Hard day's thinking

Spent today playing around with ideas for the later books of my new series. I've already written the first five, so you'd think I'd have a good idea of where to go next!! But although I know where I want to end up, the route is still pretty murky, so I'm having to play around with lots of different ideas, explore plot lines, and basically scrabble around in the dirt of my mind in the hope of unearthing story gold!!!! That's the way it often is with writing — sometimes an entire book will hit ...