You've Got Thirty Seconds To Sell Me On This Dept.

The other week, I finished the firstvery messy,very crude outline forAlways Outnumbered, Never Outgunned.I've learned not to let such things bother me; the initial steps with anything new (especially something this much of a left turn for me) need to be messy and undisciplined, the better to let them come into whatever full flower they have to bloom into. Let that happen first,then prune.

Next week, and through January perhaps, I'll be rewriting the outline and making it into something that s...