He found the prospect of disaster terrifying. They looked around for detailed existing solutions and found just one: But that, the two engineers realized, would probably feed the global population for a year or less.
I spoke to Pearce to find out some of the very gooey ways we might survive the apocalypse. What kinds of disasters do you think about? Let me take the most likely one: Say two countries that both have access to nuclear weapons get very angry at each other, and then retaliate, destroying most of the major cities in the opposite country.
The vast bulk of humanity would survive, eventually. Say maybe we lost 5 percent of the population. Ninety-five percent of us would still be alive.
And all the crops fail. But our standard crops? Your wheat, your rice, your corn? For example, in Japan they have warehouses that just have racks of lettuce growing under LED lights, and that would still work, but what fraction of the population would that feed? Where the Hell is the plot?
What is my timeline? Am I writing the story, or is there an alter ego that is writing? Now, I did try to just let the words flow out of my head and through the keyboard to the screen. Finally I achieved a tiny turn, just a bit. The flow was a very thin, very slow dribble. One miserable drop small drops! The first 35 words took an hour.
I felt as if blood was forming, beading on my forehead. I kept trying to open the spigot. More and more flowed. I filled a page! I was getting the hang of this writing gig! After that I opened it up all the way and just let it all gush out. My natural way style of writing is to write very long, complex sentences. Commonly I write to answer questions. I learned that in college as a good way to bullshit my way past, over, and through the guardians of the halls of academia. Believe me when I write this. On the occasion of going back and looking at a LOT of that early material, it was terrible.
Once I deleted 44 pages of garbage with one click.
I divided the book into two volumes. Then I put it in a CD to ripen. Or, rot as the case may be. I took it out a couple of years later and asked a friend to read it. Then I again put it in a CD to ripen some more. Take a deep breath. Then I wrote another book. And then three more. Book two, I spent a lot of money on with a literary agent. That wasted over a year with no result beyond bills and cashed checks. Cashed checks are really valuable, as they teach a valuable lesson. Do not do that again. Book four, I published with a vanity press company. I also had more cashed checks, and a smaller bank account.
I bought some of the books and gave them away. I have a couple incomplete fiction novels. Gerard Richard E. Tom Wright Steven Seagal Kasia S Pier Giorgio Bellocchio Jeffrey Dean Morgan Uma Thurman Murray Hamilton George C. Eduardo Husni Carlos Kaspar Brent Black Lauren Steventon Wi Ellen Albertini Dow Laura 1 Jarrod Pistilli Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas.
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