...good bloggers are not always blogging. I think of journalists. Journalists are not always writing. In fact, most of their time is spent gathering information, etc...

I find my best blog entries are thought of in the middle of my normal (real) life. The key is keeping a good mental note or carrying a small notebook in your pocket to record ideas that pop into your mind.

The more I sit in front of the computer the worse my blogging becomes. Very rarely do I sit at my computer and stare at the screen saying, "oh come on... what should I post about now?"

I used to ski giant slalom and slalom. When you are going through a gate you are actually looking 2 or 3 gates ahead of you so you know where and how to position yourself so you don't lose your line. I find blogging the same way. I write my posts expecting they will be published 2 or 3 posts from now. This wouldn't work well on newsy blogs because you would be late on reporting. But when you have timeless material you can be publishing work you wrote days ago.

I just keep an inventory of articles and when the next one's time is up I publish it. Just the stress from having to execute a post immediately triggers bloggers blog. Knowing that what you are writing now won't be published for a few days releives that stress and eliminates bloggers block.

sremington