Will's Good Idea for the Week of 11/17/24

Good Sunday morn, Christian faithful. We had a typically and blessedly boring Saturday, the highlight of which was an Arturo Fuente and bottle of Cavalliere d'Oro. Probably not wise, but what the heck. That's our 25th Arturo Fuente this year. So were averaging one every two weeks. Which is fine. 

Speaking of blessings, the Giants don't play, the Eagles already played, and Penn State annihilated Purdue. We've never been less interested in the NFL, and are looking forward to folding laundry this afternoon while listening to the great Stephen L. Miller podcast. 

We read through a bit of War Night on the deck yesterday, getting to the Razorback-1 story about a Titan II nuclear missile silo in Arkansas. What we read looked pretty good. We've noticed some of the stories feel much smoother than others. Why can't the less smooth stories be more smooth? We don't know - yet. 

We're locked in as the kids say. War Night is 10 stories and 64,000 words. We took a risk with The Great Nuclear War of 1975 and that risk has been rewarded. Take risks Mr. Trump said during The Apprentice. And so we did. And so we are with War Night: Stories of the Great Nuclear War of 1975. And if War Night does well, we'll take another risk with another nuke short story compilation. Everyday we lean more toward wrapping up War Night. 

Ah...but what else? What else? We've been locked into World War 1990 and The Great Nuclear War of 1975 for so long we've had no time to write anything else. And we have ideas. 

And what is Will's Good Idea for the Week of 11/17/24? As we promised we're going to blog about ideas all week here at Stroock's Books in a desperate and probably futile attempt to have a fresh project for the 2025 summer sneak in. 

Here's one...what about a novel about a second Korean War? The twist...or hook...is that this novel would be an alternate history. The urge, the flash, the juju is vague but it's there. [You already did that?--Ed] We did? [Yes, in The Aftermath of 1976-Ed]. Fuck, we did. [And don't you remember toying around with an idea like that on this very blog waaay back in 2017? Tiger's Tail?-Ed] We do. [But what if you wrote a one off alternate history novel about some other war?-Ed]. Which war? Upon this notion we shall dwell as we lift weights in the manliest way possible this morning.