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I know what my next book is going to be about!

Well, at any rate, I have a setting. And a need to do a metric ton of research. But since I am now sort of okay with pre-war Japanese orthography, and since I am learning a ton of the kanji I really should know by now, I might be able to handle that research. (Not that I should be doing my overachiever thing and pushing myself to do primary research; the guy who wrote Samurai Shortstop doesn't speak any Japanese, and everyone was praising how meticulously researched the book was, and they were right. Mostly.)

This is how I always avoid working on the current book.

I have slime all over me

Used car salesmen may be the only group I have ever met who act exactly like their stereotypical representations.

I am going to maybe one more dealership and then I will try Craigslist and Carmax (though I've heard that Carmax is marginally less slimy than other dealerships, if at all).

No, I am not going to look at the cheaply built, poorly reviewed American car for $3000 more than I want to pay while the car I came here to look at is on a "test drive."