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I have bitten the bullet and started pulling together all the collected research and my various thoughts about what I need in the NF book that was supposed to not begin until the Beast is finished. My brain is ready for it now and the quiet (non-teaching) period is coming up, so I thought I should just see what I have.

It's a lot more advanced than I thought it was, so I've copied everything to a USB thingie and it's now my portable NF for odd moments on busses and other transport, or for when I'm very early to class. It's at the perfect stage for this, for what I need to do with it now is think about each chapter and sort out what it needs to cover and make sure its internal structure is solid. I've been teaching the subjects in it all year (and, in fact, for quite a few years - and they have developed accordingly), and now is a very good time to consolidate what I've learned through working with various people on the subject matter (which is history for fiction writers, of course). When I've done that, I can integrate all the research I've already done for it. Then I shall find out how much work there really is to do.

I think I've just created a whole new means of avoiding tedium this summer.