Will's Good Idea for the Week of 11/14/21

The big maple tree out front is a collage of fiery red and orange leaves.  The autumnal weather here in New Jersey has been unseasonably warm, then cool, then warm again. This has wrecked havoc on the leaves. Today is the first really pretty autumn Sunday, and probably the last. 

Well, here's something I submitted to Strategy & Tactics Magazine a decade ago, published just this week:

We found the original source word doc, last edited in 2011. I really thought S&T had run out of stuff submitted in decades past to print. We've published a tonne of military history articles in a dozen magazines. Nobody else does business this way. 

One of the advantages of colluding with the Ruskis is they publish the day after submission and pay the next month. Many a night we have turned in an article and woken the next morning to see it online. Which is nice. Actually, we published a trio of military history articles with Artofwar.ru back in the 2000s. We've been colluding for a long time. We can find no evidence that these articles exist. Anyway, don't ever change Strategy and Tactics Magazine and parent company Decision Games.

Yesterday we scrolled through The Great Nuclear War of 1975 and gave all the chapters proper headings. We scrolled through an intro chapter. A couple of chapters dealing with the immediate aftermath of the war. A couple of chapters dealing with the winter prep. The Falklands chapter. Then finally the brutal winter of 1975-76. Close. 80,000 words. The Great Salvation of 1976 ain't far behind.

Which brings us to Will's Good Idea for the Week of 11/14/21. With The Final Storm taking shape, why not put it down and let it stew in December and go back through World War 1990: The Weser? That ought to about take care of things.

For that matter, we might just be in position to start something new on 1 January 2022. What would that be?