With Wireless Security Video Cameras
Wireless security video cameras are a writer’s dream come true. Not that a writer would necessarily BUY a wireless security video camera (they are writers, after all, and can’t afford to buy anything). But just knowing they exist and are commercially available can advance a lot of stalled story plots. (“Jane was sure Mary was cheating at poker. Sure, Mary was 89 and completely blind, but she was also the best player in Washahomaga County for fifty years. It was time to overthrow this reign of terror. Jane bought a wireless security video camera.”) See what I mean?
More Writing Tips
If you are going to have Jane incorporate a wireless security video camera into her plans to expose Mary as a suspected poker-cheat, you do need to do your homework. Readers are not completely stupid – otherwise they wouldn’t be reading you. Don’t insult their intelligence by making crud up about wireless security video cameras. For example, don’t have Jane smuggle one out of a police station by hiding up a little used bodily orifice when they are commercially available.
Also, you need to know what wireless security cameras can and can’t do. Having Jane’s new wireless security camera walk the dog and clean the kitty litter is again insulting your readers’ intelligence (unless you are specifically writing humorous science fiction, ala Terry Pratchett). Also, you need to know some basic facts about wireless security video cameras. If Jane and Mary live in 1945, when wireless video cameras weren’t invented yet (not officially, anyway) would jerk the rug out from under a reader.
Where To Research
The best place to research is on line. This is the most cost-efficient and biggest library in the world. If you are easily distracted by all of the bright shiny objects on the web, time your research. Or, purposefully borrow someone’s computer. That way you are guaranteed to get down to the business of graduating from Wireless Security Video Cameras 101.
Some sites, like Wikipedia, you need to take with a grain of salt. And if you go to customer review sites, you will need to take a whole bag of potato chips’ worth of salt with you. But even advertisements and websites like www.Homespy.com (I kid you not) will give you the basics.
Don’t spend days and days researching and not actually writing your story. Your best bet would be to write the first draft, and then you know specifically what to fact check. You are supposed to revise and revise, remember?
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