Over-working, Restraint, and Self-Curation - a quick thought (with a long title)

 I spend a lot of time thinking about my art, it makes me happy, and it numbs the sometimes tedious nature of my 'real' life. The risk, of course, is overworking at the conceptual stage - generating to many ideas that the message is lost.

But...

The risk of over-working is in using the ideas, not generating them. Having lots of ideas is good. Knowing which to keep is vital. Surely the point of 'process' is to generate ideas, but also to discard the average ones for the good ones, and to use as few of the best ideas as possible to get the message across? Tathos needs the freedom to create and make ideas, Tomgos reflects and curates and restrains.