words, words, words!

I have four stories I want to write.

One story is for the firefly_bigbang.  Having some issues...I know where I want to go wtih it, but I'm afraid I'm going to screw up the characterization.  The second is a NCIS fic, post-Aliyah, where Ziva's sister appears, alive, to ask for help in rescuing Ziva.

Then I've got two original stories, a sci-fi/detective type story, and a fantasy story.

Oh, and I've got a paying gig for a Masterplots entry on A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, Many Waters and A Swiftly Tilting Planet that is due on 24 July that I need to get done, and I *think* I'm going to get another one for The Forties in America, but I don't think that would be due until September.

I have no motivation.  Or, rather, I have the motivation, I just can't get started.  The blank screen is mocking me.  I have all these ideas, and they're good ideas, and everything keeps falling flat.  My muse is on vacation and she needs to come the hell back!