We woke up this morning and started a fire right-off. The temp is about 15 degrees here, -9.4 to you Celsius munchers.
We got about four inches of snow yesterday. That's 101.4 centimeters for those of you saddled with the metric system (multiply by 25.4, the thingy says). We broke out the snowblower anyway, there's some old gas in there and we'd like to use it up.
On to the things.
Plans continue apace to shut down this blog at post 5000.
We took a look at The Great Salvation of 1976 yesterday. We've been hung up on the last chapter and were hung up once more. Then we had a vision and realized the solution lay in destruction. We axed the chapter. One cut away from greatness, as Hitchcock used to say. There. That's it. The Great Salvation of 1976 is done. We think we can get the MS to the editor next month.
After that we took the first tentative steps toward writing the nuke series' third volume. That is, we created a document and wrote the years 1977 through 1981. The other day our oldest watched a documentary about the Mt. St. Helens eruption and this gave us an idea for a town dealing with the first 48 hours of the war, but this wouldn't really work with the post 75-76 narrative.
We read through the attack scenes we've written in The Final Storm: British, Italian, Aussie/Japanese. By afternoon Friday these looked a lot better than they did on Monday. Each section is 2-3,000 words. At first we thought this was too short, but we don't want to over do it, or over write it. We must needs decide what chapter of The Final Storm we'll write next week.
We did plenty of work on World War 1990: The Weser. It's almost done. We need to give Part III a readthrough this week. We'll also see if we can thread a few things into the narrative that we wanted to thread into the narrative. We'll see.
Our editor still has The Great Nuclear War of 1975. As soon as we get it back next week, well prepare it for publication. May 1st at the very latest.
We think the Ruskis are back next week from their New Years/Orthodox Christmas break. Guess we'll get back to colluding.
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