Today I went in to have some x-rays done for my Chiropractor.  When I went in, the tech asked me to put on the little robe that ties in the back, and then left for a few minutes to give me a chance to change.  While she was gone, I started looking at the x-ray machine, and then my mind wandered to thinking about people in hospitals.  Then I started to wonder how many people who had come in that room before me had already died.

After that, my mind went with the standard, “I wonder how long I’ll live.  Could be 40 years, 40 hours or 40 seconds, then POOF!  The tech came back in at that point and broke my morbid train of thought, and did her thing with the pictures for a few minutes.  She was pleasant and friendly, along with being very quick and seemingly knowledgable about what she was doing.

She took seven or eight x-rays and then left again to go check them to make sure they came out.   That left me more time for my mind to go to town.  I started thinking about possible radiation coming from the machine that maybe no one knew about.  Perhaps it was taking years off my life as I stood by it and I’d never know.  Then I wondered if there was a camera in there, so I started looking around above me, searching for a lense, behind which could be a whole room full of on-lookers wondering what was on my mind.

Finally, the tech came back in and announced we were done.  She left again so I could get dressed, and I began getting mind to calm down and put my thoughts in order.  It quickly dawned on me that there is a book idea in here, somewhere.  I’ve written adventure, but never suspense, horror or a thriller.  I’m not even sure what the exact idea would be about, but “There is a book in this room,” I thought.  Maybe it can be about perspectives.  Each chapter can be about a different person with a problem who comes in the room and has a different experience.  Perhaps a ghost story about a spirit who drives people crazy when they come in the room.  Or maybe it’s the crazy tech who keeps leaving the room!  Maybe every time she leaves the room she’s zapping the person in the room with loads of radiation!

There are so may possibilities with this.  My mind went on overdrive in this room, so it’s time to get a good story going.  This is why I love to write.  Ideas come out of nowhere when you’re not looking for them, sending the mind into a frenzy.