EXACTLY. You'd kinda have to almost make a caracature of
  yourself to do any editing - a cardboard cutout version of
  yourself that is two dimensional, to do any editing. Ideas,
  writing, they are living / breathing entities. That's actuallyi
  what the nature of my writing will be about - keeping ideas
  alive through the whole process of the thought impression, which
  seems to last 2-4 seconds in the ...brain before you have to
  start repeating it to yourself and not forget it - the process
  holding it lon eough to write it down - and all that in entails
  to set up your life to make sure that you can collect each
  thought - this includes tricks and practical techniques and may
  even mean not just keeping index cards around everywhere but
  also eating the right foods to put your brain in the optimum
  stage - but also how to then organize it all - or allow ... "