Thanks for posting this. It is just what I needed to read.
Just great advice. I tend to wait until I have the idea full on before I begin writing, which means I don't do much. Previously, I began writing without a plan and ended up in a lot of dead ends. I need to find the middle somewhere.
A thought on monitors. I like big old style TV tube monitors, they still make them, and they are not that expensive. They are the part of the computer that connects you to the output, and the thing you look at all day. I know being a starving artist makes it hard, but when you get some cash, consider investing in the thing you use most each day. A good video card to drive the good monitor, so it does high res at a high frame rate is nice too. Any modern PC has more CPU horsepower than you will ever need for typing. Spend the extra cash on the part you look at, nout more power. I build web sites, write, and surf using a 1998 PII/266, but it has a good video card and a 19" NEC monitor.
Also, if you are having a hard time reading the tube, it could be your eyes. As you get older, you need reading glasses, the kind with a prescription, not the cheapies sold next to the sunglasses stand. I do not use bi-focals, I have real reading glasses for use at the computer. My wife has them that are full size glasses, and has to switch glasses to get up and walk away, because she has bad vision. Much easier on the eyes.
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Just great advice. I tend to wait until I have the idea full on before I begin writing, which means I don't do much. Previously, I began writing without a plan and ended up in a lot of dead ends. I need to find the middle somewhere.
A thought on monitors. I like big old style TV tube monitors, they still make them, and they are not that expensive. They are the part of the computer that connects you to the output, and the thing you look at all day. I know being a starving artist makes it hard, but when you get some cash, consider investing in the thing you use most each day. A good video card to drive the good monitor, so it does high res at a high frame rate is nice too. Any modern PC has more CPU horsepower than you will ever need for typing. Spend the extra cash on the part you look at, nout more power. I build web sites, write, and surf using a 1998 PII/266, but it has a good video card and a 19" NEC monitor.
Also, if you are having a hard time reading the tube, it could be your eyes. As you get older, you need reading glasses, the kind with a prescription, not the cheapies sold next to the sunglasses stand. I do not use bi-focals, I have real reading glasses for use at the computer. My wife has them that are full size glasses, and has to switch glasses to get up and walk away, because she has bad vision. Much easier on the eyes.
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