Nice post. Unfortunately I have learned that I have to do things the opposite way. I am writing a thesis, and had a real problem with procrastination, and then being depressed because I was procrastinating. But I felt like the quality of what I had to say was poor. It was only when I started writing it down anyway that I was able to improve, and stop the procrastination. It’s like I have a really high ideal in my mind, that what I write has to reach a certain level. But the fact is that sometimes by just plugging along with the low quality stuff–writing it, looking at it again, getting more information, getting feedback–I can get to something valuable.

Incidentally, thesis writing is different than blogging. But some of my favorite blogs, like Penelope Trunk’s, are interesting because she takes time with the posts, she does the research, makes phone calls, really develops them. Of course it is part of her full time job, so she is able to devote more time to it. I see a lot of blogs and comments where people make assertions that if they did 20 minutes of research, they would realize weren’t true, and could stop the flood of disinformation, or really add something thoughtful to the debate.

Good luck blogging!

I had mailed you a couple of days back, but may be it had has gone into spam folder..do have a look at it.

waiting for your reply.

Now, if I’m not in a writing mood (which happens sometimes because I often wait until 10, 10:30pm to bog), I push myself to just write some sort of realization for the day, and try to get it into three or four paragraphs. It’s not always perfect, but it helps me to focus and provides discipline, keeping me going until one of those days where I really do get inspired & write something that I feel good about.

From my experiences reading other peoples’ blogs, I’d rather write a little something every day or two, than go through one of those dry periods where I don’t write for 5-6 days.

It is tough sometimes, though.