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Change of Tactics

Change of Tactics
Change of Tactics

Change of Tactics

I have come up with a change of tactics.

In amongst all the other things I’ve been doing with regard to my websites, I have been re-reading (you could call it re-editing) books I’ve previously written at a rate of about three or four chapters a day, with the idea of bringing them into line with the ‘industry-expected’ word count for their genre. I’ve decided that writing more books is not as important as getting the ones that already exist in the best shape possible.

Or maybe I could still write new stories but at a slower pace. Yes, that sounds like a good compromise, because I would miss writing if I stopped completely even for a couple of months.

I’ve also come up with a change of tactics with respect to my eyesight. Going to the optician here is difficult for me, and, except for a check up for disease, I don’t really need to go anyway. I can read paperbacks and the Kindle Fire HDX I’m writing this on without glasses, but I need them for my laptop, so I got to thinking that maybe my problem has to do with contrast.

Therefore, first, I increased the on-screen font size by 25%, and that helped, but then I chose one of the high contrast screen configurations and the combination worked a treat. So now I still don’t need new glasses. Just go to your desktop and right-click for the options. The change does affect every programme you use, and some, like spreadsheets look very strange, but you can tone them down within their own options menus.

The last change of tactics has worked for me so far, despite everything ‘looking odd’, I just hope that the first change will be equally profitable.

All the best.

Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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