I sometimes find myself writing, typically poetry or lyrics, and there are days where it flows out akin to liquid and still other days where it is similar to squeezing blood from a turnip. I don’t think one needs to write everyday. Instead I feel you should write when the words are ready to spill. I very rarely edit what I have written as I may change the original meaning. Granted I am not blogging in the same sense that you are.

Alex

I just came across your website whilst looking at your Gaelic Lookup site, which I didn’t know about before tonight. It’s very interesting for me, as a translator, especially the fact that folk can inform you of other words that are in common usage, thus adding to your database.

Talking about blogs, I had one running for about five months at the beginning of the year, dealing with arthritis pain relief. I’ve stopped it at the moment because of difficulties with my webhost, but hope to get going again soon. I wrote on average two posts per week, but my big problem was (always has been) thinking of a topic to write about for a particular post. It probably sounds odd, but once I could resolve that problem, the actual writing seemed to flow effortlessly.

And honestly, what you write on your blog is already so much better than the vast, vast majority of what other people publish on the web (have you looked at LiveJournal, or Twitter, or MySpace, or Facebook, or most Blogger or TypePad or WordPress.com blogs recently?) that I think you should just go with whatever you want to write about and maybe make the occasional fix-up later.

Also, I’ve had an informal policy for years at my blog to try to average one post a day. Not that I have to post once a day, but that I should try to average at that. And that each post contain at least one link. I don’t always adhere to those rules (they’re mine, after all), but they make a good guideline to keep me motivated.

I’ve managed to average closer to 1.1 posts per day over the past 8 years, which is cool, or dismaying, depending on how you look at it.