What if?

I love playing the "what if?" game. I think that's why I like to write as much as I do (and why I like my day job in marketing). Just for laughs, Sunday AM, grab your coffee, a notepad and a paper (or your laptop if you think print is yesterday's news) and start going through it.

I just saw three headlines that caught my attention since I started writing this (I'm a multi-tasker, sue me).

One of those: Scientists just did a census of the night sky and determined there are 50 billion planets in our galaxy.

• What if two buddies went on a road trip to the 1,235 estimated to contain some form of life.
• What if one night, you went outside and everything in the sky, including the moon, was gone?

Each of those two options, could then lead to other questions. Write them down. Most will be dead ends or pedantic.

But, what if, among all the bad ideas, there were something original and worth telling?