La Vie Boheme

Stalled on "Blue Lady". Utterly,

Stalled on "Blue Lady". Utterly, utterly stalled. I know who the protagonists are, I know who the antagonist is, but I have no idea why they're opposed or how they'll act on it. So it's getting shelved for now.

On the up end of things, though, I started a new story today based on an idea I had back in November. In the process of starting it, I realized that this story was set in the same coastal city as "Midsummer". Now, I liked the city I vaguely described in that story, it had a real shape in my head, one that made me happy. I thought about using one of the characters in other stories. Then when I started work on this story this morning (which has no title yet), I realized where it was set, and the city just started to come to life. The city's name is Harper, and it's set somewhere in the southeast, possibly North Carolina or South Carolina. It's a midsized sort of place, with maybe a small college. A favorite tourist spot, too. And there's all sorts of quirky little things going on behind the scenes that most ordinary people never see. :) Like selkies dancing on the shores. And muses brewing up ideas in coffeeshops. And gnomes printing quaint tomes of curious lore. I think I like it here.