Who has time for fundamentals

How much more fulfilling it is to write than to read. 

Whilst not having the professional finished glaze of a fully paid up journalist or writer, still less the expertise of the expert, I still feel a stronger pull to expressing my own feelings than to read something similar from others.

Where do the words and phrases come from. 
You might start with an idea, something you saw, something you heard, something you dreamt but as the words go down on the page the piece begins to take on a form of its own. Words create avenues of thought, they glean new insights into what you think, they lead you on like a temptress into new fields of thought.
It's as if in the barrier between the conscience and the sub conscience is porous, a leaking membrane of reconstructed ideas and thoughts that tumble out to be digested and made whole by linking it with conscience experience.
It's quite exciting to read back and see how your hypotheses has developed with the telling. How the construction grew, a window fitted here to let new light in and a door there to gain access to another related idea. It's a journey which is founded on much we knew but is now embellished with other ideas, the reading of which make one smile with satisfaction or grimace with embarrassment if the conclusion has revealed more of oneself than you wished.
The difficulty is knowing when to stop and that of course begs the question "do you write for yourself or for the reader". If it's for yourself with an eye to the reader then given the impossibly short attention span of people today used to having their minds prompted by the television it's hard when many people complain my blog pieces are too long. It's the age of Twitter and the abbreviated code of text speak. The shorter the better. It's as if we had entered a world where there is a continuous firework display, ideas shooting off into the sky the substance of each subsumed by the next wiz bang. There's no pause, the noise of the display is enough, no cognisance is needed as the image is enough. Substance is an anathema it takes time and effort and anyway the scene is changing so fast who has time for fundamentals.