If It's Wednesday, it's Will's Writing

A nice glide like hour on the treadmill yesterday. As we suspected our foot problems went away after the first few minutes. It's almost easy, but we're interested not in speed, but time.

Qbi Wan says keep an eye on Bibi. Things are happening. He couldn't go into further detail. He also says watch closely the Capitol Hill Mostly Peaceful Protest trials. We asked about The Chauvin Show Trial and Qbi Wan told us to back off. These people are prickly as hell, and with considerable justification. Whenever he feeds us intel, reader(s) should always ask why. What is the agenda? What is the plot within the plot? We're using Qbi Wan and Qbi Wan is using us. Q gets to funnel information through us and we learn cool stuff. Yes, we're sitting on intel, some with hard release date, some with a soft date. We'll have something new next week.

Lots of lazy and lackadaisical writing in The Final Storm so far. There's a lot of flyboys standing around the tarmac, drinking coffee and saying to one another,  guess this is the big one.  But we had something of a breakthrough yesterday and are kinda-sorta encouraged/enthused. The situation in-toto is not that bad.

This is nice to see:

As to Defend the Earth was our first novel that sold, we've never understood why TSTE didn't. Which just goes to show that book sales are not a science but an art. TSTE became our wayward, unloved novel, and any sales at all are a thrill. You know, A Line Through the Desert, gets decent and steady sales now? Huh. Most gratifying. World War 1990: Castro's Folly has moved into the second slot, which just proves our theory of new readers coming in. Those that started Arctic Storm have moved ahead in the series.

Life continues to mimic Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea. The JPost reports: Israel notified the US that it is responsible for the Tuesday attack on an Iranian cargo ship affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, an American official told The New York Times..."The Saviz civilian ship was stationed in the Red Sea region and the Gulf of Aden to establish maritime security along the shipping lanes and to counter piracy," said the spokesman. "This ship practically acted as a logistics station (technical support and logistics) of Iran in the Red Sea, and therefore the specifications and mission of this ship had previously been officially announced." Israeli commandos swam up to the ship and attached lipid mines. Ok we never had them do anything like that in War of the Red Sea.  Perhaps we have been underestimating the Jews? The Imams are right, the Jew is clever. 

Yes, yes, we might still do a third Israeli novel this summer. There's no business reason not to write the damn thing. Reviews for War of the Red Sea trickle in. We find these most encouraging, like a woman being asked up to a hotel suite with a great view. [You know that sort of thing really does work-Ed]. We know. We are masters in the art of seduction [Sorry folks. Sometimes all you can do is play along with this knobhead and hope he goes away-Ed].

Saturday Updates

Spring is finally here and we're looking at several days of 50-60 degree weather. We and the Stroocklettes will, repeat will, be spending a lot of time outside. We shaved our winter beard:

It was an experiment that lasted about six hours. We ain't no Tom Selleck.

Well it's time to come clean about something. All this week Mrs. Stroock has been caring for a sick relative in Indiana and will remain there for some time. It's the six of us here at New Jersey Command, me, three girls and two cats. 

There probably won't be anything on Substack for a while. We're working on a piece for the Politburo this weekend. I want my Bibi, my Bibi, my Bibi....

The Vietnam War reading has been slow but interesting. We're looking forward to getting to a book about the Easter Offensive. After that Black April. Then what?

Our QAnon sources have been quiet for the last few days. The cliché is that when the enemy goes quiet then he's preparing something. But in our own experience Q uses chatter as cover. So iff Q is quiet there's probably nothing happening. Qbi Wan did tell us to be patient and reminded us, 'You're ears can deceive you. Don't trust them.'

We ended up not working at all on the '76 chapter yesterday. There's  little we can do to it at this point. The political outcome chapter remains. We added two Ulan Ude scenes and need at least two Matt scenes. That is the last time we'll look at '76 for a while. 

Next week we work on the '75 Falkland's chapter and that ought to be just about it. Don't even ask. We won't consider releasing '75 till '76 is done and probably not till the third volume is down too. At this point 2022 figures to be the year Will Nuked America.

We've begun prepping for World War 1990: The Final Storm. This entails watching Youtube clips of F-111 and Tornado strikes. April.

Sales rose a bit after a few weeks of decline and plateau. Interestingly World War 1990: Arctic Storm is now our number two selling book. That's a great sign as readers will plow through the series. Some of the spike must be happening because people are picking up Nederland as a stand alone novel. 

Saturday Updates

An hour on the treadmill yesterday.

We're on Spanish lesson 9. Things are going well. We can introduce ourselves, ask directions, order dinner, etc etc. 

The Vietnam War reading project has slowed. Not sure why. We will press on. 

We opened an account on VK. Why not? We're mostly interested in meeting some Ruskis. We suppose this is self Kompromot.

Seeing that we're bitten by the travel bug again, Mrs. Stroock said, 'You know, if you want to take a week and go someplace by yourself, you can.' She's told us this before but we could never figure out where to go. Yes this is Kara and Nate related. Maybe this fall? [Who are you kidding. You like being home with you're family-Ed] True, but maybe try it once, just to see? [Ok, that's not bad thinking-Ed.] But where? Someplace in South America? 

Killer Andy C. is done, right? We think Killer Andy C. is done. On the broad political front this blog vacillates between we're doomed and calm down. We shrug. 

We made some interesting contacts in the Q Commune this week. We introduced reader(s) to an individual we call Qbi Wan. Qbi Wan put us in touch with a person we'll call Qbert. The allusion there is important. Qbert does things. We admit to being used, but also intrigued. What we know about these individuals we know because they want us to know it. 

Just about all that remains to finish on The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is the Falklands chapter. We anticipate doing that in a week or so. We'll need to go back and make mention of a few items to set up in The Great Salvation of 1976 described below.

We have one more chapter to read through in The Great Salvation of 1976. Right now the novel stands at 62,000 words. We're adding scenes about the Soviet city of Ulan Ude and probably some kind of anti-warlord task force. One of their targets will be Vacaville Prison, where Charlie Manson is running things. 

Yesterday we outlined The Weser. For the record, we never outline. We also did some outline work on Israel Strikes: War with the Turks. Once again, the summer sneak in idea isn't about what we want to write but what we can write. In April we switch back to The Final Storm no matter what.