Damn, I got a great idea this morning.
Looking through the Pershing MS, I was rereading the chapter on Poncho Villa and the Battle of Columbus, New Mexico when it hit me, A Ride Through Mexico. Like A Line Through the Desert and A March Through Hell, a character driven book about the Poncho Villa campaign. This only became feasible when I had the title and there it was, A Ride Through Mexico.
Lots of fodder there; the Battle of Columbus, the follow up chase and then of course, Pershing and his Poncho Villa expedition.
I recall the great Kathy Shaidle, commenting on a Brit writer saying she gets ten good ideas a year. Shaidle scoffed at the idea. So did I. I get ten good ideas a day.
This is why the World War series, originally supposed to be a one off book, is now going to be at least five books.
Honestly, when I feel the idea rising up from the depths I think, 'oh no, not another one.' Resigned to my fate I sigh, make a note and think, 'Okay, some I'm going to have to write that now.'
Put it on the list.
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