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I have written and not posted three LJ-posts this week. The main problem is that I have nothing to say that I think will be interesting and I haven't actually finished writing The Epic Wedding Story.

I mean, I've been busy. I've been out and about and doing stuff and yet none of it really seems postable.

I've been fannish. I've mainlined S1 and S2 of Primeval over the last three weeks and cannot work out why I didn't try it before. There has also been Robin Hood-ish highs and lows.

Plus my aunt wanted to know whether I wanted to watch Merlin, which she recorded for her son and she thought I might enjoy. Heh :-D

There has been tennis to squee over, although I'm a couple of days behind because TSN's idea of tennis coverage is laughable and other sources take a while.

There has been knitting progress. I finished my pretty pink tunic - photos are forthcoming - and debuted it at knit night yesterday. Also I knitted half a sock and ripped it back after finally realising why my socks keep coming out too big: I measured my foot an inch too big around when I made my first one and have assumed all the issues since were due to tension rather than basic measurements. Still have no idea how I got the measurements so badly wrong.

This week has sucked mightily due to my back and hip, but it's the same story that I've been living with for over three years so why blog it?

So, yeah. Plenty going on but I just haven't felt like any of it is LJ-worthy. Or something.

Watch me wibble and be freaky. Or hormonal. Or just plain exhausted.

I have actual writing ideas

I know what I can talk about - writing! Having had my post-Big Bang ennui, I'm now starting to get some ideas for what I want to do next.

The first is for an original thing, possibly a novel. It was inspired by some ideas from gmul, although more an amalgam of a couple of his ideas. I'm living in a coastal city with a large natural harbour. Oddly, this leads to there being a signficant amount of shipping since the first settlers arrived. It's also an area with very tricky tides, hidden rocks and lots of little islands. Plus a great deal of fog. All of this leads to a phenomenally huge number of shipwrecks.

So I'm planning to do some research because there has to be a good story in this somewhere. At the moment I'm thinking along the lines of ghostly adventure of some kind set in modern times, although my opinions change when I've got some research done. As I the original stuff that I write is usually set in fantasy or futuristic worlds, I figure this will be a bit of a departure for me.

Current plan is to research and try to get an outline with character prep done for November and then see whether I can use NanoWriMo to get a decent chunk of the writing done.

I've also got a tentative idea for a fanfic: Bambera meets Faerie. No, not the fairies from Torchwood. And not pretty glowy fairies. The Faerie that I'm thinking of is more like the one in Elizabeth Bear's Promethean Age novels, dark and horrible and beautiful and sinister all at once. So far, I've blasted a hole in the M25, given some thought about where 'Battlefield' fits in with the timeline and decided that it will probably feature Ten but I haven't quite decided whether or not it's post-Donna.

For this one I also need to do some research into Faerie mythology, the Wild Hunt, Unseelie, Sidhe and possibly the Tuatha de Danaan. If anyone has any good texts to recommend - collections of stories and meta analysis are equally welcome - that would be awesome. I'm quite excited about this story and it's equal parts excited about the mythology stuf and the chance to write Bambera again :-)

So, I have ideas. None of them are short, quick-fix ideas though...