Images Worth Writing About

I'm here in the lab wondering about time and nothing to do and writing about it.

It happens somewhat often that pretty much nothing is going on here, but yet I tend to do nothing about it. Sure, we have folks come in to use the computers, and we get the occasional question as to how they can log into the system. Usually we have correct answers.

But every now and then, a whole lot of nothing happens. Just the 2 or 3 of us here, the fans blowing, the high pitch of the rip in the background, and me checking email way too much. What's a writer, and an unmotivated one to do.

So my suggestion for those in the same situation is to not only take a nap (ooops, wrong topic). I mean take out a pen and some paper, doodle for a bit, and see what images you can get from your doodle.

It's somewhat like the clouds we used to look upto so long ago and wonder what we could see. What images those clouds formed (or at least we believed they formed something. Do the same with your doodle... but this time, write about what you see.

What does it mean? Is it really there? Why did you come up with _______ as the thing you saw? What could it lead to? What has it meant to you before? How can you use this in your next article, story, poem or humorous bit of material?

Tell us what you see.