My thoughts on writing and I got a bigger screen...

Grandma's old LCD TV is now my main PC monitor. It does 1336x768 which is kinda lame but will come in handy for watching the football later in June (assuming I'm not dead). I plan to set up the old screen and a basic PC so Mom can do more reading and researching but maybe later.

Request came in for writing advice. I am the ideal person to give out such advice as I've made all the standard mistakes. There are just 5 important things:

1. You must not write when you feel like writing "I wanna make a book". Nor do you write when you have a "good idea for a book". You must write when the cup overflows and you're all stained from the wine you've been drinking yourself silly with. Drunk with the ideas and situations, people and objects that consume your everyday thoughts.
   
   
2. When you have this, you sit down and write a very drawn out account or a very short one that's just 3 pages. Don't worry. It is a sign that you lack what I call 'anchors'. Stories used to be told because of special days / circumstances, and nowadays, with books, you have to insert the anchors -one of which is the POV or the narrative voice. Why is she / he talking to me? Why is this special? It's special for example, because 'the world is ending' or 'they are trying to understand the gnostic texts'.
   
   
3. After you conquer that barrier, the next one is that sometimes, stories happen fast, sometimes slow. Information has to be given out. But so many say different things. The truth is that I love giving out information. If you love it too, you will find the right ways to do it. And it will sound good.
   
   
4. Now it comes the time to do some logistics. Will everything tie up? Will readers get my story? Yes, it's very important to make yourself understood. The way to do this is not to rearrange your whole book and shuffle characters / chapters, but to separate your story into threads. Each thread has a feel, a style. In essence, a full range of emotional circumstances is explored.
   
   
5. After it's all done, there are 4 or 5 things left. You have to actually read your novel(la) over and it is very painstaking. But there is a simple way of doing it. Just use a grammar checker like Office 365. Rent it for a few months and it will weed out your mistakes. Then you need to go over it again to see if it fits the 'big picture'. This is also easy, just use an AI to analyze it. Another thing is to see if there are humanly mistakes (non-grammatical). This is also easy. Just have an AI narrator read it to you. Finally, give it to some people for their opinions. It should by now be good!

Back to the TV / monitor. I got it adjusted to native resolution via our other TV's remote -Dad's idea. Now it's good to go. My backup netbook is still with the 19" NEC LCD. I rarely wake it from sleep.

We are now beating back the Liew witchy scourge. All of us are armored up and ready for combat of the heart, the flesh, and later, the Spirit.

 

Further signs and an analysis of what they mean...

I wrote about the signs I received today on my Substack HERE. But to gather what to do about it and when to do that still needs clarification. Yes, I spread my writings between, X, Blogger, Substack, Medium, and Tumblr, as well as my Google Site /view/ckyap and my books on Amazon KDP.

In the last post, I talked about buying a few things and they turned out prophetic. You may need to sign in to Substack (it's free) to view my post, likewise Medium (all my posts are free). Just like Super Derek Underpants which I'm going to be writing some of tonight.

So what does a sharpener and a dip pen have to do with the coming of Christ? Check out what God's name, YHWH means -it's a stunning eye opener that predicted the killing of God's only son. He must be important!

There will be 5 degrees of cruelty perpetrated by heathen women against Christian men or even our sisters maybe. We are at level 4 now. Next month, May -it will peak then suddenly close. During which time, we are to be 'good sailors' -tough men who can rough out the storm far away from the comforts (of home / church etc) -the comforts of our hearts for some.

God has blessed us with super turtle powers. We can retract into our shells and survive a predator -I wonder how? And then to come out and glorify Him again. He has given us gold on our tongues but a cheap plastic vessel to be our bodies. Perhaps such that none will blame us or hate us much who work Gospel for the Lord.

Gray -the color of Allah (just my personal belief). Moslems will help the faithful of the Christian faith to bear the Kiamat / Tribulation. Moslems are not our enemy. At least, not here in Malaysia. Christians must not fall into the trap of believing our friends from other faiths are evil. No, they are also good.

Now I understand the wet charcoal said to be 2028. The FoTL tee. It is the dip pen (gray -charcoal -and wet with ink). We have about 2 years till possibly the 7th trumpet. More later... 

Some thoughts on the ink I have to dip with -I only have one bottle of Kandahar Indian black, made in England. We all know Kandahar is ruled by the Taliban, mainly from east Iran, and Pakistan, and of course, Afghanistan. The Taliban were named after religious 'students'. Could my calling be to research such topics / geographies? Will the Taliban move on Israel come 2028? Will be British be instrumental in facilitating / pointing out that?

Sorry for the delay writing Super Derek Underpants...

For those of you who want to own the first half of the book for free, follow this link to my Google Drive. It is a PDF.

I am facing problems writing some software I started earlier and want to clear that first before writing SDU Part II. Plus there is less time to work on it due to the witchy telepathy deposited onto my mindspace.

