I was sitting there moaning earlier about how I never have any ideas for stories anymore. I've kind of been in a writing slump over the last month or two, since finishing the first drafts of two novels. I've written one short story and revised a few others, but not really done the prolonged writing I had got into the habit of. Anyway, I was moaning about that and about how everyone else can come up with ideas.

So we sat down together and came up with twenty new story ideas, then we chose seven each of those to write. And you know what? It was easy to come up with them. Ideas are easy, as long as you don't get hung up on how difficult it is to come up with them.

Now we'll see whether we can turn them into full stories.