Land of Half-Finished Thoughts

For a while, I had been jotting down potential blog topics in Outlook via TEO (http://www.tabletoutlook.com/). But l realized I only got back to a handful of them, so I started creating Windows Journal documents for each idea. That way I'd at least have started them and could quickly bring them up in My Recent Documents list. Turns out that's not working so well either. The issue is not that I'm overlooking these ideas, but rather I throw out more ideas than my level of interest can sustain. New ideas generate immediate interest that can carry me through even crappy ideas if I have the time to pursue them on the spot. However, most of these ideas are passing whimsies that lose value like a new car driven off the lot. The exceptions are those ideas that start slow and build over time. Like a tumor, such an idea grows and mutates in the back of my mind until it becomes strong enough to be extracted and survive on its own as an independent mass of pulsating gray matter. Okay, maybe that analogy isn't quite accurate but often I have ideas that develop and grow before I write them down. These survive better over time than the neuron sparks that come and go like lightning and are now littering my folder of blog topics.

CateGoogles: Ink Blogging Mood = bemused