I may not be releasing chapters 6 - 10 online, except as a separate PDF. On the other hand, perhaps I could do the opposite depending on reader demand.

Almost 3am and time for bed. 

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The wifi on my Acer netbook died. It had been touch and go for some time. The screen is also unreliable. I snapped in a TP-Link dongle I keep for emergencies, and now it connects fine. Sometimes the internal adapter comes alive again.

Phones needs charging. Will head out circa 3pm and have a good long walk to rejuvenate. Will be bringing extra cash in case there's anything good to buy.

Liew witches slashed at my eye in the shower for some reason. Not sure what watch to wear. With the new powers / controls, life is pretty peaceful tho not perfect.

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I am back from my outing. Went to KLCC / Decathlon / Kinokuniya. I bought a Hocoro by Sailor, variable dip pen. Like it a lot. It is more expressive than a stylograph or fountain, even rivaling other dip pens. Thus justifying it's cost of circa 75RM. I like that the nib detaches and is stowed into the holder. Did some sketches and they turned out well. Will be using this for my upcoming sketch-with-me book.

Also bought a T'gaal multisharpener for circa 22RM which can adjust the amount of taper. This will be a gift for my nieces.

At Decathlon, I picked up 2 new shirts for 19RM each. Quite nice. Vented neckline and armpits. They show off my muscles a bit. Good motivation to diet and exercise.

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I am pursuing another objective -to invent a better self-adjusting range-finding sight. Previously, I talked on a cylindrical lens as a possible solution, now me and some guys are making a paper / card sight that you can assemble and calibrate yourself. I am of course, making myself a copy from an old Casio watch card sleeve. It is a paper slope and a flat upright at the near end of it. As you tilt the bow upwards, a series of notches on vertical scale align with the notches on the slope. To calibrate, just adjust the slope angle / curvature down at the range.

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Took a shower and am changed into fresh clothes. Feeling better. Coming up to 10pm. I want to code for an hour, then switch to writing SDU. 

No time to write as Mom and I had a long talk about relatives passing, and religion when one is old. We discussed much about Jesus and why nobody believes in him. But prophecy made sure some would know up till this day. 

Just worked out at 2am. Feeling energized. Drank green tea. Will probably sleep at 3am. 

Net4Spice wrapping up, SDU continues…

I have just about wrapped up n4s. The node consolidation algorithm is nearly perfect, and easy to maintain too. Thinking I will keep this “iterate all components, and loop round for i/o matches” procedure.

Just as I was working on it, I started chapter 6 of Super Derek Underpants. Found an anchor for it so it’ll read better. Books without anchors are incohesive, and shallow.

Feeling sleepy. The red marks on my back yesterday, have healed. 

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Was assaulted by certain British people after spending hours listening to general problems and helping Whites out of trouble. The best cure for bewitching (by the Liews witches) is to be good to yourself and seek some professional help or holistic healers in your locale. Don’t think too much about going to Hell, just live clean and be happy for peace you now enjoy.

We have relaxed all the rules so help should come and be abundant. No need to freak out.

Am still unable to finish programming n4s tho it’s getting there.

 

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Making headway on net4spice. There are some pressing matters to handle, involving the war in mindspace. Need to be clever and defeat the witchy Liew 6. 

 

Then I will have time to code, write, and make the archery sight I designed. It's quite a simple design which is made entirely from paper / thin card, and is adjustable, self-range-finding.

1am, brushed and took my meds. Work out circa 2am. Work towards a systematic algorithm now within sight. And it only needs one pass of components each passed by all i/o options. Highly efficient and simple.

Witches from the Liew family are subdued at last, using a springy concentric metal machine which eats flesh / tissue and can restore it. Finally, something everyone can be happy with.

Tomorrow, an outing to TRX. Have a look around and spend some money.

 

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2am, just worked out. Feeling energized. Some last bits of coding to do before bed. Am wearing my Mudman Solar on NATO. Its original strap was too bulky-looking.  

Quite a haul at the mall...

I bought a cheap sketchbook for under 9RM, 80 sheets of creme paper and a soft cover with elastic closure. This will be the sketchbook I do my studies in when I'm on the road, etc. I want to study expression, and angles, and form / movement of the body. Later I plan to sell copies of it -even the original sketchbook itself to raise money so scarce these days.

Also got a new Rolson screwdriver set from ACE. They are closing operations in Malaysia IIRC, and everything is cheaper, up to 30% off. The old set, which has 3x more bits got lost in the move to the shoebox. I think somebody dropped it and the bits went missing. This one is very nicely finished, ratcheting, with 14 bits so I can hopefully disassemble my G-Shocks and change their batteries myself.

Dad bought some plastic bins at IKEA and I got splashed with my MiXue coffee. Was somehow thirsty, even after an iced tea for lunch.

Am coding again this afternoon. Decided to not use a recursive function after all. Just a series of link / node finder loops flat in a big line iterator loop. Confident that this is the right solution. Each finder loop has its own counter so that the iterator count remains independent. It should work and is easy to understand.

