Blog Posts - easily developing content Part II

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If I get a good idea for a topic, I try to start writing immediately if possible.

I don't correct much as I go: syntax, grammar, flow, spelling, logic, etc. When stuff is getting written down I let it get written down. I correct and improve later.

I get good ideas in strange places. Traffic jams seem to be especially productive! I almost always carry paper and a pen so I can jot down ideas or outline a post. It doesn't seem to matter if I jot down ideas on a piece of paper I lose – that "writing down on paper" itself helps enormously in remembering.

I have no time deadlines. I have quality deadlines. If I don't like it, I don't use it! I've been known to sit on a fairly finished and polished piece of writing for a couple months until I'm happy. Sometimes that requires rewriting from a different angle, sometimes it requires little or nothing.

I often have multiple pieces I'm writing. Sometimes I won't touch something I've started writing for weeks. Having multiple choices increases the chances I'll finish something sooner rather than later!

I'm NOT a great or fast writer! Although I went to a great high school, in college I ended up in a remedial English class. 90% of everyone in class was from an inner city school and/or spoke English as a second language, and most of them wrote better than I do. They probably still do!

I will add, I write infinitely better than I did when I started blogging in 2004! Practice helps improve, especially if you ask for feedback from friends willing to be honest instead of polite.

Part III - writers block, here