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ses5909
08-23-2007, 08:03 AM
I was writing a post today for TBE and I realized I created an outline first of the points I wanted to make and then I expand on those. I do that quite frequently for this blog and other technical posts at other blogs. For personal blogs though, I just let it come out.
Dan Schulz
08-23-2007, 08:17 AM
Same as you.
goldfries
08-23-2007, 08:46 AM
Q: How do you write your posts?
A: I use my finger. They click on various keys on my keyboard, which is connected to my computer, which is connected to the Internet and keying them into my blog..........

LOL ok i was trying to be funny. i fail. nmind.

anyway what I usually do is just write what i have in mind and add on. edit. top to bottom, bottom to top until i'm happy with my work.
HAWK
08-23-2007, 10:54 PM
It just all comes out. Then I give it a read through to check for spelling and grammar and I'm good to go.
samwoodfin
08-23-2007, 11:19 PM
Outlines is teh suck.
t(-.-t)
08-23-2007, 11:56 PM
stream of...consciousness

(i only post from the bathroom on my internet connected toilet)
Dan Schulz
08-24-2007, 12:28 AM
I knew it! You DO work for Google!
jlee
08-27-2007, 01:45 AM
I write as it comes. I try to organize it after I read it and move things around if it doesn't flow like I want to but sometimes I'm too lazy to do that!
davemcnally
08-27-2007, 02:25 AM
I generally try to write as I have the thought. I would probably go through and sort any mistakes and space things out after.
dojo
08-30-2007, 03:13 PM
I don't quite plan my writing, although I should ... I write as I think about the topic too
rodaniel
08-31-2007, 12:57 AM
Mostly I write as it comes, but often I have a rough outline in mind or at least kind of a loose notion of the key points that might translate into paragraphs.

Slightly off-topic, I am finding that I break articles into more paragraphs now than I used to. Back in school, there was nothing odd or wrong with a paragraph that ran 6-8 (or more) sentences long. But when blogging, that seems monstrously long. Anybody else notice this?
samwoodfin
08-31-2007, 02:21 AM
OMHG! I just did a blogchain thing, where one person posts, the next person reads that post, then writes a post begun from something they read on the other post, and it all goes very, very quickly! There's no damned time for outlines, and frankly, there's very little time to think. It's scary! And kind of a rush, once you're done. And one hell of a lesson, if you want to start writing quickly...

Sorry if this doesn't quite fit here. I think it does, but I'm kind of wound up.
ses5909
08-31-2007, 07:17 AM
An outline definitely wouldn't work in that case Sam!
Dan Grossman
08-31-2007, 07:28 AM
I just start writing into the WordPress text box.

Half an hour later, I'll have written something I'm happy with posting, and accidentally click a link, hit the back button, or my wireless connection will have disappeared.

So I'll lose what I wrote and have to write it again. It usually comes out better the second time anyway.
ses5909
08-31-2007, 07:56 AM
So I'll lose what I wrote and have to write it again. It usually comes out better the second time anyway.


Let me just say i HATE that. It doesn't happen to me with new versions of Wordpress though because it saves them as I type them.
rodaniel
08-31-2007, 12:44 PM
Yea, that sucks, Dan. That's one of the reasons I mostly compose off-line. And I always do a Ctrl-A, Ctrl-Insert (Sorry, I'm an old WordPerfect hack and still use those ancient cut/copy/paste shortcuts) before I click the Submit button on a comment or post so I have my text in the paste buffer if things go south. Been bitten by that nasty way too many times!