Hi Toni – thanks for your reply to my comment!
Yes – I get your point: there’s no point setting arbitrary goals about how often to blog…you might just end up posting crap for the sake of it.

However, I see it more as a temporary experiment for me, basically to get into the habit of writing more regularly. I’m quite an anxious blogger, I tend to find myself mulling over every sentence; it takes me a long time to write a post. I’d like to be able to let go of this need for ‘perfection’ (there’s no such thing!) a little and blog more like I comment. I don’t have the same compulsive need to edit and re-edit comments I write on other people’s blogs… so I’d like to be able to write blog posts the same way I write comments.

Some have suggested reposting comments as blog posts, which I might also experiment with too. I think you’d still need to add a bit of context around it, as some of this would just be lost if you copied and pasted a blog comment entirely from the original blog post.

Rhizo14 also moves so fast, and there are so many awesome posts being written; I think it’s a perfect opportunity to get down some ‘half baked thoughts’ / thoughts-in-progress to try to make sense of it as you go – as I’m feeling at times like I’m going a bit mad. Getting thoughts down on paper – even if they don’t entirely make perfect sense yet, is a way to mitigate the madness a bit. This, as I understand it, is why Maha blogs regularly – just to release some of those half formed thoughts so that she can play with them a bit more, and others can add their input (…and probably to make room for more….!)