I'd imagine it would be somewhat hard to write that one - Russian culture, and especially Russian military culture, is so different from American culture. I've actually only read about 2 pages of your current TL, sorry, I should read more - I'm somewhat confused as to why the Russians would ever want to invade Canada, given that the whole continental shelf dispute isn't exactly something to fight a war over and it would almost certainly mean WWIII.
I actually wrote it as a sequel/addition to ...
Cold Lake to answer alot of questions people were asking.
The big thing when I write serious stories is that normally I concentrate more on the characters, and then trust that making them and their surroundings realistic will make the rest moot.
The actual background revolved alot around a huge oilstrike in the north and the current dispute over Northwest Passage sovereignty.
I just really don't like writing politics. I find it very difficult to plot out and not get very boring very quickly, especially when I actually have the experience in the army to write operational stuff.
It's probably the mark of a weak writer, and I
should just come out and explain it someday, but to be honest, I didn't do it in the first story because it wasn't a story about how the war started. It was about the people.
That works - I was hoping to spice it up with things like my post on the last page a little rather than just "The F-226 Thunderbird blah blah blah" sort of thing, but I don't have to spend hours worrying about the plausibility of the chain of events, since it is, after all, designed to be implausible.
Totally! The great thing about this setup is that since it's starting in the early 50s we've got so much to work with from a clean slate. The Space Program, stealth, supercarriers, SSBNs and SSNs, the sky's the limit!
