Vanishing Act

So I've handed in my slightly rushed essay (deadline was this morning and I only started looking at it on Saturday evening) and my next deadline isn't for two weeks. So I'm giving myself a couple of days off. I thought I might use them to get a bit of writing done. I find it strange how I enjoy writing my own things but detest essay writing. And some kind of writer's block has developed over the years; I miss the days when I literally couldn't write fast enough to record all of the ideas in my head. The ink didn't flow fast enough to capture everything I wanted to say in that moment. And that used to annoy me; these days I'd love that to happen. It comes, just trickling from the tap instead of full force. But I thought of a new story idea, and maybe it will entrance me so much that I'll revert to my original way of writing. I've done my fair share of thinking about disappearing over the years, and I was flicking through the channels and stumbled upon a programme called 'Missing'. It's basically about people who just vanish. Drop off the planet. Fade into nothing. Leave no trace. And there was an old woman who had disappeared. One of her family suggested a way she might have vanished and it just struck me as an interesting idea for a story. I, personally, had never even thought about disappearing in that way. Somewhere in my head it triggered the 'that's a good idea' switch, so I've started a story about it. But I won't give anything away since it will probably end up on here if I ever finish it. And just for the record, I'm not thinking about disappearing anytime soon so it's not a reflection on my own life, I just liked the idea. Four little words, they could sprout into pages and pages.