We spent yesterday afternoon taking up the basement stairs carpet and removing carpet tacks. Fun. Next up: replacing the trim, sanding and staining. We think the stairs look fine as is, but Mrs. Stroock wants them stained so....
We've been thinking a lot about writing, deadlines, and publishing. Writers we came of age following like Tom Clancy, Jerry Pournelle, Larry Bond, Mack Malony*, would go years between publishing. It took Jerry Pournelle 30 years and death to wrap up his Janissaries series. George R.R. Martin is notorious for not finishing GoT. We've got a long way to go before we're in Martin's territory.
Still, the fact is we didn't get anything out in 2021. We're disappointed in ourselves. There's a good reason for this. The Great Nuclear War of 1975 grew and grew till it split in two. Sometime around October we realized we wouldn't get the MS done in time to put it out before the new year, at least not an MS with which we'd be satisfied.
We don't know if reader(s) are tired of the book updates, but we know we're tired of writing them. It's time to publish. So this week we're getting The Great Salvation of 1976 ready to go to the editor. The Weser will be ready to go by the end of this month.
We realized we still have to write an intro and acknowledgment for The Great Nuclear War of 1975. We're tempted to write a long essay on our nuclear war and post nuclear war methodology. But no. Let people simmer. Let them wonder how and why we think what we think. We'll include an essay in volume three. Tomorrow we shall write the first 1,000 words of volume three. That's our good idea for the week of 1/9/22.
*Trashy and fun! If our parents knew what was in those books...We just wanted to mention Maloney. He generally put out a Wingman novel once a year.
My guilty pleasure was the seventh carrier series totally impossible but a fun read
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