That’s it exactly – social events with rules are so much easier.

It’s also why School was easier than University, and why working under someone who tells you what you need to be doing is so much easier than working under your own steam. For me, at least.

As for how I work on this blog, it’s a little of both the things you mention. WordPress is great in that you can jot down the title and outline of an article when it occurs to you, and then come back to it days, weeks or even months later and pick it up. Some topics I do think about way ahead of time, and I have a bunch of unwritten articles that are about how the more generic things affect me. I guess about one article a week gets written from one of these stubs. The others are more spontaneous, and tend to get created in response to what’s going around in my head that day.
One things for sure – I don’t keep a mental list of topics – I would find that impossible. I often have enough trouble remembering a topic that has occurred to me when I was a way from a computer – my working memory is very short term, and I haven’t found a mechanism for pushing things forcibly into a longer-term memory.

Do you have a mental list of topics to blog about that you are working your way through, or do you just blog about whatever occurs to you?