Top ideas

This is an interesting post about the "top idea" in your head -- the thing that your thoughts will drift to in the absence of anything else to occupy them.

For me, it's almost always stories, of one kind or another. When I'm mid-novel, it generally ought to be the project at hand; that's how I work through my plot complications and worldbuilding ideas. But it isn't always, because sometimes my brain gets tired of all that heavy lifting, and searches frantically for something else to do. Thi...