But then again, the quality isn’t about the topic, it is about what and how you write

Some ideas take off and others no so much. What’s interesting is that some of the ideas I think aren’t really the best often turn into the best posts. And some of the ideas I’m most excited about end in a rather bland post.

So I am pretty content at sometimes producing an average, but still good, post. I simply know that a better one is somewhere ahead.

Frankly, I am not thinking of dropping the post-a-day schedule and switch to the ‘write-first-post-second’ schedule. This should probably relieve me of the posting schedule burden, but allow me to write both longer and shorter articles, when I feel like it. I’d imagine this variety might be suitable for my readers as well.

Not sure how inconsistent posting schedule might affect my readers’ attention, though.

Yuri I think you’re right that the more you write the easier it gets. Over time I suppose I’ve developed a style or voice for this blog and it’s become easier for me to see ideas that fit with what I write about. It’s become easier to spot ideas that are blogworthy in ordinary things.

I’m also finding it helpful to keep notes on ideas as I get them. I used to be somewhere away from the computer and start writing a post in my head only to lose eveything by the time I sat down to write. I try now to always have something with me to write or record my thoughts wherever I am and be able to come back to them later. A lot of those ideas will never make it here, but many will.

Matt I probably should do it more, but lately I’m really just thinking about writing something that I find interesting. I figure if I’m interested in it others will be too and I’ll be able to write a better post because I’m more excited about the topic. I’ll let everyone else judge if it’s been successful, but it seems to me like it has been.

I’ve been blogging for close to 10 months now and I’ve been able to see my progress over that time. There’s certainly always been a mix of post quality during any time I’ve been writing, but I do think the overall quality has improved. It’s not to imply that I’m anything so great, but rather that the more you keep blogging the easier it becomes to find ideas and be able to write about them.

I’m no different than anyone else though, in that some days it’s just harder to come up with something to say than other nights. Tonight was one of those nights for example. I was tired after a long day and since I had posted twice yesterday I took the night off. I try not to do that, but it does happen.

I, for one, was just posting about anything I felt like it for several weeks. Untill I got some work to do, that’s when I skipped a couple of posting days.

Lately, I noticed that I think about any more or less amusing event in my life as an opportunity to blog. Too bad my blog is about improving the Web, or otherwise I’d be blogging day and night.

You know, maybe I should have some ‘read and research’ kind of days, when I just seek for topics to cover.

Most of the things i blog about come from either seeing someone else blogging about it and me thinking “i could write about that” or reading a post on a forum and thinking “wow, there is a lot of misinformation about this topic” then i blog to, i hope, clear it up for people (or at least give my own misinformation a chance).

I do enjoy that feeling i get when i think of a subject that i suspect will deliever a fair amount of backlinks and visitors. They tend to be the “list of things” type posts.
Some people feel that listing things is blog filler, But you can draw a crowd sometimes simply by listing a bunch of things they like all in one place.