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Sal Towse (who won the pile o' books) has a weblog, and on her weblog I found a link to In Passing, which is a collection of things overheard in public. I've mentioned before how useful it is to keep track of conversations you hear for story ideas. in Passing has archives going back about five years, and many of them are simply priceless.
Spend some time browsing over there the next time you need a story idea.
In the right hand column are links to posts made on this day last year and the year before. If you take a look you'll see that I'm usually feeling pretty low and pessimistic about my future as a writer about this time.
Why that should be? No clue.
I love this time of year. Really, I do. Things growing and so much light. I love it, but it's not good for me.
/aside/ At age three the Girlchild was looking sad. I asked her what was wrong, and she said (and I quote): I'm thinking, and it's not good for me.
This is a great example of early childhood acquisition. She was experimenting with ellipses, or, more simply put: she was trying to figure out which prepositional phrases she could drop. In this case she miscalculated. She meant to say: I'm thinking about bubblegum, and it's not good for me. /aside/
Right now, as much as I love spring, it's not good for me because my mind won't settle down to work. However. Today progress will be made, if I have to close myself into a closet.