This achieves two goals: First, I keep up a momentum (the little I have I want to keep..), and second I keep readers in an interactive level: They can write their views on what I do and maybe lead me to different conclusions alltogether.

However, I always fear and sometimes really feel that I bloat the blog with short, less-than-relevant posts.

Aviad.

One of my best posts (I think) was something I jotted down while I was going over my game plan (yes, on paper).

It ended up that the post actually inspired someone who owns a forum to use the concept within his forum.

So I think writing down an idea and saving it for future reference is a very good way of preventing writers block. And you never know how good it could be unless you use it.

Joe

amtsleiter, you are dead right, the notebook is essential, in my past I have filled about 50 notebooks whilst writing my creative stuff. I always make the mistake of not writing ideas down and thinking I can remember them but I never do.

Hung, although I agree that you must write quality there is a danger of being a perfectionist and then using the issue of being a perfectionist as a reason to not to write. But of course if you churn it out like a sausage making machine your readers would react accordingly.

One thing to remember: Quality over Quantity. If you force it too much and end up writing a bunch of low quality posts, your readers will notice. I try to stick to at least one post per day, but if I simply have nothing to write about, and I literally write about nothing, what good does that do?

But outside in the park, in coffeshops, trains, stores even with familiy or friends…I become creative. The ideas suddenly burst into my mind although I forget most of them by the time I have access to my computer. So this notebook really helps accumulating an “idea stock” for future posts.

I think the most difficult things for bloggers (or any other job at your home) are distractions and lack of discipline. I often go to a coffeshop near where I live to write my posts. I’m not distractet by undone chores, email or feeds and I can reward myself with coffee and food. Only bad thing is: It adds up to your business costs :-)

You have no idea how tired I am of going to blogs and reading “haven’t been able to post for a few days, but I’m really going to make the effort to get back on track, starting tomorrow” or “This year, I’m really going to make an effort to post at least three posts a week”.

On behalf of blog readers everywhere, may I say “Who cares?” Can you imagine CNN printing “We apologize for not really keeping up with the news lately, but promise to try a lot harder in future”.

Just a personal gripe. Sometimes it feels like there’s a huge number of personal blogs that are really about “how I blog”.