Will's Good Idea for the Week of 10/13/24

Good Sunday morning, Stroock's Books faithful. The autumnal weather has arrived in earnest here in northern New Jersey. Leaves are changing. Some are falling. The weather is just perfect Yankee autumn. We love these cool autumn mornings. We'll hit the gym and then of course, watch some football. As we wrote that we realized that's there's another game on at 9:30 AM this morning, live from London.

We'll be attending a backyard barbeque at across the street this evening. 

Mrs. Stroock's Nittany Lions won an overtime squeaker against UCLA  33-30. Actually, at one point Penn State was down 20-6, so this was a nice comeback win. The skipper was pleased, and an extra rum ration issued as a result. However, in casa de Stroock we still don't mention an unnamed baseball team from eastern Pennsylvania. 

While the Nittany Lions were coming back, we read through our as yet unnamed 8,000 word short story set on New Years Day in an alternate 1946. The story is as good as we can make it under the circumstances. Recall that two weeks ago we were given two weeks to write 8,000 words. We wrote 8,000 words. Which means we can segue...

...To Will's Good Idea for the Week of 10/13/24. Sometimes we think we should put off writing post World War 1990 novels. Then we think about timelines and a daughter going to college next year. But we do think about it...No decisions have been made on final stories for War Night. We'll be editing Morning Rory all week and probably starting Salyut. War Night will almost certainly not be published this year. Not for nuthin' but we have now written three alternate WWII stories totaling about to 25,000 words. These are the above mentioned, Ambush at Lingayen Gulf, and the Hawaii thnigy in Seven Stories, Kamehameha's Navy, about a Royal Navy Hawaiian PT Boat. That's one story away from the halfway mark. Hmmm....