Saturday Updates

We had back to back dance recitals this week. Three blondes, ten numbers in all. Those of you who know us on FB may see the pictures and vids. We wake up with thumping dance music reverberating in our head. How about the lovely and talented Mrs. Stroock. Doing backstage mom duty ten days after a appendicitis. That is one strong-willed woman.   

Once again we didn't get to as much of The Great Nuclear War of 1975 as we would have liked. We still need to finish the Argentina chapter, just what happens to that Brit submarine? We had thought maybe the Soviets show up but it feels awkward. Why would they care either way? No, Britain and Argentina are going to have to settle things themselves. 

Right now The Weser is really coming together from a narrative point of view. We're having to move some things around but that's really no big deal. For example, Tiger 4-6 was going into action on the left of the 8th Infantry Division's front. Tiger 4-6, Colonel Tom Wilson, has some character development. But now we have them go into action on the right, where the decisive battle emerges? We basically want to get to a point where Tiger 4-6 is engaging a Soviet division, a flight of Cobras overhead, DIVARTY hammering away at the enemy.

We've spent a lot of time watching Apache gun camera footage from Desert Storm. Here you go. We're surprised how informal the chatter and back and forth is. There's a lot of, 'Larry, break left.' and 'Copy that Dave, firing.' Other tapes have more, 'Roger four-four-six engaging,' etc etc. Also, goddamn, if it doesn't look like a video game. Which is what they said back in 1991.

The Apache squadron will have some kind of decisive role. Maybe an attack on a Soviet follow-on battalion.  In the opener the Apache squadron commander takes his bird up for a morning aerial recon. In this way we show the reader what the battlefield looks like. From left to right: the field, the corridor, the farm. It doesn't matter if a Kiowa would do the scouting. We want to show the reader the battlefield.  Besides, we bet a commander would want to see things for himself. We are very good at what we do.

Right now the MLRS scenes are just there to be there. There's no there, there. The MLRS is surprisingly uncomplicated. Very modern. Basically three guys, one of whom drives, and a targeting computer. We have a book with a lot of hot MLRS action. So we're keeping them in there.

22,000 words. We're gonna get optimistic as fuck and plan to get The Weser to 30,000 by next Saturday.

[Don't give Kek that kind of material to work with, knobhead-Ed]

We'll make an offering to Kek later today. 

[A daughter?-Ed]

If we have to. Praise Kek.