A Place of Safety-Derry/New World For Old/Home Not Home

A Place of Safety-Derry/New World For Old/Home Not Home
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Monday, July 21, 2025

Blueberries can be bland?

I went out to get milk, today, and brought back 2 bags worth of groceries, including frozen blueberry blintzes. A crepe wrapped around cream cheese and blueberry compote. Cooked up some in my toaster oven. And while they tasted okay...they were disappointing. Really more like bland. Not at all exciting.

I didn't go to Niagara Falls. I did a bit of promotion for the Smashwords ebook sale and updating of posts meant to promote it. Rescheduled a doctor's appointment because of another appointment that got rescheduled. Did some cleanup on my laptop. And nothing much else.

Except decide I'm not working on The People v. Simon Harper, anymore. The reason I had for starting it is gone, and I don't feel like going through the process of reclaiming it. I hate to abandon a story I've started, but this one is just plain nuked. 

I'll check into one of the other stories I have on tap -- Darian's Point, Dair's Window, even Blood Angel or Dirc and the Dyarvos Bones. They still have a hold on me, as do the characters, and are much closer to making sense than PvSH could even begin to be.

Of course, DDB hasn't sold anywhere near the number of copies I wanted in order to get me to return to the rest of it. And BA needs a section that will be quiet vicious in order to link it to the other parts of the story I've already written.

DP is going to be a tough one, because I want a lyrical, oral storytelling style for it...and that would take some serious work. DW is probably 60% written...maybe 2/3...I just need to work out the structure of it.

I guess I should read through what I've done and see which one's the most available to me, right now...

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