And it happens again, I'm sure my muse is on overtime.

Bah, it's almost seven a.m. (I'm not even two sips into my first coffee yet) and my muse has just taken a big old dump on my head.

I'm almost through with my novella (The Forbidden) and I have three or four more that I have to finish writing down in order to have my collection out there. And now my muse has decided to throw me a curve ball. It's given me the bones of an idea and it's seeming harder and harder to turn down.

But that's OK, I'm use to it by now.

The only problem I have found is that the voice of this particular story - I wont give you the name just yet, but I have it - is a strong one. It wants to be told. I can hear the voices in my head, I know the characters (some are reoccurring characters taken from various short stories I've written), and, more importantly, I've got the beginning and end already formed in my head.

I try not to work on multiple stories. At least, not large ones. I have tried in the past, but crossing over from one to the other intermittently brings me little more than a headache. But now I have the bigger picture of something else perfectly formed in my head.

I shouldn't complain, but I can't help it. The machine at the back of my mind has turned into overdrive and the little fella at the center of the story - he's not really little at all - is begging to have his story told.

So now I'm going to open it up to you guys.

I can't be the only person who's suffered this first thing in a morning, before the first coffee affliction. So if you've ever faced the same problem, how did you conquer it? Is there any advice at all?

I want to get my collection out soon, it's been on the boil now for close to a year ... so what to do? What's your best piece of advice?

Thanks for reading, and have a nice day.