Right…
Let’s see if we can do this again. The novella failed to work out the first time (and I was very stressed with RL stuff), so this time I laid the entire plot of it into Scrivener, handily spread into scenes. It will have several parts (! never done this before in a story, let’s see how it turns out), which gives me an ossature to work around. Book 2’s a little flabby, but I have the basis right, I think. Now it’s only a matter of completing the research–which I’ve largely done–and applying butt to chair.

Onwards.