I'm still a believer in “writing in your head.” Certainly you should always write down ideas, thoughts, etc. and circle back on them later.

But once you have an idea fully formed in your mind for a blog post you're not forgetting it. Now you want it to percolate; you want to think through the ideas, come up with headline possibilities, intros, etc. You won't fully flesh out an entire blog post in your head, but if you have an idea that's so easily forgotten, I'm not sure it's worth writing in the first place.

Plus, I don't want to spend hours at the computer writing. I want to sit, write, tweak, edit, and publish. So I still believe in structuring things in my head, strategizing an approach to a blog post (or anything) before hacking away at it.

Thoughts?

I’m still a believer in “writing in your head.” Certainly you should always write down ideas, thoughts, etc. and circle back on them later.

But once you have an idea fully formed in your mind for a blog post you’re not forgetting it. Now you want it to percolate; you want to think through the ideas, come up with headline possibilities, intros, etc. You won’t fully flesh out an entire blog post in your head, but if you have an idea that’s so easily forgotten, I’m not sure it’s worth writing in the first place.

Plus, I don’t want to spend hours at the computer writing. I want to sit, write, tweak, edit, and publish. So I still believe in structuring things in my head, strategizing an approach to a blog post (or anything) before hacking away at it.

Thoughts?

No, no, no. Write it down. Even if it's stream-of-consciousness, but do whatever you have to do to get it out of your head, because if you don't you run the risk of losing it. The main point of Getting Things Done is to stop stressing yourself out because you are trying to remember too much. Capture it in a trusted system for review and action later.

No, no, no. Write it down. Even if it’s stream-of-consciousness, but do whatever you have to do to get it out of your head, because if you don’t you run the risk of losing it. The main point of Getting Things Done is to stop stressing yourself out because you are trying to remember too much. Capture it in a trusted system for review and action later.

I did a Be original project on the same lines. I have created a “101 ways to create original blog posts” from a list of more than 25 participants. I think you and the readers here would be interested since your post is on the same lines.