I am expressly not NaNoWriMoing. I am, infact, NaNoNotWriMoing.
Therefore if someone could explain why I have 5k of an entirely new project currently sitting in a notebook in my satchel, that would be awfully helpful. Especially since since, to write more than 5k, and this will cause some problems.
Problem singular in honesty, as my issue with research is pretty much uni-fold: I am not very good at it.
Oh I find out the information I need. I also find out a multitude of minutia, such as the melting point of Boron (2076ºC), the diameter of the largest Catherine Wheel firework (85ft), that the motto of Żebbuġ, Malta is 'Semper Virens' - Żebbuġ itself being twinned with the Sicilian town of Agìra and that I could read about Carl Linnaeus for hours and all the time be convinced that I was making progress.
This weekend my jumping off points are to include: Brothers Grimm/Hänsel & Gretel, Theseus, King of Athens and the history of the London Underground.
This will likely devolve very quickly indeed into gingerbread recipes, thread counts for bedsheets and challenging people to impromptu rounds of Mornington Crescent.
