Nothing sucks the life out of an idea like too much time and some mental dust.

I’m a free writing kind of guy, fast thoughts, rapid fire onto the the web. The usual process is: idea through to post in less than an hour. I am considering actually researching in the near future, but that does not seem like much fun. It also tends to take the spontaneity out the whole chaotic creative process.

I have three blog posts coming up that are fairly significant, but the longer they sit the more they feel like heavy lifting. The more remembering the snappy lines becomes more difficult. The particular phrasing that worked so well, falling prey to the “that’s good enough” mentality.

Now I’m not bashing the refining process, and a phased approach to things, my feeling though is that, in a such a fast paced life (one that I am currently trying to take an offramp out of into something more suburban, ideally more tropical) small quick tasks – which posts and other minor creative exercises should be, if not completed in a single push, a focused tunnelling effort, result in yet more mental detritus (I will forever think of Terry’s Pratchet’s Watchmen Troll with that word) piling up in the corners of your mind until they unbalanced, cave into your conscious mind overwhelming and suffocating you in stress, and wash you away in the tide of trying to keep up with all the billions of bytes flying through our busy busy Blackberry infested lives.

Hyperbole? We live in a world of hyperbolic proportions, my friend. Welcome to the Age of Speed: where ideas not acted upon by lunchtime, are whole industries in Asia by bedtime.