Very little sportsball yesterday, though we did catch the end of the Pats and Bucs last night. Instead we took the girls to one of those 1770s reenactor thingies. There's plenty of that stuff here in New Jersey, as one might imagine. This one was held at Stirling Manor. Lord Stirling (William Alexander) was one of Washington's best generals and something of a swashbuckler. Stirling was extremely loyal to the general. Of course Stirling was a Scot. You don't mess with North American Scots. Ever. As General Gage once said of the Rebels gathering atop Bunker Hill, 'They're a crazy Presbyterian lot out of the woods.'
October is the home stretch month for The Great Nuclear War of 1975. We intend to put the MS in formal production on 1 November. Maybe 15 December for release? Maybe. We're a tad frustrated that we may not get a book out this year, and probably won't. Then again we got three books out last year and this just means we'll get four books out next year. You people will be fine. Time to put on that 80's training montage and get to work.
Will Writes*: Don't ever listen to anyone who says, 'This is what all writers need to do.' That's total, absolute crap, probably given by someone who teaches creative writing (don't get us started on them). All writers are different. There's one rule, only one: write every day. You can take the weekends off if you want. Everything else is negotiable.
Today is Monday which means Monday Metal, which means it's time to wrap up our Guns and Roses discussion. For our final video, here's You Could be Mine, the first track released from Use Your Illusion. YCbM was also included in the Terminator 2 soundtrack. The song was important enough for Schwarzenegger to appear in the video:
*A new semi daily thing in which we parcel out wisdom accrued from 30ish years of writing.
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