Nailsea and Blackwell

I don't know whether it's down to nerves or not, but my dreams on Thursday night were incredibly vivid. Also--for a wonder--I can remember them. Another unusual thing: in the 24 hours preceding my interview I had no less than three new story ideas. My muses seem to be back.

On the surface this would appear to be a good thing, but I'm not entirely convinced. On my way to the interview I could think of nothing else. When I should have been trying to anticipate interview questions these stories had my brain in some kind of three-way tug of war.

One of the dreams came from one of the story ideas, I think. The idea came from a conversation with Elydian, about (for a change) women. It was essentially about siamese twins and the dream had elements of that in it.

The other dream became one of the story ideas. In one of those weird half awake, half dreaming moments I was convinced that someone, I don't know who, was in trouble. I thought I heard someone screaming my name and came instantly awake. I spent the next five minutes sat up in bed trying to hear it again. I think that I can do something with that.

The third idea is the one I'm less confident with. I heard something at breakfast that got me thinking about IVF babies and miscarriages. It's a novel-length idea if I can just work out all the details, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that it's been done before. I need to think about it some more.

Seriously, the last couple of days have been very weird. I've never been so inspired or had so little time to play with my ideas.

Weston-super-Mare

Thursday: wrote my first review in about five months (if you don't count the one I did for Student With No Razor).

Friday: interview.

Saturday: nothing.

Today: going to continue critting the other piece I downloaded, post the first review, and see if Curiosity has picked up any reviews of its own.

Teignmouth

I think that the interview went alright, but we shall see in a couple of weeks whether I convinced them or not.

Newton Abbot

Hours of fun:

They Fight Crime!

You know, it's the this sort of thing that really makes the internet worthwhile for me. Simple, but funny. I will write a story based on one of the results I got.

Totnes

Coming soon: what we did on fireworks night

Later . . .