Seeing things under a new light

Last night, after emailing (again) my submission for Vamprotica 2005, I threw a little "pity party" to cheer me up. Popcorn. Soda. A Brad Pitt movie Troy. Hmm... Can it get any better? *vbg* Now the whole Vamprotica contest is behind me. I'm trying to focus my energies on two upcoming contests: Liquid Silver Books - Zodiac Contest and Ocean Mist Press's Let's Make Waves. As far as I'm the zodiac contest, I'm in a quadrantry. Too many good ideas, too little time to develop any. I started writing one which begins with the heroine's friend reading the horoscope. Not bad. But it's the way most of the stories published already are starting, so I want to try something different, which brings me to idea #2. This one is (very) tricky. I can make the setting either futuristic or fantasy. On either one I can incorporate the ideas of these Boris Vallejo's images. Both are really good, and I'm tempted to try both and see where each leads. But I've got 7 days left, so the whole exploration thing seems out of the question. As for the Ocean's Mist Press Let's Make Waves Contest, I looked through my files and found an old mermaid romantic comedy I wrote last year. It's not finished yet, so I went over it but realized I can't finish it in 10K words or less. So I just might skip this contest and go for their Halloween contest instead. Today, as I was fooling around this online tarot reading, the Death card came up and an idea for a vampire story was born. If there are no constrains in the word count, I think it might be perfect. I don't have a title for that one yet, but I came up with a title for a vampire romantic comedy while listening to an old rock song on the radio. *lol*