Hitting the Books

Now that I’ve gotten that cry of frustration out of my system…here I am in Newport, Rhode Island. I thought this was going to be the perfect location for two of my books, but I’m running into issues again. Namely, that nothing happened here during the War of 1812, at least, not anything important. And I have to have a reason for a British officer to hang around town during that war. I can make the Revolutionary War section of the books fit (sorta–not as nice a fit as I would like. Not like I got the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry to fit in my other book), but not the other end. does this mean I need to go to Salem or Boston after all?
It’s just an extremely disheartening day–half the places I needed to go were closed for the season, and I’m sick, and feeling guilty for dragging my poor wee Punkin all the way up here (12 hours in a carseat has got to be miserable when you’re too young to really do anything back there) Sigh. Double sigh.
Well, back I go to the drawing board.

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