What Order for my Upcoming TLs?

In what order should I write my upcoming TLs?

Camelot or Camenot: Ted Kennedy runs a better campaign in 1980, and narrowly defeats Reagan in November.

Third New Deal: Humphrey '68, with an October POD.

The Impossible Dream: a much-revised, heavily-detailed FoF 2.0, including detailed coverage of UK and Canadian politics. That will eventually be my "flagship" TL.
 
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I agree with Mav's suggestion. From wheeler-dealing (LBJ) to plain old New Dealing. :p There are still POD issues to be resolved for "Camelot or Camenot", so I will likely do CoC last.

"It is the mission of each true knight to dream the impossible dream... to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong."

- Don Quixote, the Impossible Dream, Man of La Mancha
 
As you can see, I've found a photographic gold mine, and will be making full use of it. I am tentatively planning for all three to extend to the present day.

FYI, "The Impossible Dream" was the campaign song IOTL. ;)


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Don't ask.

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Here is my choice for the next TL's...I like Camelot or Camenot TL, mainly because it's seems to be the hardest one to do and that it's relativley short(If you take it up to 2012) It still would be only covering 32 years. Then that would give you time to do The Impossible Dream.

1. Camelot or Camenot
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2. The Moral Test(Don't really like the 3rd New Deal as the title). It comes from one Humphrey's last speeches he made while he was battling cancer..."It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped..."
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3.The Impossible Dream(Save the best for last)
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Then I'll need help resolving the POD issues for CoC. Don't want to start off on the wrong foot, do I? ;) I know which Presidents will be serving for both CoC and TMT, and none of them did IOTL. :p
 
1. Camelot or Camenot
2. Third New Deal/The Moral Test
3. Th Impossible Dream

Mainly because I want to see you do a President EMK TL. I supposse you aren't sure if the POD should be before or after Chappaquiddick? ;)
 
Re CoC: No, at which point in 1979 or '80. After the Hostage Crisis, the rally-round-the-flag effect kicked in to a degree. The other two PODs are straightforward.
 
Here is my choice for the next TL's...I like Camelot or Camenot TL, mainly because it's seems to be the hardest one to do and that it's relativley short(If you take it up to 2012) It still would be only covering 32 years. Then that would give you time to do The Impossible Dream.

1. Camelot or Camenot
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2. The Moral Test(Don't really like the 3rd New Deal as the title). It comes from one Humphrey's last speeches he made while he was battling cancer..."It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped..."
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3.The Impossible Dream(Save the best for last)
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I agree. Can't wait to see the timelines!
 
Not as much as I enjoy writing them. ;) Might as well make the announcement now: Camelot or Camenot starts on May 7th. Depending on my schedule, I will try and aim to start The Impossible Dream when it is most appropriate.
 
PAB: All of them will be written, but The Moral Test will be last. Giving the slower narrative pace, I expect to be finished each within a month, perhaps sooner. That way I can keep to my historical schedule- TID goes up on 5 juin, even if I finish CoC earlier. ;) I funked starting Cradling Camelot on July 27th, and I'm not making a similar mistake again.
 
Campaign posters, in the correct order. :cool: Note the half-red, half-blue RFK poster. Not coincidental.

Camelot or Camenot?

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The Impossible Dream

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The Moral Test

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I can't reveal all my tricks, can I? Needless to say that the source in question will make my TLs much more colourful than previously. :D
 
I've decided the order: Camelot or Camenot, The Impossible Dream, and then The Moral Test. I expect CoC to start on May 7th, then finish by month's end. Regardless, I will not start TID until June 5th. ;)
 
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