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.