[BlueSkyJaunte]

OK, so I'm co-authoring a chapter for a book on which we're collaborating with a bunch of folks, and I've got to get a first draft to the editor by Friday. Then it gets passed around to the other folks writing the other chapters so we can peer-review everything.

I've gotten about 70% there, all the content is down. Now it's "just" a matter of polishing and sanitizing. It's fairly technical but not in a numbers way...more of an industry-as-opposed-to-academic view of some problems in certain fields of study.

Thing is, I AM BORED TO TEARS by my own writing. Seriously, I used to have insomnia, now I just read this dreck and it puts me right out. The tone has to stay technical and highbrow but I just can't take it anymore. The other author is no help...not gonna go into that right now.

What to do??? I'm going nuts, I think I just read the "bounced check" thread another time through just to avoid working on this. I've published papers before, but this is just pages and pages and pages of tedium...

Any suggestions?