Story Concepts, Or Why Othello keeps smacking me while I'm typing and not paying attention to him

Here's a few SF/F story concepts I hope to take all the way to fruition in the next however-long....

1) A Stair of Tarnished Silver. A full-on recreation of the Homecomings novel I wrote in high school. Tremendously more on this to follow, because (sadly) so much of this exists in my head and not written down anywhere, I need to get it down, but cannot in a succinct format. Hence the reason it's not on a bookshelf somewhere below George R. R. Martin's books.

2) The Saga of Beogryn Frostclaw. A Warhammer 40k Space Wolves series. Bill King did good things with Ragnar Blackmane, but the pair of guys who have followed him are making a travesty of it, and I think I can do better. Much better. But it needs to be a clean slate. Besides which, a new protagonist removes any sort of bizarro constraints left over by King, while enabling me to start with just the background material.

Update: Jim Wraight is doing a workman's job of things, now that Dan Abnett has done a full reboot of the Rout. I may still end up writing Beogryn's Saga at some point, however.

3) An Inquisitor Novel or series. A newly-minted inquisitor and his inherited warband go up against the dark environs of the 41st millennium and all its inherent trickiness.

4) I, Nephilim. Your average, everyday guy, who just happens to have an angel in his family tree. The world is something like what you might expect the world of American Gods to be like, except the old timers haven't given up the ship. They've just gotten trickier and greedy in their old age.

5) I, Dreadnought: the Autobiography of Bjorn the Fell-Handed. This might fit in well with the Horus Heresy series from the Black Library Press, if done correctly, once I have something to hang my hat on in terms of continuity....

6) My own whole-cloth SF story. Taking naval combat and splicing it with SF capabilities in a way no one has yet. Unique, redefined ideas on what FTL/interdimensional drive systems do, unique cosmologies, political structures, etc. This is where you get your starfighters and huge capital ship scenes, your running gun battles through strange new worlds with intergalactic versions of Rick's Cafe American. This is where I hit reset and start over from some to-yet-be-conceived version of 'from scratch.'


See? Six separate SF/F ideas. And they're all yet to be written.

The approach: I'm going to post up progress reports and journal entries on progress and pratfalls. Those of my readers who seem to have an interest in this thread who respond will get copies of the writing. We discuss, problematize, etc. Maybe it keeps me working; maybe it drives me to another project temporarily. Either way, at least I'm working, right? And if you give a hang, you get to see what's going on.

Anyhow, that's the present list. Feel free to fire feedback my way via comment or email.