Advice for Fun and Profit

[vanity-lost.livejournal.com]

I know we have a ton of writers and writerly types in this group. Almost all of whom are talented like whoah. Plus just lots of intelligent, snarky peoples. So, I was wondering... 

If you could give LKH one piece of advice (literary or even otherwise I guess) what would it be? 

Or alterately... what's the best piece of writing advice you've ever gotten and how does Mad Ms. Hamilton violate it? 

Because seriously I sometimes wonder what her series would look like if someone was standing next to her with a 2x4 of Literary Wisdom. You know, someone to go "Peachy, darling, now just what the hell does X have to do with the main plot?" or "That's redundant. Delete and rephrase." 

There are some things that just seem so elementary going wrong- like time and characters popping into scenes they weren't in a moment before, but how to fix it?

Okay. I am stepping away from the keyboard now before the Nyquil takes further control.

Comments

[dinsedaledarby.livejournal.com]

I see your point but i didn't mean it to be the be all end all of advice. It's just basic stuff.
Original is hard to do and also have nothing to do with flying pigs which I am aware of.
;)