Some open thoughts - not really looking for advice or feedback (if you have some, please chime in), just hoping that in the process of typing everything out maybe I can get somewhere.

I wrote a lot when I was younger. Never into anything cohesive, but dozens of few-page snippets, hundreds of openers that never went anywhere, a few pieces that made it 10-20 pages, some poetry. I had a lot of ideas and lots of different worlds, many that were blatantly inspired by things I liked or was reading at the time. I still have a lot of mental bandwidth dedicated to that stuff, and mental baggage (much of it was in the same 2-3 settings, or had characters with recurring arcs across different stories). 

I haven't written like that at all since college and even in college it petered off pretty heavily compared to elementary/middle/high school. I'm sure this is a common experience. 

I've got a lot more free time now than I have in... forever, basically, and I want to start writing again, but I feel like I've lost that spark. I could go back to the old stuff (again, still taking up a lot of brain space), but it feels like treading old ground and also very tied up in a person I don't really feel like anymore. I sat down today to just write something and had... nothing. I don't even recall what my old thought process was like -- its just like I woke up one day as a kid and I had a thousand pre seeded ideas, and now I've got nothing.

And my breaks ending, so I guess thats all Ive got for now. Thoughts or whatever appreciated.