I don't think I'd have the stamina for historical fiction.

I've tried before and it's almost always burned out. It's not so much that I need all the information I research for—it's that I feel so uncertain about even the details of everyday life, I wind up checking everything; I never know what I'll need. For example, almost nothing about the German invasion of Crete, Unternehmen Merkur, made it into the finished story. But I still read several articles about it . . .