Boredom and creativity

So, between finishing uni (A 2:1, huzzah!), finding a job and actually starting said job, I have a great deal of free time, which I generally dislike. It does not take me long to find myself bored, especially with a lot of my friends either working or away, and although I have plans to cycle lots and learn the trumpet, neither of those are things that can yet take a good portion of my day.

One thing that I would like to be doing is writing. I particularly enjoy writing stories, but seem to have some difficulty getting ideas out on paper in a reasonable expanded format. Imagine being in the 1950s and thinking 'I should write a story with laserswords and spaceships' or 'what if every car could transform into a robot?'

So, for the many of you who I'm sure are interested, here are some ideas that I have that I would like to write about but have yet to develop into a story.

1. A sailing thing. I love the idea of the whole 18th century pirates thing, and the idea that small groups of pirates could worry merchants sailors while still being largely good. A small pirate band could operate from a cave and prey on large ships as they come into a heavily fortified port. There would probably be a heist in there somewhere.

2. The massive space thing. I sort of have this idea about a massive story about planets and invaders and how four books would pan out, but I feel that it is a little too big for my inexperienced writing skills. It may have to wiat until later on, despite me being about 40 pages into a 3rd attempt.

3. Pip's tale. A story about a boy who saves a slave and they run away together that I wrote in my college days but was rather terrible. I've redrafted it twice and it remains pretentious and possibly exploitative. However, I had a bit of a resurgence of passion for it last night and who knows, I may give it a go.

4. A story about Spring Heeled Jack. I love the idea of the character, in some guises a sort of Victorian Batman and I love the sort of sci-fi, victorian steampunk idea. Think sherlock holmes with more gadgets. It would probably involve a sinister school and a gang of theives, but I need to think a lot more about characters before I go in to it.

5. Another school story. I wrote a nice feelgood story about two boys who hate each other and then become friends that has been sent to a few publishers to no avail, and it would be nice to do another. IT was probably the thing that i enjoyed writing more than anything else I've done, and it would be nice to do that again. I just need a story first...

So there you go, a few ideas. Who knows, I may have something more later on