My hope is that I can stand by the night’s I’m trying to set aside for this, although the truth is – the best posts I put up (in my mind) come from the times when I’m away, working out and about in regional /remote WA. I’m free to be creative with my own thoughts I guess.

We’ll see – I will say that I have taken to keeping a ‘writers diary’, to do exactly what you’ve mentioned, basically to help trap some of the ideas that pop into my head… I use snippets of conversations I might have heard; cut out newspaper and magazine clippings; draw little diagrams or doodles; basically try in as many different ways possible (that works for me) to capture a thread, so I can work at it another time. This method works fantastically for me, anything other than JUST trying to write it down.

Cheers GL – good to hear others suffer from this ‘bloggers block’ too

I’ve also found that how-to-do-it posts also draw lots of traffic.

Obscure stuff like: “How to change the screen resolution on a Toshiba Portege running Ubuntu”

actually draws lots of visitors.