I'm in a really nice place now storywise: I have two fully fleshed short story ideas waiting to be written, and I'm excited about them both.  Normally, that doesn't happen.  Since I work on something every day, my usual procedure is to finish a project, and then on the next day not have a clear direction, so I'll tell myself that I'll work on a crummy little idea I've had rattling around, something that will probably be a piece of flash fiction or just  a throwaway exercise, until a good idea comes along.  Inevitably, though, the crummy little idea becomes more interesting as I go, and by the time I finish it (often time thousands of words later), I like it.

I do keep an idea file, so when anything strikes my fancy, I add it to the file, but what goes in there is often a single sentence or an image, and by the time I look at it again, I've lost whatever impetus made me add it to the file in the first place.  That doesn't mean I don't write based on the idea, but it won't be what I was thinking (probably) when I put it in the file in the first place.

If you read Ken Rand's, From Idea to Story in 90 Seconds, you'll see why not having a bunch of fully realized ideas floating around in my head isn't a problem for me, nor should it be a problem for anyone else.  I never feel like I'm out of things to write, even when I don't know what it is I'm going to write.

So, how is it for you folks?  Do the story ideas line up like baseball fans at the World Series ticket booth, or do they trickle out more slowly?