thinking that maybe their city was in a volcanic valley, where the mountains were so tall and so forbodin (rumbling and spouting lava) that the people never dared leave the vally, while at the same time outsides thought it was just on big volcano so never went into the valley. That's how I'm planning to isolate my city anyways.

I was thinking of having an oracle of some sort in my story, but I don't much about oracles. But I was thinking of having some sort of "holy building" in the center of the civilization, with a priestess of some sort where folks go to seek advice.



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