Liew witchy forces continue their attacks, destroying Christians from the west who are trying to get me to help them. So we welded armor plating over the Liew witches' nerves internal and external. They now are unable to shove onto us or our emotions much.

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Had dinner of canned dace with salty black beans, egg, and cabbage. I am eating less nowadays, hopefully to drop a few kg over the next week or so. Broke from coding to write a Medium article on traditional time-telling in today's smart-enabled world. Now back to work. I have 2 days to make net4spice work and today's algorithm is the best I've so far written. Results are printing but the nodes are not populating well.

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Past 2am, still coding n4s. It's going to take some time but the end is in sight.

The situation with money, America and elsewhere...

A request came in to talk about money -earning it, having enough to go on. And it's not the first time I've been asked how to make enough by Americans and Malays too.

Since we are in Christian space (I am a Christian), we might as well go thru the 5 ways money appears magically in our hands,

1. Money transfers from old times to new. Do not squander it. If you see someone squander it, then pick it up if you can roll some out of their property, ideas, etc. Yes, for the Christian, money is an opportunity for prayer -I found something someone doesn't care about but the Lord does.
2. Money come by saving and investing in ventures that spread Gospel. The Christian market is a huge one and those who know how to teach better, live cleaner, can share their testimony. There are a lot of junk testimonies but a life lived well is money in waiting. Tell your story, write that book.
3. Talent in Christian communities is here and there good. Be associated with talented people to earn more money, but really, it is a joy to fill the world with the Lord's grace and love -in worship to Him.
4. Social media is not a good way for the Christian to move in. Rumors are, that soon SM is going to be limited and perhaps marked Beast territory. I would say, if you are a writer, keep writing on your personal blog. I am here, on DogBlots.blogger.com, where sometimes hundreds of people gather to read an article I wrote -in 24 hours.
5. Christians help one another. I am known among the Chinese as 'mou kuai yoong' -a worthless person but I have a talent -it is inspiring others to improve. I am some kind of editor / producer for creative work who never gets paid. Don't be shy to ask a Christian for help -he may point you to people like me, and I to others you may need as well.

Coding going slow...

I'm still trying to figure out net4spice's recursive node finding function. I can't believe it's so hard to code what the diagram says on paper / my iPad's Freeform drawing pad. I must be slow of mind.

But today, I woke up early, managed to get cleaned well, and showered. Disinfected my room and am ventilating it.

Liew forces are attacking, shoved onto me by the west. We don't really want to kill anyone and that's taking a toll on our bodies. Maybe we are too longsuffering. 

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In analyzing some people's writing style, it came down to how I generate fiction prose. At any one time, I am thinking about 4 things (as I write to a stretchable outline).

1. Every scene or conversation / dialog has to hook the reader. It has to be concise and sweetly worded, with consequences for the rest of the book.
2. Every character has to have links to the other characters, and they affect one another (as they would in real life). How they affect must be choreographed so it appears also sweet.
3. The language used for descriptions, even dialog has to leave holes to fill in later. You can divulge a lot but always reserve what you plausibly can, for later.
4. Think of the reader and give them plenty of variety, make your book lively as possible, with quotes, songs, poetry, dream sequences, monologues, metaphors etc. coming in every chapter at the very least.

I should explain 'sweet'. It simply means pleasant to read, not jarring, not impossible, nor unlikely, but smooth, going down.

Sometimes, it's hard to begin a book or find a continuation. You may have a story to tell but how? There are some who get into character, who write about people of certain character. For myself, I use anchors. For my novella, iS, I started off with a bow (archery lesson) because it has always been a favorite of mine. From there, I branched out into knife fighting, psych warfare, weapons of mass destruction.

Along the way, I needed help from subplots to sweeten the story with, so (and I may be wrong) I introduced twists (mild surprises essentially) and extra characters who were interesting, to add and carry on a level or layer of believability. This is not padding but pacing.

Padding is when nobody is saying anything that drives the plot, or the author is going off on something (we sense) leads nowhere interesting.

Pacing is like channel switching on your TV or YouTube. Sometimes, a different character or concept they bear in, has to be the channel your reader watches.

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Catching your own mistakes while writing can be difficult depending on the kind of writer you are, whether you do draft to draft editing or just unspool, whether you outline or just wing it.

There are 4 types of mistakes you can spot easily and that will make your book much better,

1. Breaking lines / flow where it shouldn't be broken
2. Out of sequence reveals (big or small alike)
3. Indecision and poor reasoning (I will explain)
4. Putting out your concepts before loving your reader

Decisions and reason are two very important parts of writing. Make the critical decisions before starting a book. Like in my novella, iS -I had the big picture sorted out: east vs west, man vs machine, that it would top off at circa 20k words. Then, as I outlined and discovered, I was able to make good decisions with the right reasons attached.