If your blogging software supports categories, you should be using it to help you track what you are writing about. Divide up the world into some number of roughly equal sized buckets, and go back to each one periodically to refill it.
It's easy to get too many categories, and equally easy to have too few. The best way to manage categories is not to get too worked up about whether something is precisely in the right place; there's no way to be perfectionist about categorization and also write enough.
My preference is to create too many categories, and then to use them as memory jogging devices so that I know some large set of things that I might want to write down, even if I don't care to keep each one of them updated frequently. If you know that you are capable of publishing something useful on each of a bunch of subtopics in a weblog, then you never need be completely stumped when it's time to write. Work your way down the list until either you see something you'd like to expand upon, or until you note that something is missing that you have an idea about how to fill it.
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