Writer's Block...still

I hate this feeling. I wouldn't call it "writer's block" so much as "idea block." It's not like I can't write. I can edit, the creative process is still flowing. It's just that I am officially "between projects." There's no way I can explain how much I hate that feeling. I'm waiting for my prior project to be editing by my loyal personal editors, and I've got NOTHING in my head to start.

It drives me crazy.

Well, that's not true. Wait, yeah, it does drive me crazy. That part's true. The part about having NOTHING in my head isn't quite true. There's an idea there...something that may even, one day, be decent. But for some reason it just won't come. I don't do that thing where you stare at the blinking cursor on the page---that's just depressing. But i brainstorm long-hand, and even when I look over the notes I made a couple of months ago, I don't really feel anything for it.

For anyone who knows me really well, they know how strange that is for me. Usually when I have a new project, especially notes on a new project, I get excited. I want to start, I want to pursue, I want to write. Sometimes it's slow-going, but it's going all the same.

Not now, though. Oh, no, it's just...standing still. The idea is there, but for some reason it won't move.

Ugh. I don't really know how to explain it; it's just getting frustrating.

Anyone got any ideas for something short, like a short story or an essay? Or novel ideas are always welcome...