Staring into Space

I spend lots of time staring into space. Some people call this daydreaming, or worse, wasting time. I call it creative idea management: valuable thinking time when little germs of ideas ferment into Really Big Ideas.

I ran a little Google search on the subject, and the overwhelming result was either song lyrics, or parents bemoaning their child’s constant abstraction. Why does daydreaming have such a bad rap?

I’m constantly thinking. Mostly, of course, it is all very deep and profound and extremely intellectual. But just occasionally the odd amusing or trivial thought might pop into my head. That’s what these Little Fancies are all about.

And when I stumbled upon the cutest little app you ever did see, called The Amazing Type-Writer, it was a match made in heaven. Here was the perfect instrument for jotting down my little fancies (ink is messy*): conveniently digital but noisy and haphazard just like the typewriters I played with when I was but a lass.

I typed up this little note while brainstorming for names for this category on SNAP (with a little help from dear Roget). ‘Flights of fancy’ just came off the end of my fingertips as I typed, but Little Fancies it must be, to complement Little Trifles over on the other side.

I won’t normally write such long entries for these little notes (or what would be the point?), I’m just giving them a fancy introduction to validate their raison d’être.

Enjoy. Go daydream.

* Ok, yes, I do have a notebook in my bag too.