When does research become an excuse not to write?

Generally when you have not plotted out your novel.

I had an idea.  I thought that idea was great.  By page, 80 things had changed.

When I first wrote a novel, before I switched to screenplays I believed in that novel.

Twenty years later, it remains uncompleted.  Will the same happen to this third novel?

Siolam was my first completed novel.  Time and money, money and time.  With a lack of sales, I somehow am motivated for this third novel.

I do not feel compelled to complete it.  Nor do I feel compelled to write a play that needs to be produced or a screenplay that needs an agent/manager for an option or sale.

Maybe I will take my research and write a nonfiction book maybe not.

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