Blackpool
Teaching paid well enough. For the first year I lived off my girlfriend's wages as I paid off a debt I had accrued following the sale of my first house which I had gone for half the price I'd paid. It was on a notorious housing estate in Preston and after a couple of years we'd been forced out, had the house boarded up so that no one could break in and injure themselves and moved into a rented flat.
These were tough times. Teaching was difficult/impossible. I took on extra jobs to rid my self of debt more quickly and, of course kept writing.
In 2000 we bought a new house and the next year some terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Seeking revenge and a means to defeat the terrorist group in question, the US invaded Afghanistan. A couple of years later they invaded Iraq - a country with absolutely no links to the attack on the US. For me this event was significant because the time was right to relaunch my book about the Gulf War.
Re-worked and with a new title - 'Oil Wells That End Well' - I was set for global domination. It was my time to shine, to strike while the iron was hot and other cliches.
These were tough times. Teaching was difficult/impossible. I took on extra jobs to rid my self of debt more quickly and, of course kept writing.
In 2000 we bought a new house and the next year some terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Seeking revenge and a means to defeat the terrorist group in question, the US invaded Afghanistan. A couple of years later they invaded Iraq - a country with absolutely no links to the attack on the US. For me this event was significant because the time was right to relaunch my book about the Gulf War.
Re-worked and with a new title - 'Oil Wells That End Well' - I was set for global domination. It was my time to shine, to strike while the iron was hot and other cliches.
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