Oh boy. I have real sympathy for this woman because she simply told the truth, or at least her understanding of it, and now she’s in the free-fire zone for the robot wars.
At 5.31pm yesterday I sent Audible the first draft of Sleeper Agent 2. For a bridging book it came out remarkably fast and easy at the end. Origin stories are great fun but they can lead to the dreaded Difficult Second Novel trap.
Not so this time. I think I know why it went so smoothly. I had a Julia Duffy/Dan Black moment about half way through. Unplanned, and massively counter to what I actually did have planned, but I decided to roll with it.
I stole this from Mattew Keith on the Book of Face, because it greatly amused me. And now it can amuse you.
I turn, gulp, 60 this year, so this bit in The Times (UK, not US) really hit all my pain points when I was lying in bed, sipping my morning tea, reading it yesterday. It’s paywalled and impervious to assaults by the 12 Foot Ladder, but I can summarise it for you.
Saw this on the hell site formerly known as Twitter. Confirmed by Canada’s military history magazine, Legion.
Not everyone has my devotion to immediately consuming the show the minute it’s available, so we’ll wait. Anyone who is interested in eventually getting in on the Zoom call, let me know. Buck will wait.
