My Backup Posts – Well Almost

August 17, 2007

I’ve heard a number of bloggers complaining that they are experiencing writer’s block, and I truly sympathize with them. However in my case, I have diarrhea of the brain. I can’t stop what is coming out of it, and the best I can do is just try to get it all down somewhere.

Of course, and idea isn’t a finished product, and that is where my problem lies. I have a huge number of posts that I need to just go ahead and write. Some of them require a whole bunch of work, and I should get started on them, some of them don’t require much of anything, but it seems like anytime I sit down to get a post going, I end up with a series of post snippets.

I use Microsoft OneNote for my note taking, because it is really easy to keep notebooks on several computers synchronized with a thumb drive, you can keep particular sections private, and it works well with graphics and text layout. The notebooks are even available to you when you don’t have the thumb drive handy, like when you forget it at home. This way not only can I keep the notes related to my personal life, but I can also keep all of my work notes, as well as reference and reading materials, all in a handy, organized fashion.

Yes, there was a whole series of post ideas around OneNote, but that isn’t why I mention it.

There is a toolbar in OneNote that shows you the pages that are within a section. The picture on the left is the page listing of the “Misc Posts” section of one of my notebooks. These are all partial posts or post ideas, that I just haven’t gotten around to finishing.

I know that if I just keep working on these, that I am going to hit a point where I have more finished posts than I know what to do with. Well, I’ll know what to do with them, I’ll post them. Relax, it was just a figure of speech.

Before I took the screen shot, I sized the window so that you couldn’t see the entire title of the pages, I didn’t want to give away any spoilers. I also didn’t want to change the title, and have someone ask “What happened to the how to catch a monkey post?”.

OK, back to working on one of my posts.

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